Centering splash screen backgrounds on ANY screen size

Questions
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The one aspect of Defold that has me slightly confused is how it uses the Display height/width settings it gets you to configure in under game.project => Display. It feels like what is being asked for is actual screen pixel height and width. And then under Debug => Simulate Resolution you have the option to select from a wide variety of “standard” devices. Discounting anything below iPhone 8 and Samsung Galaxy Note 9 you have display resolutions that run the whole gamut from 375x 664px through to 1242 x 2688 px.

The two issues I need to address correctly at all times are

  1. I would like to have my splash screen background images properly centered on the screen - any screen
  2. I place a number of game objects randomly within the available screen dimensions. Up until now I have been using a game.project => Display size of 900(W) x 1600(H) and using those dimensions to box in my random game object placements. Clearly, that will not work either.

What is the right way of going about things here to stand a fighting chance of having the display appear “right” on any screen?

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What you want to do is look into the render script and specifically the projection you’re using.
This way you’ll be able to design against a fixed resolution and the screen will be scaled (and cropped if needed) by the render script.