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#1 2008-10-29 23:06:12

SmartIrishKid
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Picture uploading

Why can't I upload certain bitmap images as sprites or costumes?  Does it have something to do with memory, or is it some kind of bug?


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#2 2008-10-30 04:50:29

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Re: Picture uploading

SmartIrishKid wrote:

Why can't I upload certain bitmap images as sprites or costumes?  Does it have something to do with memory, or is it some kind of bug?

What file format are they in?  Make sure they are in a format that Scratch knows how to read like JPEG, GIF or PNG.  I like PNG best myself since it supports a transparent color.  I'm not sure all the formats that Scratch knows how to read but I do know those ones work.


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#3 2008-10-30 19:38:58

SmartIrishKid
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Re: Picture uploading

Paddle2See wrote:

SmartIrishKid wrote:

Why can't I upload certain bitmap images as sprites or costumes?  Does it have something to do with memory, or is it some kind of bug?

What file format are they in?  Make sure they are in a format that Scratch knows how to read like JPEG, GIF or PNG.  I like PNG best myself since it supports a transparent color.  I'm not sure all the formats that Scratch knows how to read but I do know those ones work.

I said, they're all in bitmap (.bmp) format.  I downloaded some of the multi-view characters from that German site. I could import a few into Scratch, but I can't get some of them (like, on average, every 5th?) to work.  The thing is, they work fine with other programs.  I've tried everything.

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#4 2008-10-30 19:50:02

blazerv82
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Re: Picture uploading

I have had this problem. They need to be 256-color .bmp instead of 24-color .bmp files. That was my problem.


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#5 2008-10-30 19:55:03

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Re: Picture uploading

blazerv82 wrote:

I have had this problem. They need to be 256-color .bmp instead of 24-color .bmp files. That was my problem.

But then why would SOME of them work, and not the rest?  They were all from the same site.


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#6 2008-10-30 19:59:25

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Re: Picture uploading

SmartIrishKid wrote:

blazerv82 wrote:

I have had this problem. They need to be 256-color .bmp instead of 24-color .bmp files. That was my problem.

But then why would SOME of them work, and not the rest?  They were all from the same site.

I wouldn't know, as my pictures were the .PNG format and to make them appear in scratch, they needed to be 256 BMP instead of 24 BMP. How many diffrent pictures did you get?


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#7 2008-10-30 21:21:44

SmartIrishKid
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Re: Picture uploading

blazerv82 wrote:

...How many different pictures did you get?

Something like 458.  But I copied a few of them into another folder, and the same ones still didn't work.


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#8 2008-10-30 21:35:07

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Re: Picture uploading

SmartIrishKid wrote:

blazerv82 wrote:

...How many different pictures did you get?

Something like 458.  But I copied a few of them into another folder, and the same ones still didn't work.

Can you give me a rough estimate on what flie types they are and how many of each?


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#9 2008-10-30 22:09:39

SmartIrishKid
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Re: Picture uploading

Never mind, I'm just converting all of the files to 256 color.


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