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JosefNemec / Playnite

Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games.
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"Select background image" menu should show the full image, not a cropped one #2298

Closed unrealed closed 3 years ago

unrealed commented 3 years ago

When adding a new background image, the selection screen for choosing the images will show us a cropped version of the image. That's a problem for vertical images because we'll often only see the top of that image in the background but there's no way to see what that's going to look like when selecting the image. The image that is displayed should show the full image, even if it means the thumbnail's going to be small.

Here's an example of the problem: image

Also, it would be nice if the "Select metadata to import" screen had a back button to go back to where it got sent from. I don't know if this problem applies to other kinds of images that are not background images (but I'm guessing it would too?)

JosefNemec commented 3 years ago

This is an issue because of preview sizes IGDB offers. The other alternative is only suitable for vertical images (resolution is too low for horizontal image), and since they are probably not used often, it takes ages for IGDB to generate them.

I would personally leave with as it is. Vertical backgrounds are imho very rare.

JosefNemec commented 3 years ago

Just to clarify my last message, the image is actually cropped on IGDB's side: https://images.igdb.com/igdb/image/upload/t_screenshot_med/ar4bo.jpg

JosefNemec commented 3 years ago

Closing, nothing I can do about it, thumbnails are already cropped on IGDB's side.