Game View Zoom toggle or options

Can we please have options for setting what the slider represents (I.e 1:1 fit to selected resolution preset rather than simply scaling to view height), or an option to disable the feature, as we can with other view features.

I understand why this feature exists, but it's completely counter-productive for those who *don't* need it, or need the game view in 1:1 for I.e. Pixel perfect art layout or screen capture, or just generally find it intrusive.

 

Hi Shawn,

It gets in the way because it overrides the size of the maximized Game window, where I need a 1:1 pixel game window for many reasons, in particular specific long-established workflows and tools.

The slider value itself is less than intuitive. I initially thought it was using view window height, but it seems maybe it's the desktop Height?

i.e. Set the Game view resolution to 1920x1080p on a 1440p monitor and the slider to 1x. Where are the corners? What's happened to the aspect ratio? (The 1080 camera is now taller than the Game View). Is this intentional or a bug? (see first attached image)

There's no documentation that I can find other than:

"zoom out to see the entire screen where the device resolution is higher than the Game View window size"

So on paper this is a logical feature to have, except it doesn't appropriately account for resolutions that are smaller than the Game View window size: The slider's Min value is locked if if the device resolution is lower than the Game View, as shown in the second image.

I'd have expected that the ideal value for a zoom slider would be a relative to the device resolution. This is how art packages have worked since the dawn of computer graphics.

But today at least I would settle for being able to render the Game view in 1:1 again!

Cheers

 

@shawn Slightly related to this but not a bug, after finally getting retina resolution support on OSX in Unity 5.4 the editor has become almost unusable on my MacBook Pro. The scene and game views are being rendered at high resolution so performance is really bad. I was hoping the zoomer might help but it doesn't quite manage, so after finding this thread in the beta forums (http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/retina-gameview-too-slow-on-macbook-pro.392429/) I've disabled retina support for the Unity app.

The thread also suggests using a fixed resolution for the game view but I usually have it set to 'Free Aspect' so it takes up whatever space it has with other palettes being moved around all the time. The current zoom feature obviously zooms the game view but that doesn't affect the screen dimensions for the game, it just zooms everything in. Setting a fixed resolution at half the size I have and then zooming 2x almost works but has to use scroll bars pretty quickly when space runs out and obviously needs the fixed resolution to be updated whenever other palettes are resized.

Unlikely, but is there a way to support retina in the editor but only when needed in the scene and game views by having an option to pixel-double/scale so it doesn't have to render at the native high resolutions?

 

@shawn sounds great I doubt at the moment if it's only old machines, rather it's high-end laptops with high dpi displays being driven by mobile gpus. Over time no doubt it will improve as hardware gets better but at the moment it's unusable for us. I guess a feature like this would also help low/mid-range desktop machines driving new 4k+ displays etc. as they become more popular and affordable.

Also, while you're reading, the Unity 5.4.0f3 Editor on OSX constantly asks for firewall permission when opening even after the app has been whitelisted/allowed in the settings.

 

Oh boy. The ultimate in facepalms! Display Settings > 125% text scaling.

Problem fixed, thank you for spotting that, I hadn't even noticed and probably never would have.

Of course, now everything is tiny...but there's also more of it

 

Sure, done. #819351

Update: was reproduced by QA.

 

I find myself accidentally moving the scale slider, so being able to disable it would be nice. If the change is small, it sometimes seems like I've mis-scaled my object - then I realize - oh it's that %$#@ slider again. The first time it happened it took me a while to figure out what was wrong, as I was unaware of this feature...

 

Hi!

I second that. Game view scale is very unproductive. For some reasons it tends to just jump to 2x at random times when play is starting. And it messes up a scaled UI. I would very very much like to disable view scale.

 

I am also experiencing the issue of the Game View scale constantly jumping to 2x. It would be very nice if there was a way to toggle that zoom feature off entirely.

 

Even though I like the function I would also prefer a way of disabling it. Since it is changed by using the scroll wheel, i have more than once "scaled by accident"

 

Ditto. Every few minuets or when i click Play in the Editor XD In out, in out, Closing/reopening/shutting down does not fix. Will keep an eye out for Unity update as it seems common problem and most likely fixed already
However i like the feature and would prefer a fix and not it being changed.

Edit: Macbook Pro Retina 2016 - Not touching touchpad and it still happens.

 

I too am experiencing the frequent jumping and defaulting to 2x, the cause of which I can't determine - it's quite inconvenient!

FWIW, I'm on a new MacBook Pro.

 

It always jumps to 2x for me too, making only the center parts of the game visible. So I have to set it back to 1x every single time I hit play.

 

Times I scroll = 100,000
Times I want to zoom in to a pixelated Game view = 1
Times i have to check if I accidentally again got zoomed in a bit = 99,999
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And speaking of:
Times I switch Scene: 99
Times I Switch Project: 1
However..
[Menu] Open Scene: Horrible UX of throwing me out in OS to dig out Scenes
[Menu] Open Project: Nice view of recent Projects
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Maybe it's because:
If you develop games this is how it is, but if you develop Unity all of the above numbers are opposite..?

 

Gotta throw my own two cents in on this as well. The Game view scale jumping to 2x seemingly randomly (but definitely each time on project load) is very irritating. MacBook Pro (15" retina) mid 2014, here.

 

Was there any solution to this? It's slowly driving me crazy having to adjust the zoom back to 1x every few minutes.
Is there a way to just switch off the zoom feature altogether?

 

+1 & bump & upvote!!

 

Anyone found a solution to this random jump to 2x scale? Drives me nuts too. Macbook Pro touchbar. Wish this feature could be disabled.

 

I was thinking even an editor script that just constantly put it back to 1x would be fine, but I haven’t figured out a way to do that.
It’s annoying since it’s a feature I think only 2d people will ever use.

 

bump

 

Hehe yeah, this is still a super annoying bug. I have to change it so often that I sorta don’t notice it though
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it in the newer (17.) versions of unity too sadly.

 

Year later and still have the bug.
It was narrowed down to Touchpads and possibly macbooks right?

 

sounds about right. Happens right after serialisation finishes (while iterating code etc). Not always tho. Give user sense of "happening often and randomly" which adds to the frustration.

 

Personally, I have no use for the game view zoom function. Even just some editor API access would be enough of a solution we could write a script or something to always zoom back to 1x. GAH!

 

Yeah, I never even use this feature so it's super annoying to have to deal with it
Decided to try and get a script happening, but I know very little about this stuff so it might not work.

I haven't really tested it, I'll try and see how I go.
If anyone else wants to try it out, put this script into an editor folder in the project.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Reflection;
2. using UnityEditor;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEditor.Callbacks;
5.  
6. public class StopZoomingFFS
7. {
8.     [PostProcessSceneAttribute(2)]
9.     public static void OnPostprocessScene()
10.     {
11.         SetSize();
12.     }
13.  
14.     public static void SetSize()
15.     {
16.         float targetScale = 1;
17.         var gvWndType = typeof(Editor).Assembly.GetType("UnityEditor.GameView");
18.         var gvWnd = EditorWindow.GetWindow(gvWndType);
19.         var areaField = gvWndType.GetField("m_ZoomArea", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);
20.         var areaObj = areaField.GetValue(gvWnd);
21.         var scaleField = areaObj.GetType().GetField("m_Scale", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);
22.         scaleField.SetValue(areaObj, new Vector2(targetScale, targetScale));
23.     }
24. }

I found a bunch of things from these posts -
https://answers.unity.com/questions/956123/add-and-select-game-view-resolution.html
https://forum.unity.com/threads/control-the-new-game-view-scale-slider-via-script.435385/
(and thanks to Zod Bain from discord for the heads up on the callback!)

Pete.

 

That is simple. I have not tested this on a Mac, but let me know if you have issues.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2. using System.Reflection;
3. using UnityEditor;
4.  
5. [InitializeOnLoad]
6. public class SetScaleGameView
7. {
8.     static SetScaleGameView()
9.     {
10.         EditorApplication.update += SetGameViewScale;
11.     }
12.  
13.     private static void SetGameViewScale()
14.     {
15.         Type T = Type.GetType("UnityEditor.GameView,UnityEditor");
16.         UnityEngine.Object[] objectsOfTypeAll = UnityEngine.Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll(T);
17.         EditorWindow gameview = objectsOfTypeAll.Length <= 0 ? null : (EditorWindow)objectsOfTypeAll[0];
18.         if (T != null && gameview != null)
19.         {
20.             MethodInfo snapZoomMethod = T.GetMethod("SnapZoom", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
21.             PropertyInfo minScaleProperty = T.GetProperty("minScale", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
22.             if (minScaleProperty != null && snapZoomMethod != null)
23.             {
24.                 float minScale = (float)minScaleProperty.GetValue(gameview, null);
25.                 snapZoomMethod.Invoke(gameview, new object[] { minScale });
26.             }
27.         }
28.     }
29. }

Reflection to the rescue!

 

I missed your reply please check the code from mine and let me know if you have any feedback.

 

Hehe, no worries, thanks for taking a look!
I haven't had a chance to check it, most of that stuff is a mystery to me (it's all weird undocumented stuff) but I've had my script running for a few days and I think it's working !

 

The Unity Staff obviously don't use MacBooks
I'l try the scripts, thanks!

StopZoomingFFS.cs

just noticed that! Nice!

Added both scripts, did a quick test to try get zoom bug to happen and it hasnt, which of the two scripts would you recommend ?

 

Well I haven’t tried grumpy’s yet but it gets called at a different time to mine. Mine gets called after pressing play which’s is cool most of the time but the problem would sometimes occur for me when Im working on layout and switching back and for from vscode and unity. It would be nice if I could trigger the callback from unity gaining focus or something.
But yeah, I guess no one has a MacBook at Unity3d

 

I'm coming back here-- again-- to throw my pointless vote in. It happens every time I press play or compile a script and it's been happening for ages. This is on Mac OS but not a macbook. iMac 2017. This bug is already in the issue tracker but it was closed and abandoned years ago. Issue 779699.

On the upside, I found an unorthodox way to (temporarily) fix it: Force-quit Unity and reload. If Unity happens to crash, it will happen again, but you can Force-quit and it should be back to normal again. My guess is there's a flag that gets set when quitting and starting Unity and when it doesn't shut down gracefully, it doesn't get set. This is not a 100% fix, just something that usually works for me.