Please forgive this esoteric post! Feel free to skip over it if you have no idea what I’m talking about. A friend asked me for the dimensions required for making custom art work using aminovas’ tutorial, and the answer is kind of long so I thought I’d post it here.

For photos I’m going to give you two sets of dimensions. The first I’ll refer to as Unstretched and are the dimensions at which your image should look in proportion, in order for it appear as you intended in game. The second I’ll refer to as DSS and are the dimensions you need for the final DSS file you swap in using S3PE. The image will look stretched out in the DSS file but will appear correctly in game, provided you get everything right.

Paintings are a bit more complicated because part of the image gets cut off in game (on top of the stretching issue shared with photos), so you have to create margins . For paintings I’ll provide a third and fourth set of dimensions, which I’ll refer to as Margins and Unstretched Plus Margins.

For all the dimenions I’ll put width first and height second. Some of them might surprise you – for example the DSS file for the large portrait photo needs to be wider than it is high – but that’s just the way it is.

I never got round to working out the dimensions for the panoramic photo, but I have all the others. Here we go.

 

Small Portrait Photo

Unstretched: 256×316

DSS: 256×256

 

Medium Landscape Photo

Unstretched: 512×412

DSS: 512×256

 

Large Portrait Photo

Unstretched: 512×638

DSS: 512×256

 

Small Landscape Painting

Unstretched: 396×256

Margins: 55, left and right

Unstretched Plus Margins: 506×256

DSS: 256×256

 

Medium Portrait Painting

Unstretched: 172×277

Margins: 42, left and right

Unstretched Plus Margins: 256×277

DSS: 256×256

 

Large Landscape Painting

Unstretched: 343×216

Margins: 20, top and bottom

Unstretched Plus Margins: 343×256

DSS: 256×256

 

You can double these dimensions to make the images appear better quality in game, but it will cause problems with custard, so I wouldn’t do that if you’re making something you want to share.

Another thing that will make custard go crazy is if any of the photos are registered by the game as being of anything other than ‘nothing’, so make sure you’re just taking a photo of the grass or sky or something like that, and check the photos themselves before you start messing around with replacing the images.

I usually make my photos and paintings of coloured floor tiles, and I colour code the different sizes so that when I get into S3PE I know which is which.

 

Good luck!