designing for dynamic content based on screen height.

jonmulcahy

so how are all of you dealing with changing positions based on screen height? I know it's easy to handle the basic ones, i.e.:

iPad
if screen.height = '768' then
self.postion.y = 700

nook
if screen height = '600' then
self.position.y = 550

kindle
if screen.height = '580' then
self.position.y = 500

how are you planning for other resolutions, or are you even bothering?

MarkOnTheIron

Instead of making a rule for every device wouldn't be more simple to have, for example, a change attribute for the self.positionY to screen.height-50 ?

That way in my example regardless of the screen size the actor will always be 50px below the top edge of the screen.

jonmulcahy

The problem is when you have an iPad game as an iPhone one. It shrinks everything so a 100px tall actor might only show up as 50 (a guess to the scale). So it places it in the middle of the screen

MarkOnTheIron

Ah yes, you're right. Then you could try to do it with some little proportions.

For example if your baseline is a distance from top of 50px on an iPhone you can change the actor Y position to (50/320)*screen.height (or maybe it should be better to use camera size since the screen height will change from retina to non retina devices).