Hi everyone. I’m just starting out, reading ‘Programming in Lua’ right now actually, and have a really basic question that I can’t seem to find in a simple Google search. My question is: hypothetically, if i were making a basketball game, and drew a basketball that I wanted in that game, would I draw the basketball on a large scale and then resize it when putting it in the game or just draw it the size I want it to be in the beginning? Basic I know, but I’m just starting out, and thank you for any replies. [import]uid: 55691 topic_id: 10811 reply_id: 310811[/import]
I’d say if you want it for iPad and iPhone/iPod do it at the large size for iPad and halve the x & y for iPhone and that should do. It’ll be a little bigger but faster. [import]uid: 10389 topic_id: 10811 reply_id: 39271[/import]
Hi,
From what i have understood so far, there are two aspects to this: 1) content scaling and 2) image resolution
- http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/11/content-scaling-made-easy/
- http://blog.anscamobile.com/2011/01/dynamic-image-resolution-made-easy/
A common recommendation that i have come across form the posts is that creating for 320*480 and then supplying @2x graphics for larger screens will do the trick.
in essence you can scale either ways. your config.lua will define the default stage size used by your app. scaling up with higher resolution graphics works better from a memory standpoint.
open to corrections in my understanding here.
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I would always draw something as large as I could that way you can then scale things down to whatever size you want later while still having the original to work from or even use in large marketing materials later on. [import]uid: 5833 topic_id: 10811 reply_id: 39317[/import]
sorry for the delay, after posting this i went on a roadtrip. Just wanted to stop by and say thanks to everyone that started. I sort of had an idea, but wanted to make sure.
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