Screen VS Viewport What is the difference

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In unity3d, what is the "Screen", "Viewport"? "Screen" image is not on the "Viewport" is a Camera on it? Learn unity3d friends, to explain, in unity3d in, "Screen", "Viewport", respectively, what is meant by the concept? "Screen Point", "Viewport Point", "World Point", What is the difference? Camera.ViewportToScreenPoint (), Camera.WorldToScreenPoint () What is the difference (in my opinion is the same, all the points in 3D space projected on the Screen, oh no difference?)

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Answer by Paulius-Liekis · Sep 19, 2011 at 07:58 AM

Screen and Viewport represent same area - on screen, but they have different coordinate systems (IIRC):

Screen: from [0,0] to [Screen.width, Screen.height]
Viewport: from [0,0] to [1,1]

World point is a point in world space.

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I just fixed the Viewport coordinates. It's [0,0] to [1,1] and not [-1,-1] to [1,1]. The latter are homogeneous device coordinates. This is the space where the GPU actually clips the geometry against the frustum. The result of the projection matrix outputs homogeneous coordinates.

A simplified version of the pipeline is:

 local space   [-inf, -inf] to [+inf, +inf]
     \/                                     -- localToWorld (Model)
 world space   [-inf, -inf] to [+inf, +inf]
     \/                                     -- worldToCamera (View)
 camera space  [-inf, -inf] to [+inf, +inf]
     \/                                     -- projectionMatrix (Projection)
 clip space    [  -1,   -1] to [   1,    1]
     \/                                     
 view space    [   0,    0] to [   1,    1] \
     \/                                      -- handled by GPU / driver
 screen space  [   0,    0] to [   W,    H] /

In all cases [0,0] is the bottom left. This only handles normal geometry. The GUI space is a special case where the camera space has to invert the y axis, hence it starts at the top left.

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noflyzone · Sep 19, 2011 at 09:19 AM 0

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In unity3d, why this design? Viewport In what circumstances is used?

Paulius-Liekis · Sep 19, 2011 at 11:29 AM 1

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I don't think it's Unity specific design - these are common terms in 3d graphics. Viewport might be useful if you want to check if something is on-screen (you don't care about Screen size), but I'm sure there are better exampled.

syclamoth · Sep 19, 2011 at 11:49 AM 1

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Viewport is used when you need to be sure something will show up the same on all different screen sizes and shapes. It is independent of the pixel width and height of the exact screen in question.

RedRival · Dec 19, 2012 at 03:44 AM 7

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Correction Viewport: from [0,0] to [1,1] Quote: Viewport space is normalized and relative to the camera. The bottom-left of the camera is (0,0); the top-right is (1,1). The z position is in world units from the camera. http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Camera.ViewportToWorldPoint.html

Jonathan-Bro · Dec 08, 2016 at 04:58 AM 1

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Hoping that people also check the comments. Just to reiterate what @redrival said.

The bottom-left of the camera is (0,0); the top-right is (1,1)

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Answer by Priyanka-Rajwanshi · Mar 03 at 06:05 PM

Screen point is defined in pixels. The bottom-left of the screen is (0,0); bottom-right of the screen is (Screen.width,0), left-top is (0, Screen.height) and the right-top is (Screen.width,Screen.height).

A viewport space point is normalized and relative to the Camera. The points on the screen range between 0 and 1. You can determine the the x-coordinate by dividing the screenPoint.x by Screen.width and the y-coordinate by dividing the screenPoint.y by Screen.height.

For more information, check out the link http://codesaying.com/understanding-screen-point-world-point-and-viewport-point-in-unity3d/

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