Texture as a background

[indy2005]

Hi,

Is there any way to bring in a texture purely as a background image?
I want to "trace" a motorbike from an image, so just need the image in
the background while I create appropriate physics elements on top of
the image?

I tried adding a Texture into the library but pressing Enter does
nothing.

Regards

i

[Frank]

Hi indy,

There's a simple way of doing that.
1)add the Sprite to the library
2)Create a rectangle of the size of the box
3)Add a Sprite to that rectangle (Going to Object->Set Sprite (select
your sprite))
4)Trace your motorbike on top of the image... once done. Remove the
initial rectangle and you got the physics elements.

Hope that's what you wanted.

[indy2005]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mainframe.pyo", line 3955, in onEnter
File "system.pyo", line 3224, in __getattr__
AttributeError: appDir

[Fahreddın Basegmez]

I will fix this.  In the mean time you can type

system.appDir == system.dataDir

in the interpreter or code editor prior to adding textures.

If you type

>>> system.dataDir

and hit enter in the Python interpreter this should give you a directory path.  There is a subdirectory called brushes in this directory.  If you copy your texture file into this directory (you need to name the file as groupname_texturename.png (or gif or jpg)).  Then when you start Mekanimo, you can see this texture among others in the assign texture menu.

There are similar problems with sprites due to system.appDir.  You can resolve those issues in a similar way.

Thanks for the feedback.

Fahri

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[Fahri]

Now, it's been corrected.

http://mekanimodownload.s3.amazonaws.com/mekanimo_setup_1.55.exe

[indy2005]

Great thanks