# view var (world)

Source: https://ref.dm-lang.org/world/var/view

### Default value
> 5

### Possible values
> \-1 to 34 or "WIDTHxHEIGHT"

This is the default map viewport range. The default value of 5 produces an 11x11 viewport. A value of -1 turns off the map display altogether. The client may automatically scale down icons in order to conveniently fit the map on the player's screen.

For non-square views, you can assign this to a text string of the form "WIDTHxHEIGHT". For example, "11x11" is equivalent to a view depth of 5, but you could make it wider like this: "13x11".

This setting also affects the default range of the `view()`, `oview()`, `range()`, and `orange()` procedures.

If the entire map is small enough to fit on one screen (arbitrarily defined to be 21x21 or less), the default `view` is automatically adjusted to fit the map. In this case, `client.lazy_eye` is also automatically turned on by default, since you probably don't want the map to scroll around.

### See also
- [lazy_eye var (client)](https://ref.dm-lang.org/client/var/lazy_eye.md)
- [show_map var (client)](https://ref.dm-lang.org/client/var/show_map.md)
- [view proc](https://ref.dm-lang.org/proc/view.md)
- [view var (client)](https://ref.dm-lang.org/client/var/view.md)