Assigning the correct resolution

[Cruze]

I was wondering everyday, how I could assign the correct resolution for GUI alot of people said to me use maths, I know maths, but how to calculate it?

[Bonsai]

Keyword is "relative" I guess.

Else you have to get players resolution and scale everything.

[Cruze]

Can you give me a little example?

[Bonsai]

What do you mean by GUI anyway?

Elements created by gui functions can be relative to the screen and each other.

Thats pretty easy to make them look equal on all resolution, except for the textlabels maybe.

For dx functions you can also make positions and stuff relative, by multiplying the screenX or Y by some value.

THere you can also scale font size, but it might look bad.

[Anubhav]

I suggest you to make it relative . You can also use guiGetScreenSize

[Citizen]

Yeah every gui elements should be relative most of the time. Here is a nice explanation about relative and abosulte:

https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/In ... d_Absolute

[Gallardo9944]

I was wondering everyday, how I could assign the correct resolution for GUI alot of people said to me use maths, I know maths, but how to calculate it?

huh, just calculate the position relatively to your guiGetScreenSize values. Like this:

local x,y = guiGetScreenSize() 
local px,py = x-100,y-100 -- will stick to "-100" from any resultion 

or

local x,y = guiGetScreenSize() 
local px,py = x/2,y/2 -- will keep middle here 

[Jesseunit]

I was wondering everyday, how I could assign the correct resolution for GUI alot of people said to me use maths, I know maths, but how to calculate it?

huh, just calculate the position relatively to your guiGetScreenSize values. Like this:

local x,y = guiGetScreenSize() 
local px,py = x-100,y-100 -- will stick to "-100" from any resultion 

or

local x,y = guiGetScreenSize() 
local px,py = x/2,y/2 -- will keep middle here 

That'll only put the top left corner of the GUI in the center. If you actually want it to be centered, I suggest you to remove the width and height of the GUI from the width and height of the screen resolution and multiply by 0.5 or divide by 2.

  
local sw, sh = guiGetScreenSize() -- Retrieve the client's screen resolution 
local width, height = 500, 250 -- Predefined width and height of the GUI 
local sx, sy = ( sw - width ) * 0.5, ( sh - height ) * 0.5 -- The actual centered width and height