Adding screenshots problem

Started by elentgirl, Mon 18/08/2014 17:50:34

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elentgirl

I have just added a new game to the AGS database and wanted to add some screenshots.  I tried doing this using the same method as I have before, a direct link to the file on my online storage at Box.com.  This time it did not work and all that is displayed is a small black box with an X in it.  To try to discover what I had done differently before I looked at the listing for a previous game.  I saw that the URLs for screenshots are changed to AGS ones, so I could get no useful information from them.  When I came out from the entry for that other game, the existing screenshots were corrupted, with large bands of flat colour across the base of each.  I tried reloading the screenshots from my on-line storage but got only the small back squares with Xs again.  I notice also, that when I included a link in the forums to add screenshots to my posting about my new game, instead of showing the image as has happened before, the link was displayed and had to be clicked to be taken to the image.  Can anyone help as I now have two game entries showing Xs instead of screen shots?
Thank you,
Elen

Tabata

I just realized that your screenshots are done in .jpg.
Did you try to use an image in .png?

Cassiebsg

Try this (from your Haunted Castle thread):

Code: ags

[img]https://app.box.com/shared/static/slsxx7yacvw0m3tz2zhd.jpg[/img]


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elentgirl

Thank you Cassiebsg for your helpful advice.  It worked very well of the posting in the forum.

Unfortunately, I have yet to find a solution for loading the screenshots into the AGS database so that they display correctly.  I tried using the .png format rather than the .jpg, but it made no difference.

Thank you for your assistance.
Elen

AGA

Screenshots are resized so they show properly on the games page, among other things.  As your screenshot file is a non standard size (being 3x wider and 2x taller than a normal AGS screen), things go wrong.  Try choosing three separate screens to upload, instead of cramming six together.

elentgirl

Hello AGA

The multiple screenshots on my forum post was put together for that alone.  The images I have been trying to add to the AGS database are standard 640x480 jpg's.  In fact, on my other game entry (Adventure Island) I was attempting to reload the same images I had previously used with no problems after the originals became corrupted when I updated something else on my entry.  If someone can suggest something I can try to get them displaying properly I would be very grateful.

Many thanks,
Elen

AGA

Let me know where the originals are uploaded, and I'll see what I can do.  For this, and your other game.

elentgirl

Quote from: AGA on Tue 19/08/2014 14:14:33
Let me know where the originals are uploaded, and I'll see what I can do.  For this, and your other game.
All my game files are stored on Box.com.  The URLs below are direct links to the screenshot files, generated by Box.com.
The main image for Haunted Castle is: https://app.box.com/shared/static/361b6is6eqnxt4x7e0qh.jpg
Two other screenshots that I'd like to include are: https://app.box.com/shared/static/jeqzsik8n5dz0kqux1zk.jpg
and: https://app.box.com/shared/static/6zla5ouwsfvs17p009yx.jpg

For my other game (Adventure Island), the three screenshots are on the links below:
https://app.box.com/shared/static/ahctwlt9fkpxp4ustt2z.jpg
https://app.box.com/shared/static/5yjmzvi9u0vyy6n1qi5r.jpg
https://app.box.com/shared/static/umtysunqluu3cdi5df2t.jpg

You will notice if you look at the Adventure Island entry in the database that I gave up trying to reload the images when the second one came up with a small black square.  The third one still shows the original image in is corrupted form.

Thank for all your assistance,
Elen

AGA

Okay, the reason seemed to be that some of your screenshots were malformed for some reason.  When I opened them up and resaved them they worked fine, and are now all uploaded.

elentgirl

Quote from: AGA on Wed 20/08/2014 09:29:59
Okay, the reason seemed to be that some of your screenshots were malformed for some reason.  When I opened them up and resaved them they worked fine, and are now all uploaded.

Thank you so much for doing that for me.  I really appreciate it!  Do you have any idea why they were malformed?  It seems to have affected all the images I uploaded on Monday, yet the Adventure Island ones were exactly the same files I have uploaded successfully before, and you had no problem with them.  Can you offer any suggestions in case it happens again?  I feel it must be something I'm doing.

Once again, many thanks,
Elen

AGA

I honestly have no idea.  What I ended up doing to fix it was save the files as BMPs before uploading them again.  Worked perfectly then, for whatever reason...

elentgirl

Quote from: AGA on Wed 20/08/2014 20:57:41
I honestly have no idea.  What I ended up doing to fix it was save the files as BMPs before uploading them again.  Worked perfectly then, for whatever reason...

Thanks anyway.  Perhaps I'll try that if I encounter the problem again!

Best wishes,
Elen

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