I making a 2D game in unity. And I want to make my game responsive to different resolutions, and when I use Canvas Scaler all my UI objects become very bigger.
if you can help please response.
thank you!
Designing UI for Multiple Resolutions
1. Using anchors to adapt to different aspect ratios
One way to keep buttons inside the screen is to anchor them to their respective corners,
One way to keep the buttons inside the screen is to change the layout such that the locations of the buttons are tied to their respective corners of the screen.
Once the buttons have been anchored to their respective corners, they stick to them when changing the resolution to a different aspect ratio.
When the screen size is changed to a larger or smaller resolution, the buttons will also remain anchored to their respective corners. However, since they keep their original size as specified in pixels, they may take up a larger or smaller proportion of the screen.
2. Scaling with Screen Size
In the Canvas Scaler component, you can set its UI Scale Mode to Scale With Screen Size. With this scale mode you can specify a resolution to use as reference. If the current screen resolution is smaller or larger than this reference resolution, the scale factor of the Canvas is set accordingly, so all the UI elements are scaled up or down together with the screen resolution.
The layouts will appear the same in different resolutions, only with a lower pixel density depending on if you scale up or down.
One thing to be aware of: It can be possible that some element are larger in landscape aspect ratio. This can be fixed if you change the Match property to 0.5 instead, it will compare both the current width to the reference width and the current height to the reference height now.
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Unity's UI screen is different from the in-game world space.
For the UI part you can easily fix the issue of the size and position by considering the following:
First thing you need to check is the Canvas Scaler component which is automaticaly generated on your Canvas gameobject.
Canvas Scaler Example
First under The UI Scale Mode you should choose the "Scale with Screen Size" which will make UI elements bigger the bigger the screen is.
Second is the Reference Resolution which is the resolution the UI layout is designed for. If the screen resolution is larger, the UI will be scaled up, and if it's smaller, the UI will be scaled down. A good example is to set the dimensions int something like this (1920x1080) which is the most common landscape resolution.
Third is the Screen Match Mode which is a mode used to scale the canvas area if the aspect ratio of the current resolution doesn't fit the reference resolution. With other words if you change your in-game resolution this will handle your UI elements.
Fourth is Match which will determine if the scaling is using the width or height as reference, or a mix in between. So if your game is in landscape mode you should set it to 0, if it's in portrait mode you should set it to 1.
Last thing to keep in mind that will affect your UI elements position is the Anchor presets which is part of the Rect Transform component on each of your UI elements.
I'm trying to make a level select screen for my game, but when testing the game build the ui isn't scaled that well
I'm currently using the Canvas Scaler with the following settings
These settings give me..interesting results to say the least
What the result is SUPPOSED to be is this
How am I able to do this?
There a few things that you should keep in mind while building the UI for different screens.
Have a target Aspect ratio. Generally it should be 16:9 for landscape and 9:16 for Portrait.
Make sure the reference resolution is in line with your target aspect ratio.
Set the Match option of canvas scalar to 0.5 to scale evenly. If you are sure the device aspect ratio will change in only one direction then set either height or width. For example a portrait game will scale only by height if you switch from 9:16 to 9:18.(0.5 has worked always for me)
Select the aspect ratio in the game window and set the Anchors of the UI to the corner of the UI element. That way Unity will know where the element should be based on Canvas size.
Here is a video that demonstrates it
https://youtu.be/08S1VGL9afg
First of all, use some custom resolution in game view instead of Free Aspect.
Then you could try adjusting Match with Height or width to 0.5.
In some case, you have to adjust custom anchors using these little guys
If you want to absolutely preserve aspects, use this option on Image component.
I'm working on a fun project on Unity and I want to support all mobile resolutions in landscape mode. I designed everything to work in 1920:1080 resolution.
Everything works in world space, including UI elements.
What's correct way of supporting all resolutions (including weird ones like square 1:1)?
I don't want the scene to be cropped or filled with blue, all I want is my camera's viewport to be scaled to fit the device screen. I don't care if objects in the scene will get thin or fat.
To support different aspect ratios for your UI Elements, I recommend making use of the anchors that come with every RectTransform. These will ensure that the position of an element is consistent across various aspect ratios. For example, setting the anchor of an element to be left on the x axis will make the origin and pivot on the far left. This means an x position of 10 will position the element 10 units away from the far left of the element's parent. This is made easier with Anchor Presets. Although you can set every value yourself, Anchor Presets provide an easier way to anchor your UI Elements. Provided you have a RectTransform on you UI Elements, every element should have the Anchor Presets available. No need to change the width and height of your Canvas.
Aside from that the Camera should automatically resize depending on the resolution of the game view. You can test how your elements' anchoring works with different aspect resolutions by setting your game view's Aspect to free aspect, which will change the aspect ratio of the game depending on game view's width and height.
First of all, sry for my English mistakes, I'm not a native English speaker.
I'm trying to make an UI which is composed of a canvas within different gameObject, and I would like that my canvas scales to the dimension of the screen but keeps its original resolution (16x9 portrait). If it is displayed on a tablet resolution (4x3) then an image is displayed in the space that is not covered by the canvas.
But actually all I've got is a canvas which scales to every resolution, and it changes the aspect of its child (for example a square becomes a rectangle).
Thank you for showing interest in my query!
UI's are heavy beasts. Canvas in Unity have a component attached to themm called Canvas Scaler which is set by default on Constant Pixel Size. You may try to set this property on Scale With Screen Size and then specify the base resolution you want to work with (usually 1920x1080 is a console standart). This is your first step
Then, to avoid strange Image scaling, you may check the property Preserve Aspect, this way the ration of the Sprite into your Image will remain the same indepently of the ratio of the Image
Last, you may play a bit with anchors but this is another story, you should let those at plain center at the beginning and come back to it when you will feel ready
Hope that helped ;)
Your canvas should have a component called Canvas Scaler. Here it should say Constant Pixel Size, change this to Scale With Screen Size and it should lock the Canvas to be the same width / height as the screen. If you want to lock an image to a specific width/height ratio, go to the Image component on the image and check the Preserve Aspect checkbox. This way if you have a 100x100 image, the images width will always be the same as the height. If you have a 200x100 image, the images width will always be twice the height, etc etc etc.
I m working and some 2d game for mobile phones relate to chess, and I have a trouble with show board for different resolutions of mobile screens.
Here u can see how it must be on 9:16 resolution:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MFt-FtEtqkk7QWQC2oAtMBA0WAgOIV4h
And how it looks on smaller screen:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11WLYZwHEa9ijXbekzUbE5ZbjbEnjZ6Lb
How can I protect my chess board from cropping?
Answer: it depends on how you want it to look.
If you just want it to fit perfectly horizontally, you need to perform 3 steps:
Evaluate the width of the Sprite (with Sprite.bounds)
Evaluate the width of the current screen (with Screen.width and using the main Camera)
Scale the Sprite to fit the screen
If you are using UI elements, you can do the same thing but you won't need to use Camera, just scaling according to the Screen width (look for RectTransform.deltaSize to give you the size of a UI element).
If you are using UI, also consider using layout groups, they help you with fitting the content to screen size.
Anyway, in a device with small width, maybe the table will get too small and you might have to think about better options to display the board instead of just scaling with screen width.