PinkDot on 27/5/2013 at 20:05
Quote Posted by "LarryG"
You guys are missing the point: you determine the height and width of the image using the height and width parameters of the set_bg_image command!
Larry - that's exactly what I meant by saying "make the entire bitmap 640 units large".
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http://postimg.org/image/ltecua28f/)
Inline Image:
http://s11.postimg.org/ltecua28f/bg_image.jpgthis is the image taken from the first post of this thread, just cleaned of existing grid lines.
LarryG on 27/5/2013 at 20:46
My day for misunderstanding, then. I thought you intended for him to re-size it in a paint program not in DromEd.
Yes, you have exactly what I meant!
Ricebug on 28/5/2013 at 11:46
After sleeping on it all night, I realized you guys were probably mis-led by the screenshot. This is the 640x640 BG image I imported into Dromed (colors changed for clarity).:
Inline Image:
http://www.ricebug.org/temp/GridTest2.pngThe 3 small squares are in multiples of 64 (64/128/256).
Once I had it in the editor, I did a screenshot and clipped it, leaving a border of grid squares
that belong to Dromed, not the image. (Thus the "18x18" confusion.) The whole idea is to try and figure out how to do a layout in a paint program where the dimensions correlate to the editor's grid without having to devise some tedious mathematical mumbo-jumbo.
If I got anyone's blood pressure up, I apologize.
R Soul on 28/5/2013 at 13:20
If the image is 640 x 640, squeezed into 64 x 64 feet, that's a division by 10. I know I'm stating the obvious. But the 128 x 128 pixel square in the image will also divided by 10, so in Dromed it's 12.8 x 12.8.
So, to get something that's x feet long in Dromed, in the image it needs to be 10x pixels long.
LarryG on 28/5/2013 at 13:38
Well then, I don't know what problem you are having. I took your image and scaled it to 640 x 640 in the background image parameter screen at 500, 500, 300, and everything lines up perfectly for a 16 grid. I then rescaled it in the background image parameter screen to 320 x 320, and again to 160 x 160, and both times everything still lined up perfectly. So what was the problem?
I also changed the grid to 14 and resized the background to 14 x 14 and 28 x 28, and the outer edges lined up perfectly (the inner squares aren't drawn on a 14 grid, so of course they wouldn't align).
PinkDot on 28/5/2013 at 15:44
@Ricebug - go back and read this thread again, as all the answers were already given to you.
Again - it's not the image size you need to change. It's the settings in Dromed that matters: Width and Height of the bitmap in the set_bg_image command dialog window. These are in Dromed feet - not in pixels.
vfig on 23/12/2021 at 15:05
Quote Posted by LarryG
And here are the settings I used to set it up in DromEd so that I could see it while I was building. (I used it as a side view, not a floor plan as you intend, but you get the idea) Note that you have to specify the displayed dimensions (height and width) in DromEd units.
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But whatever you do, since DromEd doesn't remember your settings, either take a snapshot or copy it out of your monolog to a text file (DromEd does write the setting to monolog). You can even take the monolog output and turn it into a command file, I think, to execute when you need it again.
thank you Larry, this was extremely helpful for me today!
