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libGDX - FitViewport doesnt scale well the stage

What I want to do is have a virtual size for my world and scale that world on the screen as much as possible without changing the aspect ratio, the FitViewport seemed like the best candidate. Thats how I intialised my viewport on the stage.
public class PlayStage extends Stage{
public static final int WIDTH = 480;
public static final int HEIGHT = 800;
private final Vector2 gravity = new Vector2(0.f, -9.8f);
private World physWorld;
public PlayStage(){
super();
OrthographicCamera camera = new OrthographicCamera();
camera.setToOrtho(false, WIDTH, HEIGHT);
setViewport(new FitViewport(WIDTH, HEIGHT, camera));
physWorld = new World(gravity, false);
Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(this);
Ball ball = new Ball(physWorld);
setKeyboardFocus(ball);
addActor(ball);
}
#Override
public void draw() {
super.draw();
}
#Override
public void act(float delta) {
super.act(delta);
physWorld.step(delta, 10, 5);
}
#Override
public void dispose() {
super.dispose();
physWorld.dispose();
}}
This is how the sprite looks when rendered (scaled too much on the x coordinate). Also I get no touch down events for my actors.

You need to update stage viewport. It's better to resize your viewport from resize method.
#Override
public void resize(int width, int height) {
stage.getViewport().update(width,height);
//stage.getViewport().update(width,height,true); // -> If you want camera to be at centre.
}

I solved it on my own, all I had to do was to update the viewport after creation like this getViewport().update(Gdx.graphics.getWidth(), Gdx.graphics.getHeight());

libgdx TiledMap not correct size

I'm trying to use a TiledMap in a test game but I'm having issues with the size. I'm using an ExtendViewport with width 160 and height 90. I guess the problem is that the tiled map is drawing using the screen size, because it's zoomed in. Do I need 2 seperate cameras for the tiled map and the rest of the game (players, enemies, ...)?
This is all of my code:
public class Main extends Game {
private OrthographicCamera camera;
private ExtendViewport viewport;
private TiledMap tiledMap;
TiledMapRenderer tiledMapRenderer;
#Override
public void create () {
camera = new OrthographicCamera(160, 90);
camera.setToOrtho(false, 160, 90);
camera.update();
viewport = new ExtendViewport(160, 90, camera);
viewport.apply();
tiledMap = new TmxMapLoader().load("map1.tmx");
tiledMapRenderer = new OrthogonalTiledMapRenderer(tiledMap);
}
#Override
public void render () {
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 1);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
camera.update();
tiledMapRenderer.setView(camera);
tiledMapRenderer.render();
}
#Override
public void resize(int width, int height) {
viewport.update(width, height, false);
}
#Override
public void dispose () {
}
}
Thanks

OrthogonalTiledMapRenderer's second parameter is unitScale. The unit scale tells the renderer how many pixels map to a single world unit. And it defaults to 1.
So in your case one pixel is equals to one unit size in tiled map. Try changing the unitScale parameter.
https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Tile-maps#rendering-tiled-maps

problems with multiple cameras and viewports in libgdx

so I am doing what is suppose to be a simple game but I think I might be complicating things. I have a camera for the GameScreen and a viewPort which follow the position of the player and when it reaches to points on the sides, the camera stops following the player and stays in one point.
This by itself works fine, but then I wanted to add the pause menu and some other features in the game, creating a hud class with its own camera and viewport as well as a Stage and a shapeRenderer.
The problem comes when I create the instance of this hud inside my gameScreen, the camera that I am looking while I am playing looks like is the hudCam, which does not follow the player and basically does not let me see the player when it reaches the edges of the screen.
This is my GameScreen Class:
public class GameScreen implements Screen {
WowInvasion game;
ScrollingBackground background;
private OrthographicCamera gameCam;
private Viewport gameViewPort;
/*
Basically I wanna keep the same sprites running while in the menu, playing and till dead
therefore, I'll have a switch statement with cases on where the games at, inside the functions needed. That way I'll keep
the game has a background for the menu and there's no need for running a second screen.
*/
public static final int MAIN_MENU = 0;
public static final int GAME = 1;
private static int state = 1; //current state. starts with MAIN_MENU //DEBUGGING GAME SCREEN
//STAGES
private GameStage gameStage; //game ui
private menuStage mainMenu; //Main menu of the game
private Hud hud;
//Resources
private TextureAtlas atlas; //for the textures most
private Skin skin; //for the styles and fonts
//Sprites
private Player player;
//Shapes
private float progressPower; //for the power to build up
private final float POWER_CHARGED = 1000; //limit to get power
private final float DECREASING_POWER = 20; //limit to get power
public GameScreen(WowInvasion game){
this.game = game;
gameCam = new OrthographicCamera();
gameCam.setToOrtho(false, WowInvasion.WIDTH, WowInvasion.HEIGHT);
gameViewPort = new StretchViewport(WowInvasion.WIDTH, WowInvasion.HEIGHT, gameCam);
progressPower = 0f;
game.wowAssetManager.loadTexturesGameScreen(); // tells our asset manger that we want to load the images set in loadImages method
game.wowAssetManager.loadSkins(); //load the needed skins
game.wowAssetManager.manager.finishLoading(); // tells the asset manager to load the images and wait until finsihed loading.
skin = game.wowAssetManager.manager.get("ui/menuSkin.json");
}
#Override
public void show() {
game.batch.setProjectionMatrix(gameCam.combined);
background = new ScrollingBackground();
atlas = game.wowAssetManager.manager.get(WowAssetManager.GAME_ATLAS); //declaring atlas
mainMenu = new menuStage(gameViewPort, game.batch, skin, game); //pass it so that we only use one batch and one same viewport
gameStage = new GameStage(gameViewPort, game.batch, skin, game);
hud = new Hud(game.batch, skin);
player = new Player(atlas.findRegion("player"), (int) gameCam.viewportWidth / 2, (int) gameCam.viewportHeight / 2);
switch(state){
case MAIN_MENU:
Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(mainMenu);
break;
case GAME:
background.setFixedSpeed(false); //does not work in here
}
}
#Override
public void render(float delta) {
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0, 0, 0, 1);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
if(state == GAME) {
background.setFixedSpeed(false);
player.update(delta, gameCam.viewportWidth, gameCam.viewportHeight); //updating player for movement
//really cheap way to charge power with velocity
if(progressPower != POWER_CHARGED) {
progressPower += Math.abs(player.getVelocity().x) + Math.abs(player.getVelocity().y);
progressPower -= DECREASING_POWER;
}
else
progressPower = POWER_CHARGED / 4;
}
mainMenu.act(Math.min(Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime(), 1 / 30f)); //updating while making sure delta won't be more than 1/30f.
gameStage.act(Math.min(Gdx.graphics.getDeltaTime(), 1 / 30f));
game.batch.begin();
background.updateAndRender(delta, game.batch); //updating scrolling background
player.draw(game.batch);
game.batch.end();
mainMenu.draw(); //draw the menu stage
gameStage.draw(); //draw the ui stage for the game
hud.getStage().draw();
hud.renderRotateMeter();
updateCamera(0, WowInvasion.WIDTH);
System.out.println(player.getPosition().x);
}
public void updateCamera(float startX, float endX){
Vector3 position = gameCam.position;
//linear interpolation : a + (b - a) * lerp
//b = player position
//a = current camera position
//lerp = interpolation factor
position.x = gameCam.position.x + (player.getPosition().x - gameCam.position.x) * .1f;
//making the camera stay when the player gets to close to the sides
if(position.x < startX) {
position.x = startX;
}
if(position.x > endX){
position.x = endX;
}
gameCam.position.set(position);
gameCam.update();
}
#Override
public void resize(int width, int height) {
gameViewPort.update(width, height);
//hud.getViewport().update(width, height);
}
#Override
public void pause() {
}
#Override
public void resume() {
}
#Override
public void hide() {
dispose();
}
#Override
public void dispose() {
mainMenu.dispose();
gameStage.dispose();
game.dispose();
hud.dispose();
}
public static void setState(int state) {
GameScreen.state = state;
}
}
And this is my HUD:
public class Hud implements Disposable{
private Stage stage;
private Viewport viewport;
Button buttonPause, buttonResume;
private OrthographicCamera hudCam;
private ShapeRenderer sp; //like a batch for shapes
public Hud(SpriteBatch sb, Skin skin){
hudCam = new OrthographicCamera();
hudCam.setToOrtho(false, WowInvasion.WIDTH, WowInvasion.HEIGHT);
viewport = new StretchViewport(WowInvasion.WIDTH, WowInvasion.HEIGHT, hudCam);
stage = new Stage(viewport, sb);
sp = new ShapeRenderer();
Table table = new Table();
table.top();
//this makes the table the size of the stage
table.setFillParent(true);
buttonPause = new Button(skin, "pause");
buttonPause.setTransform(true);
buttonPause.addListener(new ClickListener(){ //listener to handle event
#Override
public void clicked(InputEvent event, float x, float y) {
}
});
buttonResume = new Button(skin, "resume");
buttonResume.setTransform(true);
buttonResume.setScale(0.5f);
buttonResume.addListener(new ClickListener(){
#Override
public void clicked(InputEvent event, float x, float y) {
buttonResume.setVisible(false);
}
});
table.add(buttonPause);
table.row();
table.add(buttonResume);
stage.addActor(table);
}
public void renderRotateMeter(){
sp.setProjectionMatrix(hudCam.combined);
sp.begin(ShapeRenderer.ShapeType.Filled);
sp.setColor(Color.YELLOW);
sp.rect(hudCam.position.x,hudCam.position.y, WowInvasion.WIDTH / 2, 20);
sp.end();
}
public Viewport getViewport() {
return viewport;
}
public Stage getStage() {
return stage;
}
#Override
public void dispose() {
stage.dispose();
sp.dispose();
}
}
thanks in advance!
EDIT
so I tried passing the gameCam has a parameter to the hud and instead of making a new OrthographicCamera I used that one has the hudCamara as well and well, the movement with the player is perfect except now the thins from the Hud do not move at all..

It looks like you only set projectionMatrix to only HUD camera as seen in
sp.setProjectionMatrix(hudCam.combined);
Try to set it the same to other stuff outside of the HUD class prior to draw call too.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, when you involve using multiple Viewport and Camera in the game as most of the time it will be 1 Viewport matching with 1 Camera and work with another set as in your case. In draw call, you need to call apply() or apply(true) of Viewport class too to tell the system that you will draw based on which viewport thus in turn it will adhere to screen coordinate that was set up by viewport's attaching camera.
So assume you have 2 objects that needed to be called in different viewport consecutively, do it like the following code. The methods call is correct according to libgdx API but variable names are fictional.
// draw objA adhering to viewportA (thus cameraA) <-- assume it's player cam
sb.setProjectionMatrix(cameraA.combined);
viewportA.apply();
objA.draw();
// draw objB adhering to viewportB (thus cameraB) <-- assume it's HUD cam
sb.setProjectionMatrix(cameraB.combined);
viewportB.apply(true); // send in true as for HUD, we always want to center the screen
objB.draw();
In summary, 2 things to keep in mind when drawing objects that use multiple of camera and viewport in consecutive draw call.
Set projection matrix to either SpriteBatch or ShapeRenderer.
Call apply() or apply(true) of Viewport class to let it know you work with this viewport.

Libgdx: FitViewPort not working

I got image of super mario level1 (1563x224):
But when you play the game you are not seeing all the level.
These are my values:
// level1.png image size: 1563x224
// viewPort size: 300x224
public static final float LEVEL1_WIDTH = 1563f;
public static final float LEVEL1_HEIGHT = 224f;
public static final float VIEWPORT_WIDTH = 300f;
public static final float VIEWPORT_HEIGHT = 224f;
This is part of my game constructor:
_gamecam = new OrthographicCamera(ZombieGame.LEVEL1_WIDTH, ZombieGame.LEVEL1_HEIGHT); // set the world size
_viewport = new FitViewport(ZombieGame.VIEWPORT_WIDTH, ZombieGame.VIEWPORT_HEIGHT, _gamecam); // set the viewport size
_gamecam.position.set(ZombieGame.VIEWPORT_WIDTH / 2f, ZombieGame.VIEWPORT_HEIGHT / 2f, 0); // set the camera to be in the middle of the viewport
_background = new Texture("level1.png"); // load level1 (background) image
This is my render method:
#Override
public void render(float delta) {
_gamecam.update();
Gdx.gl.glClearColor(0,1,0,1);
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
_game.batch.setProjectionMatrix(_gamecam.combined);
_game.batch.begin();
_game.batch.draw(_background, 0, 0, ZombieGame.LEVEL1_WIDTH, ZombieGame.LEVEL1_HEIGHT);
_game.batch.end();
}
For some reason it seemed it's only working in these rations, when I try to change my VIEWPORT_HEIGHT or VIEWPORT_WIDTH it's shows out of my image:
view port size: 300x224 (working):
view port size: 300x100 (not working):
What am I doing wrong?

FitViewport always maintain the aspect ratio of the virtual screen size (virtual viewport), while scaling it as much as possible to fit the screen.
Pass viewportWidth and viewportHeight in constructor of OrthographicCamera not your .tmx total dimension.
_gamecam = new OrthographicCamera();
_gamecam.setToOrtho(false,ZombieGame.VIEWPORT_WIDTH,ZombieGame.VIEWPORT_HEIGHT);
_viewport = new FitViewport(ZombieGame.VIEWPORT_WIDTH, ZombieGame.VIEWPORT_HEIGHT, _gamecam);
We use viewport because it manages a Camera's viewportWidth and viewportHeight according to our ViewPort choice.
Calculate the viewport parameters and update the camera whenever resize event occurs.
#Override
public void resize(int width, int height) {
_viewport.update(width,height,true);
}

libGDX: size of object in FitViewport is distorted

My goal is to create a game that is always displayed with an aspect ratio of 9:16 (basically 16:9, but upright) using FitViewport; it should be independet of a target device's resolution. In order to test this setup, I created the following minimal working example. A small green square indicates the origin of the coordinate system:
MyGame.java
public class MyGame extends ApplicationAdapter {
final int WORLD_WIDTH = 900;
final int WORLD_HEIGHT = 1600;
Stage stage;
Viewport vp;
public void create() {
stage = new Stage();
vp = new FitViewport(WORLD_WIDTH, WORLD_HEIGHT, stage.getCamera());
stage.setViewport(vp);
stage.addActor(new MySquare());
}
public void render() {
stage.act();
Gdx.gl.glClear(GL20.GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
stage.draw();
}
public void resize(int width, int height) {
stage.getViewport().update(width, height, true);
}
// dispose...
}
MySquare.java
public class MySquare extends Actor {
ShapeRenderer renderer = new ShapeRenderer();
#Override
public void draw(Batch batch, float alpha){
batch.end();
renderer.begin(ShapeRenderer.ShapeType.Filled);
renderer.setColor(Color.GREEN);
renderer.rect(0, 0, 50, 50);
renderer.end();
batch.begin();
}
}
Unfortunately, the result is not as expected: As you can see, the green square is actually not a square. This behavior is the same for both Windows and Android (in landscape mode):
However, when setting the size of the window programmatically and explicitly via LwjglApplicationConfiguration in DesktopLauncher.java to a valid 9:16 resolution, the green square is displayed correctly. Why is that and how can I avoid this workaround (which does not work for Android anyway)?

Your problem is that your shape renderer is ignoring the camera. Update it like this:
public void draw(Batch batch, float alpha){
batch.end();
renderer.setProjectionMatrix(batch.getProjectionMatrix()); // <<<<< Add this
renderer.begin(ShapeRenderer.ShapeType.Filled);
renderer.setColor(Color.GREEN);
renderer.rect(0, 0, 50, 50);
renderer.end();
batch.begin();
}
If you are planning to eventually use sprites, and you're simply wanting rectangle placeholders for your actors, you don't need a custom actor for this. You can use a generic Actor and call setDebug(true) on it, and Stage will automatically draw its outline using an internal ShapeRenderer. Of course, you must first set a size and position on the Actor.