JPEGs zoomed in

[Congressman]

Howdy all;

Enjoying the hell out of g-force, as I have been for quite a while now. I have two questions:

a) When a background image loads it s "zoomed in"; that is, I can only see the center of the image. How can I see the entire image? Is this interplay between the image rez and the display rez?

b) Can different themes access different folders of images?

TIA y'all,
Thompson

[juxtiphi]

Howdy all;

Enjoying the hell out of g-force, as I have been for quite a while now. I have two questions:

a) When a background image loads it s "zoomed in"; that is, I can only see the center of the image. How can I see the entire image? Is this interplay between the image rez and the display rez?

b) Can different themes access different folders of images?

TIA y'all,
Thompson

what size is your desktop set at? if its set at 800/600 it may cause images to appear larger. try a bigger res on your desktop

[Congressman]

Thanks for the reply!

Desktop is very big dim: 1680x1050, and g-force settings to match. I can understand g-force either (a) expanding small jpgs to this dim and those images then looking crappy or (b) g-force not expanding small jpgs to this dim and then looking small. But I also expect g-force to shrink larger jpgs to fit and not just cropping?

TIA,
Thompson

[Congressman]

After a moments reflection, I think I know what's going on. G-force is stretching images to fit the window/full-screen width, and then cropping top and bottom.

If so, two solutions are (a) tell g-force to fit only to top&bottom and to fill the rest black or (b) hand-crop each photo to ensure that height is always greater than or equal to width.

I'd rather that g-force just change it's display behavior. Anyone?

Thompson

[JayPro]

Try going into your Sprites folder and look for the (Default).txt doc.

Then look for a section called Flags. This will tell GF how to display your sprites. AT the very end of each flag value statement, you will see a double-slashed number.
If you want GF to apply more than one behavior to your pics, *add the doubleslashed numbers for each effect and place its value in the Flag="" parameter.*

For instance, if your intent is to make every image you have fit on-screen:


"k_ParticleFlags_ShrinkToFit" //1
and
"k_ParticleFlags_EnlargeToFit" //2

"k_" " "_MaintainAspect" //4

therefore, Flag="7".

If you wish your pics to exhibit other behavior types as supported by the Flag parameter (i.e. don't crop, masking/blending, threshold copy...whatever that is), simply add the //# values on top as well.

I hope this helps.

[Congressman]

After exhaustive trial and error, Flags=15 does the trick for me (in that "large" images are fit to either height or width but not both, and "small" images are stretched to either height or width but not both... does that scan?).

Thanks for the help,
Thompson