preview screen does not support a new EMC wall

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Martijn
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preview screen does not support a new EMC wall

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Accidentally I saw this when I was creating a level...

As you know, there are many new EMC objects available in the level editor. Of the normal walls (from the EMC objects), there is one wall that consists of two parts. Put one of these parts (or both of course) in your level and go to the main menu where you can see the preview. It displays the place of the normal wall as empty!

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> Of the normal walls (from the EMC objects), there is one wall that
> consists of two parts. Put one of these parts (or both of course) in your
> level and go to the main menu where you can see the preview. It displays
> the place of the normal wall as empty!

Yes, I know. This is because of the simple downscaling algorithm that is used to create the preview graphics -- it just only takes every n-th pixel from the original to build the preview graphic. The graphics for the element you mentioned just by chance has only black pixels, so the resulting preview graphic is totally black for this element.

I've just fixed this by using a simple interpolation of all pixels. This will cause preview graphics (and also editor graphics) to look more like the original (but will also result in slightly "blurred" graphics when they looked a bit "sharper" before, but the overall result should be better now).

Soon to be seen in 3.2.1. ... :-)
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