Working with Resolution independence

The_Gamesalad_Guru

OKay, so since all my Apps I've produced are Ipad apps, How do I work with retina display. I rarely use a full size image one that covers the entire area of the screen. Would I change the scene size to the higher retina resolution or does it stay at the normal 480X320? Would some be so kind as to give a cliff notes explanation of it all.

HoneyTribeStudios

You work at 480x320 inside GS. So all your actor positions/sizes etc are based on the normal non-retina screen size.

Then just import images that are 960x640 and tick resolution independence. That's it.

beefy_clyro

The design stays the same within the game salad creator.
You tick the RI tick box.
Design your art double what it would be for non-retina.
A background that takes up the whole screen estate is 480 x 320, so the RI art needs to be 960 x 320.
When you import into GS, it automatically halves the size for you. So you drag in your 960 x 640 art and GS automatically makes the actor 480 x 320.
Make sure all art when divided by 2 end on an even number. e.g. 80 x 20 = 40 x 10 .... 87 x 20 = 43.5 x 10 - GS will blur the image.
When published, it creates a new set of images at half the size, if its a retina phone it uses the large images, if not it uses the smaller set to save RAM.

Pretty much all there is to it in a nutshell.

A lot of people design this way and then just convert the retina iPhone version to iPad dimensions and use that as there isn't much in it.

EDIT: Seems I'm a little slower than HTS

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Ah, I get it so all art should be double the size I want no matter the dimensions. Thanx.

beefy_clyro

Every actor that you use must have double the size art to it. So if you have an actor that you use at say 50 x 70, the art will need to be 100 x 140

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@beefyclyro Thanx!