Images not showing up

[Danielle]

Ok so I have a game that I made in MMF2. I understand that when you make a stand alone exe it needs to be with the folder containing images used in the game in order for them to show up. I am trying to switch the game over into an internet app with Vitalize but the image objects (picture and background) are not showing up with just the ccn file. What is weird to me is that an image file is used for both a picture object and an active object and only the active objects are showing up. Any advice?

[Yves]

Edit the Image Filters property in the properties of the application, unselect "Automatic" and select the filters you need. Does that solve your problem?

This issue is fixed in the build 249.

[Danielle]

Yeah I've tried that, I also unselected/reselected the image options just in case.

[Jeff]

Are you calling the images with an http path?

Perhaps you could make a little example MFA of the problem and then people can play around and see how to make it work.

[method72]

from my experience, if you create and active picture, it seems to need to load that in from a file. But if you create and active object and then load an image into it, it seems that it then stores that image into the engine, and you do not need to keep the origional file in the folder any longer.

in essence, it seems active pictures have a pointer to a physical external file but an active object is embeded.

in my hidden object game i am using active objects to display by scene background, since they do not get modified at all, once i load them in, there in for good, also with this format i do not need to distribute my background scenes, and worry about someone trying to hack with my art assets since they are all built into the exe. Now this may become an issue in .exe size depending on your assets, but it has not been an issue for me personally.