WordsEye Feature 1.3 appeared on the App Store this week. It just has one fix – WordsEye scenes are now scaled to fit the iPhone screen:
In the previous version, the images were not scaled, and since they’re slightly larger than the iPhone screen a bit is cropped off the top and the right (like some of the haircuts I used to get)
Scaling-to-fit changes squashes the original image a bit, but I think it looks better overall. Of course, I could letterbox it (except the empty areas would go on the sides), but still, I think it looks better to fill up the screen.
Actually, that was the original behavior, but then (anyone not using Unity stop reading here) I realized I had a massive memory leak accessing the convenient but deadly WWW.texture, so then I switched to WWW.DownloadImageToTexture which seemed to ignore the pixel insets that made WWW.texture fit the screen (and only on the iPhone – works fine on the widget version), but this time around, I belatedly realized that DownloadImageToTexture will automatically scale to the target texture, which makes sense – it’s hard to download images if you have to know their original size. So now it just downloads into a screen-sized texture instead of into a texture matching the original image size with a bunch of insets that attempt to mash it into place. So we’ve gone from broken-but-simple to broken-in-a-less drastic-way-but complicated to simple-again-and-hopefully-nothing-broken.