Mobile Orientation

Questions & Answers
1

I couldn’t find an answer searching online, so I’ll ask here.

How can I get the game view in the editor to emulate what an actual phone will look like? When I change the aspect ratio of the camera to 9:16 from 16:9, it just cuts off either side so that the camera is actually viewing less. What I want it to do is act as if I’m rotating the camera so that it’s the same size, just a different orientation. How can I get that to work?

I have to increase the size of the camera by 1.77778 to get the size I want. Would I have to do the same thing for the actual mobile build?

2

You have to fix the screen for all views. Try the new Unity UI link text

or a third party plugin like NGUI

3

Just in case you don’t already do this you can set the aspect ratio of your game from the game view and even add your own:

39440-aspect.png

But if you just want to change values, which you probably will for all sorts of things you can check the Orientation like this:

if(Input.deviceOrientation == DeviceOrientation.LandscapeLeft || 
     Input.deviceOrientation == DeviceOrientation.LandscapeRight)
{
     // do landscape stuff here
}
else if if(Input.deviceOrientation == DeviceOrientation.Portrait || 
     Input.deviceOrientation == DeviceOrientation.PortraitUpsideDown)
{
    // do portrait studff here
}

Or you could simplify by checking is Screen.height > Screen.width and set a bool to set the mode yourself:

private bool AmIportrait;

if(Screen.height > Screen,width)
{
    AmIportrait = true;
}
else
{
    AmIprotrait = false;
}

if(AmIprotrait)
{
    // Do stuff here
}