Problem with adding actors to my scene

ironclaw2000ironclaw2000 Member Posts: 7
edited July 2012 in Working with GS (Mac)
I have a problem when I try to add actors to my scene.Whenever I put them onto the scene, only a quarter of the image of the actor is displayed on the scene. Even when I test the game, it only shows a quarter of the image. When I drag the actor, everything looks fine until I drop it into the scene, when it expands the one part of the image to fit the entire size of the actor. The image for the actor is a normal png, and is 128 X 128. I haven't changing anything settings for the actor. I've tried deleting and reinstalling Gamesalad, but it didn't work. I have seen videos of people adding images to actors, then adding actors to a scene without changing anything. IS this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? Im doing the EXACT same thing as the people on youtube do it.

Please help! I'm trying to make my first game, but this is stopping me!

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  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Posts: 6,598
    edited July 2012 Accepted Answer

    Hi @ironclaw2000

    My guess is you've checked Resolution Independence (which is fine) – but that means all of your images need to be exactly twice the size that you want them to be seen on-screen. Example: you want your image to be 128 x 128; so you have to make them 256 x 256 pixels.

    As well, always 72dpi, and make sure the image width and height of each actor is exactly divisible by 4 every time.

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  • ChobbifaceChobbiface Posts: 491
    Accepted Answer
    What size is the actual Gamesalad actor? Also go into the actor, under the graphics section is horizontal and vertical wrap set to stretch?
  • gyroscopegyroscope I am here.Posts: 6,598
    edited July 2012 Accepted Answer

    It's not an attribute, it's a choice: it's under the Platform drop down menu in the Home window.

    By the sound of it then, you're not using this at the moment; so possibly the reason for the wrong size is that you have your blank actor set to a different size than the preferred screen size of your image (as @Chobbiface suggested)...

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