IOS Simulator: Some actors become very blurry?

0belisk

hey guys, just thought id test out this gamesalad ios simulator to see how my game is running on iphones, and all of a sudden, some of my actors (unfortunately the more important ones) have become very blurry.

i saved all my images as .png files exported from photoshop.

i heard you have to export as png-24 to fix this problem. so i got one of my animated images, re-saved each individual frame as png-24 and re-imported it, viewed my game again on the ios simulator yet its still blurry.

any insight to whats wrong with some of my images? i heard something about DPI also

thanks

quantumsheep

dpi should stay at 72.

It sounds to me as though you've clicked the 'Resolution Indepence' button thingy and not configured your images correctly (double the size of the actor's they're in, sticking to power of 2).

It that's not the case I've no idea as I only use actual devices to test, not the simulator! Sorry!

QS

0belisk

thanks for the quick reply, how do you change the DPI? while exporting in photoshop i looked everything for such an option to change the DPI, or is it something you change within gamesalad?

quantumsheep

0belisk said:
thanks for the quick reply, how do you change the DPI? while exporting in photoshop i looked everything for such an option to change the DPI, or is it something you change within gamesalad?

I'm no art expert (!) and my ancient copy of photoshop no longer works thanks to Lion - so I can't answer you that!

I use preview if I'm resizing stuff, and usually it'll show the DPI there when you choose the resize option.

Hope that helps!

QS

0belisk

i discovered some of my images were 72.009 DPI

so i changed them all to 72 DPI, yet their still really blurry... any other ideas?

firemaplegames

Make sure all of the dimensions of your graphics are even. so 68x124, not 63x124.

I made a post in this thread that might help you out:
http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=13501

0belisk

the main issue is my enemy being blurry, he has a DPI of 72, dimensions of 40x40. so the graphic is even, ill read the thread now

firemaplegames

Is the device that you are testing on an older one without a Retina Display?

If so, do you have Resolution Independence checked?

If that is the case, when you publish through GameSalad, the servers will take your Retina graphics and make lower resolution versions of them for the older devices.

They do it in a batch process. It's pretty good, but will never be as good as if you did it yourself with an image editing program like Photoshop.

0belisk

@firemaplegames

im testing it on the gamesalad ios simulator, for iphone 4.0, i do indeed have resolution independence ticked.

firemaplegames

hmmm. I would make an adhoc build and confirm that it happens there too. Just to make sure the Viewer isn't acting up.

So for Resolution Independence to work properly, your Actor needs to be 40x40 and your .png image needs to be 80x80. Is that the case?

0belisk

ah right! i didnt have my images double the size of the actors, i resized the images to 80x80 and now the actor doesnt appear to be blurry anymore, thanks alot!