MsBarrows ∙ Oct 26, 2007

In case anyone else is wondering the same thing... here's what my response to greeneyedsims1's question was:

Okay, if you're familiar with recolouring, you're likely also familiar with the way computers like their textures to be sized in powers-of-two (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024...). However, portrait and landscape proportions are not evenly divisible that way; look at a sheet of paper - it's actually 3 units in width to 4 units in height (or 4:3 if you turn it sideways into landscape orientation). So when trying to map textures to the portrait and landscape sized frame, you need to start with the 3:4 or 4:3 ratio (for example, 600x800 or 800x600) and then distort (unevenly scale) it to the 1:2 or 2:1 ration (600x800 -> 256:512, 800x600 -> 512x256) that is required for the texture to be usable by the game engine. Then when the stretched texture gets applied to the mesh and displayed in-game, it gets squashed back to the correct ratio, since the mesh is of the correct ratio and using the full te

greeneyedsims1 ∙ Oct 25, 2007

I am really impressed with these frames and look forward to the next set. I also look forward to recoloring these photos to suit my Sims. However, I had a question about your installation instructions.

What do you mean when you say, you should start with a portrait or landscaped-sized image and [b]distort it to the 1:2 ratio or a 2:1 ratio[/b], so it will end up with the correct proportions once in the frame.

I'm not familiar with "distort and ratio" terms, I don't think. I'm familiar with recoloring, I do it all the time but have never done this, I don't think. *smiles shyly*

Any help would be appreciated, and again...thanks so much for the frames!

--green