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Game don't fit in screen

skillking043skillking043 The NetherlandsPosts: 2Member
in Unity on OUYA
Hi, 
I am currently developing an FPS Shooter for the OUYA but I have a problem.
The game don't fit in screen. So the resulution is to big or something. I've googled and no one have this problem. I don't now how to fix this. I have tried it on 2 tv's and it happend too on that other.
Here some pics to show you what i mean.
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Can someone help me with this.


S Games Studios
Developer of Dead Silence (Modern FPS for OUYA)

Comments

  • Killa_MaakiKilla_Maaki Posts: 504Member
    edited August 2013
    This is called overscan. Many TVs don't display the whole signal, opting to crop out anywhere up to 5% of the image off of each edge.

    You'll want to pull your UI away from the screen edges at least 5% on each side. This is also required in order to submit your game (they will check your game against the so-called "safe zone", the area in the center of the screen that won't be cropped, to make sure important graphics and UI are not going to be cropped by the TV)

    This is actually a very common problem, and if you take a look at a screenshot for any Xbox game you may notice the UI doesn't reach the screen edge (take Reach's HUD for example). I'll make an example shortly...

    EDIT: Here's a really good example of overscan in a game
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    Notice that all of the important UI elements (remaining lives, coins, score, time, etc) are pulled away from the screen edge 5%. Some of the elements bleed into the unsafe zone (the red border) but they are unimportant (it's not strictly important to see the entirety of Mario's face)
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  • tgraupmanntgraupmann Posts: 2,869Administrator, Team OUYA
    edited August 2013
    There's documentation on the safe area.



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  • madmax2069madmax2069 Posts: 155Member
    Also make sure your TV is set correctly to make sure its not just the TV, most HDTVs (many 720p only TVs lack this ability) have a p.size/format/zoom button on the remote so you can adjust for this. I have a 1080p TV, I have to press my format button to select full and it correctly fits the image on the screen.

    Some TVs don't have a button for this, many have a setting in the TVs options. I seen a few devs over compensate for this which produces a black outline around the image on my TV.

    I still say that all games should have a setting in options to adjust screen size, and another setting to adjust UI elements in game (like health bar, ammo and so on).


  • skillking043skillking043 The NetherlandsPosts: 2Member
    Ok, Thanks for the comment
    S Games Studios
    Developer of Dead Silence (Modern FPS for OUYA)
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