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Offline MichaelJPCT

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can framebuffer be smaller than sceen?
« on: September 03, 2016, 06:16:01 pm »
i have an idea that i want to keep the game window's aspect ratio, for example 16:9, while the screen of device is usually not accurately 16:9.
can i have a framebuffer smaller than the screen and keep some black margins around the framebuffer?

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Re: can framebuffer be smaller than sceen?
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2016, 09:09:44 pm »
I think it can, but I'm not sure that would be displayed. It might be a better idea to render into a NPOT-texture and blit that instead.

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Re: can framebuffer be smaller than sceen?
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2016, 02:01:51 am »
i tried creating a smaller framebuffer , the app just couldn't start.
so your suggested way may be the only way.