Setting game window resolution, bigger than desktop resolution?

Unity Engine
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Hi
Like the title says I want to set the game resolution higher than the desktop resolution,
I want the game window to be bigger than the monitor.

This is because i want to take a large screenshot of the Gui in the game.

Any way of doing this? ForceSetResolution?? :slight_smile:

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Anyone? please I need this…

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you can but you must start it in windowed mode. Fullscreen can only have the size of the primary screen

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If you have Unity Pro, you could render into a 2048x2048 RenderTexture and save it out.

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As it is for a large screenshot:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/6465-large-screenshots-for-print

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Nope not working, I do start in windowed mode with a small 400x400 window, then resize it in game to 3000x3000. it only expands to the borders of the screen.

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A far as I know that does not work for the GUI…

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I noticed you said GUI in your fist inquiry -

but if you made a really big display - wouldn’t your GUI elements tend to look… really small?
Wouldnt GUI elements tend to have a fixed resolution with relative/normalized positioning on the screen, and either be scalable downward but not be of much benefit to scale upward?

(Is making a big snapshot and then pasting/photoshopping the GUI elements in place considered cheating?)

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Hi
The GUI elements are not of fixed resolution, they are set to percentages of the game window.
I want to take a large screenshot because users set up the GUI elements to show specific info in game, and then want to take a screenshot, to be able to print the thing, and for the print to be of high quality I need the window to be large. and not care about the moniter size.

Thanks

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ok -
well, since it is about the GUI maybe going back to the idea of a running a standalone app in a window - but as noted you cannot make the window bigger than the desktop - but what about a scrolling virtual desktop?

Don’t know if you are on a mac or a PC, and my memory was that PCs used to have a builtin setting for scrolling a higher res desktop, but I don’t see it now. I did a quick search and found there are utilities such as “GiMeSpace” that will make a scrolling desktop 16000 pixels wide and tall, but I have not tried or determined if there are better ones, but that might be one way to do it by taking screenshots and then stitching them together.

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Yes that would make it possible for me, but for users it should be somehow build in, hmm, guess it is not possible :s