Pixels Per Point

Hi guys,
So, i have a 3D webgl widget built with Unity, and i need a way to get pixel density outside the editor, to correct some object positioning on retina screens..

I know about the EditorGUIUtility.pixelsPerPoint, but that only works inside the editor...

 

I'm wondering about the exact same issue, have you ever found a solution?

 

Screen.width / Screen.height
Camera.pixelWidth / Camera.pixelHeight
Camera.scaledPixelWidth / Camera.scaledPixelHeight

To get pixelsPerPoint you need to define what's a point. If you mean a point like a physical unit measuring 1/72 inches in printing and typography, then it is hardware-dependent.

EditorGUIUtility.pixelsPerPoint is specifically intended to represent some hard-set values. And this is highly volatile, as evidenced by the docs

So this is hardly a scientific approach, more like a convenience.

Given that this screen density was initially pushed by Apple, they have a tendency to align things with physical reality, and so they opted for PPI measure of physical "points per inch" which is a standard that is used to describe the density of the physical cells of a display device while reserving the term "pixel" for the actual software content.

So what you really want is to find this measure, and because these standards are cringe, there is also DPI, which is a printing industry standard, known as "dots per inch". And indeed, you have things like Screen.dpi, but also solutions like these.

Check out this thread as well.

Disclaimer: I am not an expert, this has all been a product of a 5-minute research, with some prior background.