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User Interface resolution and resizing

by Dumbledore · in Torque Game Engine · 06/21/2008 (8:37 am) · 3 replies

Does anyone know about a tut that runs you through how to create a dynamic U.I. so that different resolutions will not blow it up to a thousand unwieldy proportions?

Thanks so much if you can help with this!
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Torque Owner Dumbledore
#1
06/21/2008 (9:56 am)
Here is my heirarchy:

Super width, height
-----Container relative, height (the width is 500 on a 1280 x 1024)
------------Child relative, relative

What happens is: if i switch res from 1280x1024 to 800x600 it resizes as I expect, very nicely.

From 800x600 back to 1280x1024 is not so nice. Everything becomes grossly large. My prognosis: it is using the ratio of extents of the Container and Super in 800 x 600 mode to do the relative resizing of the Child in 1280 x 1024 mode. I think I could fix this by forcing it to first go back to the original form (not that I'd know how to do that off hand) then do the appropriate resize. So every time you change your resolution it first goes back to the original 1280x1024 so that everything is sized correctly, then it applies the relative size ratios for the desired resolution and voila.


What am I missing here?

Torque Owner Andy Rollins
ZDay Game
#2
06/22/2008 (2:24 pm)
As mentioned on another thread you created, please use the search before posting as there's plenty of articles, details on TDN, etc that cover this topic already.

Torque Owner Dumbledore
#3
06/22/2008 (4:00 pm)
Could you give an example of one that helps with this particular issue? Thanks.