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questions about “How to make a 3D platformer in Godot in 8 minutes” tutorial at Youtube

nitrofurano

thanks, such information is great - but how can we, for example, have different text sizes in different resolutions, like having text size 64 in 1920x1080, and the same using size 32 in 960x540, and proportionally in all other resolutions, even custom ones like 976x549 (on gnu/linux and bsd, x11 modelines and xrandr scaling allows that), etc.? i'm asking because i can't find "scale" in both webpages...

nitrofurano

this is what i have now:

1920x1080: https://i.postimg.cc/hjbR3mL1/2-1920x1080.png

2560x1440: https://i.postimg.cc/vGpC6PLr/3-2560x1440.png

1280x720: https://i.postimg.cc/gJ0HfFRt/1-1280x720.png

my main focus was on resizing the whole hud, fitting everything on the canvas proportionally, not merely responsive alignments.... (i guess it's possible and simple on Godot?)

nitrofurano

so i guess that we can only have that working from gdscript, like getting the screen dimension, and resizing/positioning all hud elements accordingly? i found this info, i don't know how useful it can be: https://godotengine.org/qa/234/how-to-get-the-screen-dimensions-in-gdscript

nitrofurano

perhaps from here as well? https://godotengine.org/qa/10302/set-font-size-of-label-via-script

cybereality

The font size is fixed when you create a dynamic font. So it will stay the same size in pixels regardless of the size of the window. You can adjust the size of the UI using containers that will be responsive, but I'm not sure you can change the text size. You may be able to create 3 different dynamic fonts (like a small, medium, and large) and then swap them, but I haven't tried it.

nitrofurano

i'm seeing that containers might be helpful for fitting some hud elements proportionally, and perhaps we might be able to change the text size with some code into "func _ready()" - for what i'm targeting, the goal is being able to have those 3 screenshots above looking exactly the same, or at least very close - the issue i'm seeing is that 3 typeface sizes are far not enough when we have screen sizes that might vary by few pixel units, and considering how easily we can create lots of different display resolutions merely by creating modelines or xrandr scaling - a great reference for me about scalable opengl games are Kenta Cho's ones (i really recommend playing all of them from him, truly amazing imho), the font sizes there get really proportional, and the "responsivety" on different proportions (like 5x4 and 64x27, instead of 16x9, 8x5 or 3x4, and vertically as well, is truly great as well)

cybereality

In GDScript, you can use "add_font_override()" to change the font settings dynamically.

So something like this:

var font = $YourControlNode.get_font("string_name", "")
font.size = 20
$YourControlNode.add_font_override("string_name", font)

nitrofurano

thanks, all of this information will help a lot, soon i'm going to try it (seems simple: calculate the proportion from the display size, and resize and position everything accordingly ) just in advance, for some idea, what i'm trying to do is something like this: https://i.postimg.cc/YSkRRZMx/formats.png https://postimg.cc/fV2YTH33

(see that these display resolutions are examples only, a very small sample - the available display resolutions are almost "infinite"! :D )

(i didn't know that small edits in a previous message in this forum erases "likes", sorry about)

nitrofurano

inside func _ready(): i'm trying this:

get_node("/root/World/labels/Label1").get("custom_fonts/font").set_size((get_viewport().size.y)/8.4375)
if (get_viewport().size.x)/(get_viewport().size.y)<1.77777:
  get_node("/root/World/labels/Label1").get("custom_fonts/font").set_size((get_viewport().size.x)/15)

something seems wrong there...

both (get_viewport().size.y)/8.4375 and (get_viewport().size.x)/15 returns 128 when resolution is 1920x1080 - but when we have that third line (after if) uncomented, the text gets half of the size (64 instead of 128) - really weird...

nitrofurano

i think i fixed with this (perhaps we shouldn't access get_node twice for some reason?)

  typefacesize=(get_viewport().size.y)/8.4375
  if (get_viewport().size.x)/(get_viewport().size.y)<1.77777:
    typefacesize=(get_viewport().size.x)/15
  get_node("/root/World/labels/Label1").get("custom_fonts/font").set_size(typefacesize)

nitrofurano

(it's difficult to paste code in this forum! :D )

cybereality

For the forum, don't use the code button, it rarely works.

Just paste the code into the text window and type:

On the lines above and below the code (this is markdown). That works well.

nitrofurano

thanks! :)

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