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• MaaS

  April 2015

  Are you working on 2D?
  
  I suppose you are scaling the view (camera ortho size) to fill the native height without letterboxing.
  
  But I would use the same limits and scale until the width fill the render window, instead of height. That way, with the same width you can use only one camera min/max. If you want you could use horizontal black bars for 4:3, use that space for your inventory or... like a safe frame, just have more not meaningful room/background.
  
  If you need to change the camera min/max, I think you could use different cameras each own with its limits, but you can't ask the aspect ratio through actionlist so it can't be dynamically setup without code.
  
• Rocco

  April 2015

  MaaS, I am working in a 2D environment.

  
  

  So, to clarify, you want me to scale the orthographic size property on the camera until the min and max work for both?

  
  

  I guess the other thing I could do is create a custom action that checks the Aspect Ratio and then have it so that you can pass in a Min and Max to the Action. I could have that action run OnStart and set the Min and Max depending on the Aspect Ratio.

  
  

  Of course that all depends on whether that is accessible or not through code.
• ChrisIceBox

  April 2015 edited April 2015

  @Rocco, if you're forcing the aspect ratio in the Settings Manager, you can retrieve it, and set it, through script with:
  
  AC.KickStarter.settingsManager.wantedAspectRatio
  
  If your game's resolution gives you a different aspect ratio to the one supplied here, borders will appear as appropriate.  If you want to have an "aspect ratio" setting in e.g. an Options menu, take a look at this tutorial.  That method involves linking your custom option to a global variable - checking it's value would be easier to do in ActionLists.  You might want to have a pair of navigation cameras, and set the correct camera based on the variable's value.