What am I doing wrong?

[Answulf]

I'm back to FGII after a few months away; I'm making a new adventure and having a problem importing maps.

I've scanned a dungeon map, resized it in to an appropriate size, then saved it in the images sub-folder folder of my campaign folder. Then when I open it up in FG, it is about double the size and stretched/pixilated.

I don't remember ever having this problem in the past - what am I doing wrong?

[Tokuriku]

You probably scanned it at 150 dpi
FGII present images at 72 DPI (the number of dots per inches on a computer screen) independently of what DPI it was saved in.

To change the DPI of your image in Photoshop, go to ~Image/Image Size~ and look at the bottom of the pop-up window. Adjust the DPI there to 72 and THEN make sure the image is the size you wanted (that's at the top of the same pop-up window).

Hope that helps!

[TaranShannara]

If I have an image at 96 or 200 dpi, wouldn't I be able to zoom in farther into the image when it is displayed? How does the zoom feature work into this?

[Answulf]

You probably scanned it at 150 dpi
FGII present images at 72 DPI (the number of dots per inches on a computer screen) independently of what DPI it was saved in.

To change the DPI of your image in Photoshop, go to ~Image/Image Size~ and look at the bottom of the pop-up window. Adjust the DPI there to 72 and THEN make sure the image is the size you wanted (that's at the top of the same pop-up window).

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the try, but I don't think that was the problem. It was at 96 pixels/inch - I switched it to 72 pixels/inch. No change. I resized it larger and the image was large in FG, but still too large and pixilated - like the image is stretching to fit a larger window in FG. I tried saving it as a .jpg and a .bmp and the same image size created two different image sizes in FG. I tired two different image-editing applications, too. I'm at a loss.

[Griogre]

Try deleting your CampaignRegistry.lua - if you are not in a fight or in the minst of something. It sounds like you had a map by that same name and it is remembering a "zoom" setting. Alternatively, if you do have things in the file you want to keep make sure you have a copy of the map and then delete the map out of images, give the map a different name and try dragging the renamed map back into images.

Finally their are some oddities with maps that have a dimesion (side) double or more than the other one typically it shows the smaller side as a square up to a certain size (which might have caused you to zoom in the first place).

[Answulf]

Try deleting your CampaignRegistry.lua

Worked - you rule!