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Questions regarding the "Universal Apps" Tutorial

by Maritn · in iTorque 2D · 04/11/2012 (1:49 am) · 3 replies

I've gone through the "Universal Apps" tutorial, but there are still some questions left.

1. For iPad and iPhone4, "_hd" images are used. Why do they not have to be added to the level datablocks? I thought that every image has to be added.

2. Again "_hd" images: they are used for both iPad & iPhone4, right? But how can this work? The aspect ration of an iPad is 1.33, while an iPhone4 has 1.5. One of those devices will always have the wrong ratio for the "_hd"-images.
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Employee Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#1
04/12/2012 (6:44 am)
1. It was requested that the solution be automated, meaning you only have to provide the _hd image and enable the flag on the datablock. So I made the change in the source code to look for _hd if the file exists, the flag is enabled and the device is higher resolution than 480x320.

2. You are correct that there is a slight aspect ratio difference between iPad and the non-tablet devices. One of our artists brought it up last week and I am considering different options to resolve this.

Torque Owner Scott Wilson-Billing
MeYuMe
#2
04/12/2012 (7:13 am)
This is the part I never really understood with the 1.5 solution- the aspect ratio, which is why we went for a custom solution.

We detect the device type and set a variable $DEVICE_TYPE to

- blank ""
- "@X2"
- "@X3"

The image name is then:

"/images/some-image" @ $DEVICE_TYPE

You then supply the artwork:

some-image.png
some-image@X2.png
some-image@X3.png

Maritn
Default Studio Name
#3
04/13/2012 (1:23 pm)
Thanks for the answers!
@Scott: Yeah, that sounds like a great idea, I'll do it like that as well.