# 3d-retina-resolution

Keeps 3D canvases sharp on Retina and HiDPI displays, including fixed 200% rendering. Useful for blurry WebGL previews and display-density changes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 512 installs · ★ 7001
- Author: MengTo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/3d/3d-retina-resolution/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/3d-retina-resolution

## What it does

This skill lays out three scaling modes: fixed 200%, automatic Retina capped at 2×, and a value relative to native DPR. For Three.js, it keeps the renderer, camera, composer, and app-owned targets aligned while CSS remains responsible for the displayed canvas size. The camera framing stays unchanged.

It covers `ResizeObserver`, browser zoom and display changes, pointer normalization with `getBoundingClientRect()`, and drawing-buffer checks. Orthographic cameras need their bounds updated according to the project’s existing framing policy. The guidance also separates full-resolution depth and normal targets from deliberately smaller AO, bloom, or ray targets.

The skill recommends measuring 1× and 2× rendering, checking GPU limits, and reducing optional effect resolution before lowering the requested main view. Check the composer carefully: passing doubled dimensions to a composer that already uses DPR 2 allocates four times the dimensions on each axis.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill 3d-retina-resolution -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/3d-retina-resolution/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/3d-retina-resolution/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill 3d-retina-resolution -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/3d-retina-resolution/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill 3d-retina-resolution -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/3d-retina-resolution/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install MengTo/Skills 3d-retina-resolution
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/3d-retina-resolution/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill 3d-retina-resolution -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/MengTo/Skills --path agent-skills/3d/3d-retina-resolution
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/3d-retina-resolution/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add MengTo/Skills --skill 3d-retina-resolution -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/MengTo/Skills/tree/HEAD/agent-skills/3d/3d-retina-resolution/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- sharpen a WebGL canvas on Retina displays
- keep renderer and composer sizes in sync
- normalize pointer input in CSS space
- handle DPR and container-size changes
- choose fallbacks for expensive post-processing

## Example prompts
- Set up fixed 200% rendering for this Three.js scene and verify the drawing-buffer size.
- Fix the blurry WebGL preview when the display DPR changes without changing the canvas CSS size.
- Inspect the renderer, composer, and custom targets for a view that switches between standard and Retina displays.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: 3d-retina-resolution
description: Render a 3D canvas sharply on Retina and HiDPI displays, including explicit 200 percent resolution, synchronized renderer and post-processing sizes, correct pointer coordinates, and measured quality fallbacks. Use for blurry WebGL output, 2x rendering, high-resolution previews, and display-density changes.
---

# 3D Retina Resolution

Treat an explicit **200% rendering** request as two drawing-buffer pixels per CSS pixel in each dimension. A 1200 × 800 CSS canvas therefore uses a 2400 × 1600 drawing buffer, or four times the pixels of 100%. Layout and camera framing stay unchanged.

## Choose the scale deliberately

- **Fixed 200%:** effective pixel ratio is `2`, independent of device pixel ratio. This is the default when the user explicitly requests 200%.
- **Automatic Retina, capped at 2×:** effective ratio is `Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2)`. This can render at 1× on an ordinary display; label it Auto rather than claiming it always renders at 200%.
- **Relative to native resolution:** multiply native DPR only when the user explicitly wants that meaning. Native 2× multiplied by another 2 becomes 4× per dimension, or sixteen times the CSS pixel count.

Keep an explicit quality selection distinct from automatic adaptation. Inspect the project's renderer and post-processing architecture before changing sizing.

## Synchronize the rendering pipeline

Use CSS to size the canvas and its container, then measure the container in CSS pixels. In Three.js WebGL, one consistent convention is logical sizes plus pixel ratio:

```js
function resize3D(width, height, ratio = 2) {
  if (!Number.isFinite(width) || !Number.isFinite(height) || width <= 0 || height <= 0) return;
  if (!Number.isFinite(ratio) || ratio <= 0) throw new RangeError('Invalid render ratio');
  renderer.setPixelRatio(ratio);
  renderer.setSize(width, height, false); // CSS owns displayed dimensions
  camera.aspect = width / height;        // perspective camera
  camera.updateProjectionMatrix();
  if (composer) {
    composer.setPixelRatio(ratio);
    composer.setSize(width, height);     // logical pixels; do not multiply again
  }
  const physicalWidth = renderer.domElement.width;
  const physicalHeight = renderer.domElement.height;
  resizeCustomTargets(physicalWidth, physicalHeight);
}
```

The snippet assumes an existing `renderer`, perspective `camera`, optional `composer` (or `null`), and a `resizeCustomTargets` adapter supplied by the app. For an orthographic camera, update its bounds according to the existing framing policy instead of setting `aspect`.
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