Fixed size of Background picture

[hermitbab]

Hi guys,

Thanks for taking your time.

I'm working on a mobile game and want to release it on iPhones.  So I have problem with the screen size, I've searched the forum and couldn't find the answer.

I have a picture with 1136*640 and want to show it perfectly as background without scaling on iphone5 but can be cut on both sides when is shown on iphone4.  I've tried perfect size on UIRoot, as well as fixed size, but when it shows perfectly on iphone5, it just couldn't cut the sides on iphone4, which means it just shrinks and the picture is scaling.  On the other hand, when it cuts the sides on iphone4, it also cuts the sides on iphone5 and scaling the picture.  It is strange that in unity game view, it show's perfect and the problem can only occur on real machine, which is painful.

Can any buddy here help?  Thanks a lot!  I'm using landscape left.

[ArenMook]

Anchor the widget's top and bottom, leaving left and right not anchored. Give it an aspect ratio of 1.775, and that should be it.

[hermitbab]

Anchor the widget's top and bottom, leaving left and right not anchored. Give it an aspect ratio of 1.775, and that should be it.

Thank you very much for such quick reply.  I use a sprite to show the picture as background and I can see the anchor on the inspector of the sprite.  When you say leave left and right not anchored, could you please be more specific that what value I should set to them?

No I'm using the Unified type of the anchor and there are five options for left and right: Target's left, Target's right, Target's center, Custom and set to current position.

Thank you in advance!

[hkessock]

For something as simple as a background image (I do this for a splashscreen) you can simply create your NGUI UITexture to your default target size (I use the iPad4's resolution of 2048x1536) and scale your NGUI Texture game object with the scale using something like this:

1. public static Vector3 ComputeScaleFor3D()
2. {
3.         double l_nWidthScale = (double)Screen.width / (double)m_nGUITargetResolutionWidth;
4.         double l_nHeightScale = (double)Screen.height / (double)m_nGUITargetResolutionHeight;
5.         float l_nScaleBy = 0.0f;
6.  
7.         if( l_nWidthScale < l_nHeightScale )
8.         {
9.                 l_nScaleBy = (float)l_nWidthScale;
10.         }
11.         else
12.         {
13.                 //Equivalent falls through to here also
14.                 l_nScaleBy = (float)l_nHeightScale;
15.         }
16.  
17.         return new Vector3( l_nScaleBy, l_nScaleBy, 1.0f );
18. }
19.  

In my case, as I mentioned, my target width is 2048 and my target height is 1536 since I default to iPad 4.

I use this method to scale my splash screen, my dialogs, all of my NGUI components.

Of course, this is my first day with NGUI, and there are other ways to do this as well.

[ArenMook]

@hermitbab: You need to use the Advanced anchor type.