How to put entire game in the safe area?

I'm making a 2D game and I'm looking for help on how to make sure the entire game only displays in the safe area on both iOS and Android.

There's no shortage of tutorials on how to put Canvas elements inside the safe area, but I'd like my entire game to fit in there. Is there an automatic way to do this in Unity? Or perhaps a way to set the camera bounds to the safe area? What's the best way?

Thanks!

 

You could crop the main camera rect (in normalized coordinates!!) down appropriate to the safe area. Remember to layer another camera behind it (otherwise you'll have undefined graphics glitches behind around the borders).

You could also try Cinemachine, as it has some stuff to set up with this, but it requires setup:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/cinemachine-framing-with-screen-safearea.1079435/

 

Thanks Kurt. But.. 2 separate cameras? I wonder why there's no easy way to do this in Unity? Seems like it would be an obviously useful feature. Unity already has all the safe area data, why not allow games to implement it easily. What am I missing here?

 

Methinks you overestimate the effort of two cameras.

Make your camera rig like so:

MyCameraRigWithNothingOnItWhatsoever

  MyFullscreenCameraSetToRenderNothingButBlack

  MyActualCameraThatMightBeSmallerInSafeAreaAndIsLayeredHigherUp[/code]

 

Try disabling "Render outside safe area" if your building for Android. You can find it in the Player Settings under Resolution and Presentation. Although I wasn't able to find a similar feature for iOS.