Scale factor for Image Layer

[fmoo]

Is there an easy way to apply a scale factor for an image layer? Would be nice to not have to double the size of the input image.

[bjorn]

There isn't, but if you place your image as a tile object, you can resize it.

Since this is essentially duplication of functionality, I'm hesitant to add image scaling to the image layer.

[karai17]

I really have to wonder if the image layer is even a useful feature in Tiled, when simply importing the image as a single tile tileset and tossing it in as an object gives it far, far more functionality and flexibility. Why not just axe the image layer and recommend to people that they do that instead?

[bjorn]

Of course, when the image layer was added (with Tiled 0.9, #169), tile objects (added in Tiled 0.6) were a lot more primitive. Yet, even then the image layer didn't add any new functionality. :-/

So yeah, the feature should really just be dropped. I think usability-wise though, some people are using this feature for foreground or background layers. And at the moment using tile objects for these would be very annoying since there is no way to avoid selecting them (short of making their layer invisible). So what I'd like to add first is layer locking, and then I can deprecate image layers because there's no reason left to use them.

[karai17]

Sounds good to me.

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Landon Manning
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On 20 July 2016 at 16:34, Thorbjørn Lindeijer notifications@github.com
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Of course, when the image layer was added (with Tiled 0.9, #169
#169), tile objects (added in
Tiled 0.6) were a lot more primitive. Yet, even then the image layer didn't
add any new functionality. :-/

So yeah, the feature should really just be dropped. I think usability-wise
though, some people are using this feature for foreground or background
layers. And at the moment using tile objects for these would be very
annoying since there is no way to avoid selecting them (short of making
their layer invisible). So what I'd like to add first is layer locking, and
then I can deprecate image layers because there's no reason left to use
them.

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