Quick Backdrop with externally stored image?

[Crash86]

Is there any way to have a tiled backdrop that repeats as with the quick backdrop and store the image outside the .MFA file in order to reduce file size?

[uprize]

Err i dont think it would reduce file size really. MMF compresses all image data within in mfa.

[Crash86]

Yeah but it does it losslessly and the large images started out as JPEGs anyway so they take up a lot more space compressed as bitmaps in MMF2 than they do outside.

Anyhoo, thanks for the help.

[uprize]

Oh ok. Not sure that you can do that at runtime. Backdrops arn't really meant to have that much control.

[Quinto]

Use the Background Images object (doesn't work with HWA):

Start of frame:
-Set pattern mode: On
-Load Image from file into slot x
-Display Image from slot x

With this you can also load PNGs with alpha channel. :grin:

[Seraphim]

how i solve this problem:

i have active object. On frame start i load external image as frame to this active, and then in loop paste this image as background. I use this method for creating tiled background.

sorry for my english, i hope you understand me.