Can someone please explain why I’m experiencing this issue?

[Celestial_Night]

Hey guys!
So I am working on my story and I have compressed the PNGs and everything yet this continues to happen.
Basically, I uploaded an overlay (many different ones actually) and they are all turning out to be gigantic.
So basically, I have to zoom out till my zoom is at 0 to see them at full size and then since they are so big, they don’t shrink or move hardly at all.

I uploaded them like any other overlay I have uploaded and this is just now happening. My coding is completely normal, I’m fact I haven’t done anything except add them to the script (as in background with ——(overlay))

Can someone please explain what is going on here?

[AlexandraD]

have you reset your zooming in the scene? double check.

sometimes it will appear huge because of the length and width of the png image itself. you just scale it down in the previewer

[Celestial_Night]

Haha yea, I normally can do that but like this is huge so it doesn’t scale down

[AlexandraD]

so it seems one more person is experiencing this atm. i just saw a post about it. i think it’s a glitch.

[Celestial_Night]

It’s extremely annoying because I can’t really do anything at the moment since I need me overlays…

[Celestial_Night]

Does episode even know this glitch exists?

[AlexandraD]

not sure

[Celestial_Night]

Well now I need to find someone foot at making text overlays because those are the ones having the most trouble.

Really hoping Episode fixes this soon, as it is making it really difficult to actually code

[Sydney_H]

Moved to Directing Helps and Tips since this is about coding. Make sure to check out our Forum Tutorial for more info about creating topics, and feel free to PM me if you’ve got questions.

[Elaina2]

Someone else had the same issue and it was because she was using the black background in the art catalog. Would you happen to be using that background too?

Overlay is WAY too big

So I have two overlays that are showing up WAY too big. I have to scale them down to .01 for them to show up the correct size. I don’t know why, and this has never happened to me before. I tried changing the code a bunch of times, I tried updating the script, I tried reuploading the overlays, I tried closing out and reopening the browser, I even tried restarting my entire computer… Nothing is working! I checked the size of the overlays and they’re only at 481x192. There is no reason for them to…

[Mystery.Author]

If you’re using the INT. BLACK - NIGHT background, that’s probably why. It scales overlays really weirdly for some reason. I had this issue & then I uploaded my own black background and it’s sorted it. Hope this helps!

[Celestial_Night]

Yep it sure is!

[shreya.epi]

Hmm… that’s really weird. But what I would do is just go to pixlr.com or photoshop, gimp, etc. and just upload the image, size it down, and upload it as an overlay again.

[Farah_DeSantis]

Then just upload your own black background and the problem will be most likely solved.

[Celestial_Night]

Yep I did thank you

@Sydney_H could you please close this?