Best way to add an actor

mythicappsmythicapps Member Posts: 82
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
What is the best way to add an actor?

I created a new blank GS project, iPad / Landscape.
I then added 2 images.

For image 1, I dragged and dropped it onto the scene.

For image 2, I created an actor and then dragged the image into the "Drag Image Here" box, then dragged the actor onto the scene.

Image two shows in the main window and in preview as being twice the size of Image 1, but Image 2 is a copy of image 1 and is in fact the same size as it.

So, which is the right way to do it?

Comments

  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    if you place an image with the actor open for editing it just puts the image in but if you drag an image in to create an actor it sizes the actor based on the image size. The default actor size is 100x100 so thats prob why you see it as twice the size. If you had Resolution independence check it would size the actor at half the image size.

    Also if you drag a new image onto an existing actor it will resize based on the new image size. but if you open the actor and place the image the actor will keep its set size.
  • mythicappsmythicapps Member Posts: 82
    tenrdrmer said:
    if you place an image with the actor open for editing it just puts the image in but if you drag an image in to create an actor it sizes the actor based on the image size. The default actor size is 100x100 so thats prob why you see it as twice the size. If you had Resolution independence check it would size the actor at half the image size.

    Also if you drag a new image onto an existing actor it will resize based on the new image size. but if you open the actor and place the image the actor will keep its set size.

    Got it, thanks for the great explanation.
    That makes perfect sense.

    Thanks.
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    No Prob but like TSB said no right or wrong way. just depends on how you want the new actor to act.

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