Changing how fullscreen works

UI
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Howdy!

I’ve been kicking around the idea of attempting to change how fullscreen displays.

Lets say the user’s native aspect ratio is 16:9. If they select a resolution that is 4:3, then go full screen, it will be stretched somewhat to fit the 16:9 screen.

Is there any way I could go about changing this? I’d rather it display the resolution naturally (no stretching/skewing to full the entire screen) and then just fill in the extra space with black (or possibly some selectable color).

(I guess another question would be: would this be desirable? Would you, as a user, rather your fullscreen to not distort resolution and instead fill in non-used space with black? Or, would this simply be annoying?)

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Hi, welcome to the forum!

If you are talking purely about GUI, then it should be no problem to make the controls appear in a rectangle in the centre of the screen. The easiest way to do this is to put everything inside a group and then reposition the group depending on the resolution.

The aspect ratio should not be a problem for the main game scene since it is taken into account when calculating the cameras’ fields of view.