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Attract-Mode Support => Themes => Topic started by: Leonardo Physicist on December 08, 2019, 04:05:06 PM

Title: Default layouts with arbitrary resolution
Post by: Leonardo Physicist on December 08, 2019, 04:05:06 PM
I love Attractmode and its themes, but most o them are specific to 4:3 or 5:4 resolutions.

To make Attractmode more inclusive I'm making all default layouts resolution free. Just type your resolution on the theme customization menu and everything re-scales and re-positions to look fine on your screen.

At the moment, only Orbit is done. I'll update the post as I adapt the others.


I hope this helps other makers to make their themes resolution free. Free the resolutions!!! 8)

Obviously I didn't tested every single possible resolution, so any bugs or miss positions/scales post down below.

Regards.
Title: Re: Default layouts with arbitrary resolution
Post by: Leonardo Physicist on December 08, 2019, 04:11:10 PM
In bigger resolutions things don't need to be as big to look fine.
If you think like me, the following version scales logarithmically with the resolution (instead of linearly)


All the best
Title: Re: Default layouts with arbitrary resolution
Post by: bionictoothpick on December 08, 2019, 04:54:00 PM
Interesting. Screen shot for 9:16 4k?
Title: Re: Default layouts with arbitrary resolution
Post by: keilmillerjr on December 08, 2019, 06:27:18 PM
I make my theme based on percentages. Its resolution, aspect and orientation independent. Not sure why more people don't go with a similar approach.
Title: Re: Default layouts with arbitrary resolution
Post by: dmmarti on December 09, 2019, 05:55:59 AM
All of the themes I create are geared for a 16x9 resolution.  I don't have anyway to test/create for 4x3/5x4 resolutions.

I also use percentages within the layout.nut file to keep things properly scaled.
Title: Re: Default layouts with arbitrary resolution
Post by: Yaron2019 on December 09, 2019, 09:07:25 AM
Quote from: Leonardo Physicist on December 08, 2019, 04:05:06 PM
I love Attractmode and its themes, but most o them are specific to 4:3 or 5:4 resolutions.

To make Attractmode more inclusive I'm making all default layouts resolution free. Just type your resolution on the theme customization menu and everything re-scales and re-positions to look fine on your screen.

At the moment, only Orbit is done. I'll update the post as I adapt the others.

  • Orbit - https://mega.nz/#!QEVy0C4C!rGjN1MMQAsCJzA23P6nXMmdDcp8D92mQWLskPEaxgXY

I hope this helps other makers to make their themes resolution free. Free the resolutions!!! 8)

Obviously I didn't tested every single possible resolution, so any bugs or miss positions/scales post down below.

Regards.

Awesome! I want to adapt my themes (At-The-Arcade and Vintage-DOS) to be resolution free. What parts of the code from the code you released should I use?
Title: Re: Default layouts with arbitrary resolution
Post by: keilmillerjr on December 09, 2019, 10:11:18 AM
Quote from: dmmarti on December 09, 2019, 05:55:59 AM
All of the themes I create are geared for a 16x9 resolution.  I don't have anyway to test/create for 4x3/5x4 resolutions.

I also use percentages within the layout.nut file to keep things properly scaled.

Yes, you do. Change mode to window no border and edit position/size in window.am file.
Title: Re: Default layouts with arbitrary resolution
Post by: sosimple on December 10, 2019, 05:29:43 AM
First time I tried attract mode, I rejected it because almost no theme was working in the not very mainstream resolution of my galaxy book..
Months later I gave attract mode a second chance,  finding out that by changing the resolution in the code, almost every theme was working, and scaled perfectly in full screen..