how to scale up a whole window

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leNoah
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how to scale up a whole window

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Hi,
I've been working on a game with a pixelated style (cliche much?) And at the moment the game window is 150 by 100 px. Is there a way to scale up the whole window at once to, say, 600 by 400? I've seen the scale factor properties in drawings but how would I scale it up altogether, if possible?

Thanks in advance, noah :awesome:
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Re: how to scale up a whole window

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The easiest way is to call [wiki]love.graphics.scale[/wiki] at the start of love.draw. You just have to be careful with using Canvases, since if you don't reset or counteract the scaling they'd be scaled twice.
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Re: how to scale up a whole window

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Markgo's Screen Scaler Helper is a ready-made solution for that. It handles the scaling and coordinates automatically based on your monitor settings and keeps a correct aspect ratio so that the graphics don't look distorted or uneven.

Some of the graphics generated with love.graphics won't be scaled though, so you need to modify his script a bit if you actually notice it (for example, by using a canvas).

Ulydev also made an alternate module, which correctly scales everything using a canvas, but his version has fewer options and is a bit buggy; it requires some testing. For example, it doesn't round the scale factors, so the pixels can be uneven depending on your monitor resolution.
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