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P3D v2 Problem adding background image v. 1.66
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Can you please upload the image file to a post here so that I can check it.
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I get an out of memory error. The problem is not the disk size of the image file but the amount of memory it needs to display. We have covered this before but it bears covering again. Your image is 12032 x 9216 x 24bpp. To display it ADE needs to find 12032 x 9216 x 3 = 332660736 or 332.6Mb of free memory. Worse this must be in a single continuous chunk. The chances of finding this is rather small and if it is not found ADE will generate an out of memory error. This has nothing to do with the total amount of memory that you have on your computer but finding that amount in a single continuous chunk in the memory allocated to ADE by the operating system.
ADE assigns 1 pixel per meter in the display so your image is in effect 12km x 9.2km. We changed ADE a bit to stop crashes with big images. The answer is to use smaller images in terms of the width and length. These will require less memory and increase the chances of the memory being available. So you might need to break that image into say four.
I don't understand the error message that it is not a jpg. ADE certainly recognized it as a jpg but could not find the memory to load it.
ADE assigns 1 pixel per meter in the display so your image is in effect 12km x 9.2km. We changed ADE a bit to stop crashes with big images. The answer is to use smaller images in terms of the width and length. These will require less memory and increase the chances of the memory being available. So you might need to break that image into say four.
I don't understand the error message that it is not a jpg. ADE certainly recognized it as a jpg but could not find the memory to load it.
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No worries. For a long time I have tried to figure out how to get round this but the graphics engine I use creates a bitmap as I describe above so there is no way other than making them smaller or reducing the color depth to solve it. There are some tricks like reducing the size of the image with an external app. Once it is in ADE it will need to be resized to the airport again but there is also an option to reduce the image quality in ADE:
This does require the image be in ADE first and setting lower quality will make the image less clear and more blocky but it does reduce the memory footprint.
This does require the image be in ADE first and setting lower quality will make the image less clear and more blocky but it does reduce the memory footprint.