Looking for a zoom out extension

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Heya!

I’m relatively new to make code, and I’ve been looking for a zoom out extension for my game, A Fisherman’s Life for me, so I can see the whole tilemap at once, I’ve seen some stuff about making a new, smaller tilemap so we can see it all. But I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for. Any way I may be able to do this? Thanks!

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kiwiphoenix364/pxt-zoom or kiwiphoenix364/pxt-beta-screen-effects – Zoom in and out

I forgot who made it. srry.

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You could try the mini-map extension to see the whole map, or increasing screen resolution, though I don’t usually like doing that because you can only change it once, at the start of the game, and a lot of extensions become buggy or don’t work with other screen resolutions.

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you can’t zoom out, but you could increase the screensize and then zoom in with the zoom extension. However, i think you’re better off just using the minimap extension! you can find it in the default extension list

for non default extensions defo use awesome arcade it is indeed awesome

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there is a zoom extension, but It wont do what I think you want, I’m assuming you just want to increase the size of the screen yes?

if that is what you want, you can switch to JavaScript and copy paste this at the top: namespace userconfig {
export const ARCADE_SCREEN_WIDTH = 160
export const ARCADE_SCREEN_HEIGHT = 120
}

you can change the numbers to change the resolution of your game - you can switch back to blocks mode afterward.

also, if you don’t want to change the resolution, you can install the tilemap utils extension and use 8x8 tiles instead of 16x16.

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this will let you zoom in and out (I believe that negative or <1 zoom zooms out) https://github.com/kiwiphoenix364/pxt-zoom

but you’ll probably need to increase the screen resolution instead and zoom in everywhere else

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I’ve tried this, but it simply makes the edges black. I’d like to see all of it, and for a short period of time. Specifically so I can see an animation that is usually out of view. And then go back to normal. Is this possible?

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How might I increase the screen size? Preferably in blocks.

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change to javascript, paste this and then convert back you’ll get a grey block. you can’t use it in coding tho it only works when run at the start of yr code
namespace userconfig {
export const ARCADE_SCREEN_WIDTH = 160
export const ARCADE_SCREEN_HEIGHT = 120
}

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