16:9 background help (1 Viewer)

[DarkYami]

once upon a time i had vanilla SDT downloaded then came the official death of flash. Then came the total kill of my computer that had SDT.(lost all backups)
a year ish later i found undertow and have started learning loader(only a few days in as of this post)
I am still building a collection of mods and many have not yet been explored
I am trying to get a functional 16:9 background working I used to have one that I used on all my vanilla saves. All the backgrounds that are 16:9 here on undertow that I have tryed when loading threw the character folder brake something or don't load or brake something and don't load depending on what way I try and load it. I have a number of 16:9 jpg and png files but they always crop to 4:3 when i try and load them.

what am I not doing or how do i get one of these backgrounds to load properly?
I would even settle for a 16:9 version of BG:2; in the code file(main background i am going for is a sort of dungion or bedroom)
Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[RokPhenix]

try to load a big picture will not load a XL background.
You need to load a swf file hd background.
Did you try to set the line 31 in your Settings.txt with this ? :

bordersEnabled=0

 

[BlueZephyr]

I meant to comment on this sooner but wasn't for sure myself. Taking a second look I can tell you that jpg and png will automatically crop to the lower left corner regardless of size. To get a wide background you need a swf then resize the window to fit it. It won't automatically resize the window when loading a wide background swf. SyntaxTerror has lots of HD/XL backgrounds to choose from. I use them frequently. Also btw, use the button for SWF mod instead of Background.

 

[sby]

for basic pictures that are just wider than the default background size, use this init mod:

https://www.undertow.club/downloads/xlstaticbgload.8121/

otherwise, if you have a specially crafted swf background that does animations or handles its own widescreen, just load those as a swf mod (so not the 'background' load button in the game).

 

[SyntaxTerror]

You can make your own HD backgrounds with one of mine (like Bar 01, that have 16/9 precum flashing).
You just need to replace the image with JPEXS decompiler (Perdition made a tutorial about this program: Making basic Isolation Mods).
Download the SWF HD background, extract the image with JPEXS, edit it with any image editor (keep the dimentions at 1122×825 px) and replace it in the SWF, it should work fine.
It's kinda the same method as in my little tutorial in post #4.

I wanted to make a complete tutorial about this, and even a way to make SWF costumes without having to use Flash Pro/Animate and only JPEXS, but I lost interest... And in the meantime, my PC also got wasted.

 

[DarkYami]

I am sorry for the late response I have been rather busy with work stuff.
I did find a semi workable solution using a mod that lets you switch stuff on the same character loading the backgrounds that way.

for reference syntax a number of your widescreen backgrounds were ones i was trying to use initially but they would not load as part of the character i would have to load the character then load the background then fix the character cause loading the backgrounds would brake things any which way i tried without using some sort of mod to handle the backgrounds the bedroom ones and the bar ones were the ones i tried.

i will look into some of the other stuff mentioned here when i get a chance

 

[SyntaxTerror]

but they would not load as part of the character i would have to load the character then load the background then fix the character cause loading the backgrounds would brake things

It seems strange because as far as I can remember, my backgrounds do not change CustomData.
Most of the times it is the superfluous CustomData of the SWFs/MODs that mess things up, but there is not much you can do without editing the code. Maybe it is possible to edit/remove CustomData with JPEXS decompiler?
I made a regex/script that removes all the unwanted things of CustomData if it can help: Custom Data Cleaner.

Anyway, if it is a problem with the Loader, I'm afraid that I cannot answer, because I never learnt how to use it.

Good luck anyway.