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Problems with backgrounds?

by Neil M. · in Constructor · 05/15/2007 (6:11 pm) · 4 replies

Is anyone else having problems with backgrounds?

I have exported a bitmap from Autocad and I know it's 12.86m x 12.86m. I have also created a mesh to scale. Now I want to make the background line up with the mesh in constructor but I'm running into some image squishing.

Background image: www.eightlines.com/neil/torque/712m.jpg
What I'm seeing: www.eightlines.com/neil/torque/constructorerror.jpg

How come vertically the background gets squished and the last line of the image gets tiled to the bottom of the 12.86m x 12.86m square?

I just tried with 1.0.1... it didn't fix the problem. When is 1.0.2 being released? ;)
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Associate David Wyand
Gnometech Inc.
#1
05/15/2007 (7:26 pm)
Greetings!

Is the 712m.jpg your actual image? If so I see it is 858x858. It likely has to be a power of two size as we're just mapping it to a polygon. Try resizing it to 1024x1024 and see if that helps.

- LightWave Dave

Torque Owner Neil M.
Default Studio Name
#2
05/16/2007 (4:02 am)
Awesome, that fixed it, thanks.

Torque Owner Scott Doerrfeld
#3
06/26/2007 (11:06 am)
How do you set the background in Constructor anyway.

Torque Owner Neil M.
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#4
06/26/2007 (11:18 am)
Edit->Modify Viewport Backdrop. Then on the left there is a texture dropdown from which you can select [Load].