How to convert the bounds of a box to screen coordinates - c#

I have a 2D unity project.
I cannot depend on OnMouseExit because overlapping 2D box colliders cause the method to trigger even when the mouse is inside the bounds, since something else is in front (which is not my intention).
I was going to manually check for the mouse exiting on every frame by using:
if(!_collider.bounds.contains(Input.MousePosition))
But this does not work because `mouse position' is in terms of the number of pixels across the screen, and 'bounds' is in terms of "units" relative to the origin of the scene. The camera is Orthographic and slides around to look at the 2D plane that the world's sprites sit on. I have no idea how many "units" fit across the screen and suspect that it would change as soon as you change the aspect ratio or screen size.

You can use ScreenToWorldPoint(), to convert from screen point to 3D/2D point based on the camera's viewport, something like this:
if(!_collider.bounds.contains(Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.MousePosition)))

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guys! We are developing a 2D game for desktop and mobile. It is grid-based although we decided not to use tilemaps and, instead, create our own grid by code, because we need to program different actions and interactions for each tile. The game UI is on a canvas and that part resizes as we expected. Also, everything already works quite well "functionality-wise" on both, mobile and desktop. The problem is that, as we made the main grid and objects as sprites, it works great on any 16:9 screen, but some of the screen space gets cut when it runs on any wider screen.
How can we resize the whole sprite scene depending on screen size? I guess it has more to do with the camera than with the actual objects but we don´t have a clear clue. We already looked into "pixel-perfect camera" and, although we haven´t dug too deeply into it, it looks like it´s aimed more towards preserving artwork at full resolution and not so much at what we need.
This one is from the PC where we are developing the game and where it looks as it should:
And this one is from a PC with a wider screen (16:10) where the scene gets cropped from the sides (In the previous picture I marked in orange/yellow the columns that are lost in this one)
I guess there should be a way to stretch all sprites to fit the screen, but I think the best way to go would be to get empty horizontal or vertical bars, on top and bottom or to the sides, in order to preserve the exact proportions, and that would be good enough. But how to do it?
Thanks in advance.
Solved! Starting with the great ideas ephb gave me, I finally decided to get a reference percentage between the screen width and height. So, for 1920x1080, which is the resolution I know the game looks correct in, I did a rule of three and got that 1080 is 56.25% of the screen width, and, that in that case, the camera size should be 5.
Knowing those two elements, now I can check the height proportion for the user´s device and, using another rule of three, calculate the correct camera size, like this:
Camera cam;
void Awake()
{
cam = Camera.main;
cam.orthographicSize = GetHeightProportion() * 5 / 56.25f; //1920x1080 reference ---
}
float GetHeightProportion()
{
return ((float)Screen.height * 100) / (float)Screen.width;
}
I think you are looking to resize fore any aspect ration not screen resolution. You use the aspect ratio dropdown of the game window to see how it looks without running it on different computers.
The default setting is that the vertical field of view of your camera stays the same. Since the 16:10 display is taller this results in your image appearing zoomed with the sides being cut off.
Since you are using sprites and you basically have to recreate what the canvas scaler does but in world space.
You could move your camera, change its FOV if it a perspective camera, change its size if it is an orthographic camera or scale your scene. I will describe the first steps.
Get Screen width and height and calculate the aspect ratio.
Compare against your target aspect ratio. (I assume it is 16/9)
Use this multiplier to scale your scene / move your camera / change it's field of view

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I have a square aim set to the middle of the screen, this is an UI image. Now I want to detect if enemies (visualized by pink boxes here) are within this aimbox but also, and this is very important, if only a part of the enemy is within the aimbox.
What I found so far is that I can't use (please correct me if I'm
wrong):
Raycast from midscreen, because then you have to aim directly at the
enemy.
Boxcast because it only creates the box at the target raycast point.
Raycast from the enemy to screen to detect object on screenpoint,
because the ray is cast from mid of the enemy.
Spherecast, because it's not a box and thus unreliable.
Using a box object (with collider) with a huge length into the
screen, because visually it will not retain the size of the aimbox
image.
I have tought about using several raycasts from the screen into the world using start points at 3,6,9,12 o'clock of the aimbox image position as well as from the cornors and midpoint of the UI aimbox image. But this seem like a really unreliable solution.
Here is an image of what I'm trying to achieve.
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I have a map (2d) which is about 5 times the size of the screen area. I can touch drag the map. However the user must only be able to drag it as far as the map is still showing. So the empty area outside map isn't showing.
So my question is: which of the two methods are best:
1) have colliders at the side of the screen and then put colliders on each side of the map. Then checking for collision and if so move the map so its collider does not touch the screen collider.
Or
2) check for the position of the map (i have an adjustable screen size according to device) and then stop the drag if it gets dragged further than visibility of screen. Using coordinates and math.
Will it take up more space (the ios/android) file if I use solution 1?
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Unity Camera Size Web Player

I have a question regarding the different sizes of the web player of unity.
I have a scene where the user will select the level he wants to play and i the camera can move only on up and down , not sideways , and the user can not zoom in or out.
My problem is that because of the different screen sizes the camera size will exit the bounds of the game and the user will see a black part of the scene.
What i need to do is to clamp the ortographicSize of the camera. On the left of the map and on the right i have 2 objects which are the borders.
How can i clamp the camera size in order for it to not go over the borders ?
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The camera.orthographicSize is the half size of the vertical volume (you can use the resolution of the horizontal volume to get the needed vertical volume).
Probably you are looking to implement this: sizeX/size = width/Height,
Use this to calculate SizeX.

Viewport 3D WPF C# - Several Questions

what is the best way to position the Camera in a way that i can see what i paint in a certain region?
p.e. I'm painting a rectangle at around 300,400,2200. Where do i have to place the camera and which view do i have to set so that everything fits "in"?
Is there a trick or a special method or do i have to try it out with different camera positions?
There is no standard function that will position the camera this way because there are many options (think of different sides and rotations)
A trick you could use is:
Take the center of the MeshGeometry3D by using the Bounds property and add the normal vector several times to position the Camera.
Then use the normal vector of the plane, invert it and use it as the LookDirection for the camera.
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