Effects and scaling not working properly on Android (LG G8 Android 10)

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Hello everyone,

I started a new project and intended for it to be a mobile game. I use an LG G8 ThinQ Android 10 phone with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio with a resolution of 3120 x 1440. I test the game mainly on my PC with a 1440 x 900 monitor and a second 1920 x 1080 monitor.

My game’s resolution is at 1920 x 1080 because that’s one of the most common resolution on phones that you’ll find. When I test the game on PC it looks perfectly normal; exactly the way I want it to look. Nothing wrong at all with it. I have a CRT effect (the official layer effect from GDevelop) on my menu screen in the background and it renders perfectly when I’m testing the game on PC.

However, on my LG phone, because it isn’t 16:9, the game doesn’t scale properly. I figured that GDevelop would scale it to a degree, and it sort of did, but with some caveats. It also doesn’t render the effects properly either.

Here’s my game’s UI and effects present on PC:

1412×808 468 KB

1418×813 111 KB

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Screenshot_11412×798 359 KB

But here it is on my Android phone:

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Screenshot_20200715-211620%5B1%5D3120×1440 328 KB

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Screenshot_20200715-211944%5B1%5D3120×1440 297 KB

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Screenshot_20200715-214056%5B1%5D3120×1440 90.8 KB

On PC everything is working flawlessly. On Android, the game doesn’t stretch to fit my taller aspect ratio. And it somewhat renders the CRT effect on screen but it’s nearly impossible to see, the difference between the PC version is dramatic.

Any ways I can make my CRT effect look the same on Android? Any ways I can scale my UI on Android to fit the whole screen rather than just a 16:9 screen?

Thanks!

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For the UI you can use the anchor behavior. For the layer effect it sounds like some sort of bug or misconception.

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How do I set it up to scale properly? I added it to my sprint button (the right button) and my dpad buttons and played around with it to see how to set it up and i have no clue what I’m supposed to be setting to get it to anchor to the right side.

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For me I usually fiddle around with the behavior option until it scales like I want it to

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Well good news is that I played around with it for a bit and it finally scales the way I want it to. Works great now. But the static CRT effect still is the same way after a few modifications to it and I tried adding haptic feedback to my game when you press a menu button but when you press it, the phone doesn’t vibrate.

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Unfortunately, not all layer effects are fully functional on Android. It’s possible that CRT is one of them.