I am having trouble with drag and drop. When I try to drag in a picture/video to one side of the prop [in this case, a laptop computer screen prop], only a portion of it appears on the side of the prop I want (either the top left quarter, or, sometimes, half of the prop side). What to do?

Thanks.

Just a wild guess here but it could be that the laptop is broke down into individual triangles or faces that aren't mapped.

You might consider using a wall prop reduced down to the size of the laptop screen and properly positioned then attach. This would give you a single area to drag your video onto.

You might have to assign the wall prop uv mapping within iClone to get the video to cover it properly.

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The Laptop likely has poor UV mapping.

Try overlaying a flat plane where the screen should be and use that to place your image or video on. A surefire way of doing this is dragging in using the Right Mouse Button, then choosing Plane as the option to apply it to. Drag into an open are, even if you have to hide everything around the area until you can drag it in.

If that doesn't work, you could try changing the way the screen of the laptop is mapped such as Planar or Box. You'll find those options at the bottom of the Modify Panel...make sure you try the X, Y and Z axis to see which one fits best. Flat Planes are available under the Building Blocks that ship with iClone.

You can either link or attach the Plane to the laptop screen once positioned. If you decide on attaching, don't merge the two until you are absolutely sure it is positioned properly.



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The weird thing is that when I right mouse a video into the preview window in a clear area (and chose plane), the video only plays in the upper left corner of the new plane. In other words, even when I have a mapped plane, an inserted video (even a sample video supplied with iclone 4) only appears in part of the mapped plane, with blackness in the remainder.

Certain graphics hardware may require that textures be in a power of 2 in both dimensions to work with iClone as video textures.

So this means 1, 2, 4 , 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 etc are acceptable. The textures also don't normally have to be square but should be power of 2. So 1024 x 512 will be fine also.

So what can happen is that if you use a video of a standard size like 640 x 480 it will be converted to a video texture of say 512 x 512 to maintain the power of 2 structure. When your hardware doesn't handle this you can get problems like you are experiencing.

Try converting or use a video that is already power of 2 and see if this makes a difference. This will at least eliminate this as being the cause of the problem.

Also make sure you have your graphics drivers updated to the latest available.

                                                                

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