Prevent auto resizing of images
Jun 27, 2017
Hey all,
I am trying to drop in a large image into SL360 and then use a scrolling panel to allow the user to look through the image. For context, it is a 9-page pdf doc that has been converted to an image.
The problem is, every time I drop the image into SL360, it resizes to the max height of the screen, which is much too small to read. Then, of course, when I expand it out, it is pixelated beyond a useable level.
Is there any way I can tell SL360 that I know what I'm doing and to stop resizing the image?
9 Replies
You cannot stop it resizing, you can open the size and position after inserting and set it to 100%.
If the image is larger than the stage I would not expect to see any pixellation at 100%
Thanks Phil,
My SL story is set to 720x540, the image is 720x8192 with size set to 100 I get what I have attached.
I'll maybe try making the image bigger.
Yeah, I've tried it at full resolution, 2253x24297, but it still does something during the import that wrecks it.
It looks like the max height for an original image in SL is 2048px.
very frustrating!
Sorry if I didn’t explain myself very well, I meant to change the image size to 100% or press the reset image button either of those should set it to the original size.
I believe there is a maximum size in pixels for images of around 2000x2000 or thereabouts so you may be hitting that issue.
You could insert it as a web object. Here is an example project.
You will probably need to edit the index.html page to work with your image. Open the file in notepad and edit the line:
<img src="image.jpg" height="2494" width="5000">
Your explanation was fine Phil, sadly it is the limitation of SL that was the problem. I have solved the problem by splitting the image into 5 parts, then I user buttons to show/hide layers to get a suitable end result.
I had a similar problem. one way around this is to cut your panoramic image up in photoshop (I had 3 at 1920x1080 px), import them individually, arrange them across the storyline slide, then group them. Any actions, animations etc will treat the group as a single image. This means you can scroll across a panoramic image, in one slide, on one layer, without quality loss. Boom :0)
Just follow Tim's instructions and it worked perfectly. Its a bit of prep, but it works!
I'm glad to see that this conversation was able to help you as well, Tony.
Thanks for chiming in to share and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
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