Can the game only display square images?

[RPC]

I have a ship that is 160 px width and 240 px height, but

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<Image imageID="&rsNerefir;" imageX="-0" imageY="0" imageWidth="160" imageHeight="240" rotationCount="40"/>

is causing it to display really wonky.


If I try

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<Image imageID="&rsNerefir;" imageX="-10" imageY="0" imageWidth="240" imageHeight="240" rotationCount="40"/>

it displays normally but slightly off center to the left.

What do?

[AssumedPseudonym]

 I’d always meant to experiment with that, but never got around to it. If it isn’t working, though, I’d suggest padding the left and right sides with 40 pixels of black, just to square it up.

[RPC]

Yeah, AP is right.
Workaround (from Xephyr in IRC):
<Xephyr> In GIMP just go to Image>Canvas size, set it to 240 width, then click "Center"

This should pad the image until it's square and will display correctly.

[relanat]

Completely baseless speculation leads me to give the following vague comments.

Try 'imageX="0"' instead of '-0'.

Also make sure the ship is exactly central in the image. If it's a couple of pixels off to one side it looks weird.

Not sure what you mean by "wonky" but this might help. Shrugs.

Plus thanks, RPC. GIMP hints are always appreciated.

[RPC]

By wonky I meant that the ship's center was off to the side and not in the center of the screen.
Also yeah I caught the -0, that was when I thought I could trick the game so it would move the center of the ship.

[PM]

It used to be able to handle rectangular images, but that may not be the case anymore. If so, I forget when that regression happened.

[RPC]

Yeah I remember that too PM. I think the change from rectangle to square happened when George update the game to require masks.