Scale, Rotate, and Move don't do anything

[tajlund]

As I said above, in the creator, Scale, Rotate, and Move don't seem to function at all. I am trying to convert several animated gifs into wallpapers but they are too large in scale. All attempts to change the size have failed. I guess my only alternative is to resize in a different app, create a blank background to fill in the rest and save. Then put it in the converter for use. If anyone knows how to make this work let me know and I will be very happy to have the help.

[Laradox]

I think you can try to put those gifs into a video and make it a video wallpaper since video wallpapers automatically scale to fullscreen to fit the users' resolution.

[Code]

then that would defeat the object of being able to scale gifs etc.
Personally, I've not gotten to that stage just yet, though I'd like them to be functional and do their jobs there supposed to when I get to them.

[tajlund]

I think I'm going to have to use GIMP to make a wide black background add it as the bottom layer to the gifs and see if that works. It's been years (10 + years since I had the class in college) since I've done this kind of thing though so it my be a bit more difficult than I'm thinking.

I do hope the functions are activated in a later version, it would be nice to just add a gif and move it and alter it to fit. (Plus the ability to add a colored background would be wonderful, hint, hint).

[Biohazard]

GIFs are actually just automated and scale everything so that they cover the screen. Since the GIF template works on top of the normal editor, those buttons still show up although I didn't intend them to be used - at least currently.

[tajlund]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

GIFs are actually just automated and scale everything so that they cover the screen. Since the GIF template works on top of the normal editor, those buttons still show up although I didn't intend them to be used - at least currently.

That makes sense. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me since the gifs are taller than they are wide, the tops and bottoms of the gifs are cut off. I've tried saving them at various resolutions and nothing works, so now I have to try to figure out another option. I am trying to take movie poster styled gifs and make them into a wallpaper with the gif centered against a solid background.

The only one that has worked so far is Frankenstein which is a wide and short gif.

[Biohazard]

You could deal with it right now with some tricks. The app is capable of it but it's missing in the editor. If you are comfortable messing around with .json files in a text editor I could tell you what needs to be adjusted.

Improving the editor is currently at the top of my TODO list though.

[tajlund]

http://neonardo.com/image/33703790532

There are several more on his page that I can see are going to work, but I really want some of the movie posters to work. I just can't get the height to width thing to work. I guess I could try using GIMP, but I'm not sure I have the skills anymore.

[tajlund]

Sure, I'll give it a shot. Messing around with things is one of the main reasons I use Notepad++. Lol.

[Biohazard]

You'll find your project somewhere in wallpaper_engine/projects/myprojects/YOURNAME

Open gifscene.json and change this

		"orthogonalprojection" : 
		{
			"auto" : true
		},

To this:

		"orthogonalprojection" : 
		{
			"width" : 1920,
			"height" : 1080
		},

I haven't tested it though so it might not work. But in theory this should unlock everything. You might have to recenter the GIF and scale it up.

[tajlund]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

You'll find your project somewhere in wallpaper_engine/projects/myprojects/YOURNAME

Open gifscene.json and change this

		"orthogonalprojection" : 
		{
			"auto" : true
		},

To this:

		"orthogonalprojection" : 
		{
			"width" : 1920,
			"height" : 1080
		},

I haven't tested it though so it might not work. But in theory this should unlock everything. You might have to recenter the GIF and scale it up.

Sounds good, I'll give it a shot. Great program so far. Loving it.

[tajlund]

Okay, what this did was create a larger black area, which is perfect, but the actual picture is stuck down in the lower left corner and I can't move it around at all.

http://i.imgur.com/0Pj1Fa6.png

[Biohazard]

Try clicking on the object in the list first (image layer).

[tajlund]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

Try clicking on the object in the list first (image layer).

Do not know how I kept missing that. Perfect, thank you.

This fix works so well.