Letterbox mode still shows sprites over black letterboxed area

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#1

I’m not sure if this is a bug, but when I use universal scaling and am in Letterbox mode, and there are – as expected – black borders to say the left and right… then why are sprites I move there not also blacked out?

As an example, in my game Siege Towers For Two I have clouds moving from left to right, so they will naturally overlap the edges. But I don’t want this to be visible on Letterboxed devices.

Is it possible to make Letterbox truly black out these areas? What to do? Thanks for any help!

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#2

I don’t think that is a bug as far as I’m aware, but it most definitely annoying :smiley:

One way around that issue is to create two black rectangles inserted above all the other objects in the stage and position them just off the screen either side.

Its a bit of pain having to create them, but it fixes the issue. [import]uid: 69826 topic_id: 23993 reply_id: 96647[/import]

#3

Thanks, gotcha. [import]uid: 10284 topic_id: 23993 reply_id: 96655[/import]