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Newcomers AppGameKit Corner / Retina displays

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pjsmith67
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2016 22:39
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Hi, I've just started messing around with AppGameKit and I like what I see so far. I see that AppGameKit automatically scales graphics for different resolutions, however upscaling is not always the best thing.

Other development tools allow you to select different size graphics (image.png,image@2x.png, etc...) depending on the resolution. Is there an example somewhere of how to do that in AppGameKit?

Will it do it automatically or do I have to manually check resolutions then decide what size graphic to use?

Thanks!

Phil
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BatVink
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2016 08:54
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Welcome

What you need is this command...

SetIntendedDeviceSize

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Sets the size of the device you have designed all your artwork for, this allows AppGameKit to downsize the images to save memory on lower resolution devices. Note that commands such as SetSpriteAnimation that might assume image sizes must account for images that have been reduced. For example loading a 512x512 image and using SetSpriteAnimation(spr,128,128,16) should instead use SetSpriteAnimation(spr,GetImageWidth(img)/4,GetImageHeight(img)/4,16) in case the image is no longer 512 in size.
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You can probably also use GetDeviceHeight and GetDeviceWidth to check screen resolution, and then load in the appropriate media based on the results. i.e.

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pjsmith67
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2016 16:09
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Thanks guys! I know what to do now.

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