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I am trying to add a background image (BMP), I keep getting the error "invalid file type" this is not a valid image???

I am about to pull my hair out.
 
I am not in a place to check this exactly but as I recall ADE will not accept BMP files. This is because they are not compressed and therefore can be very large. As George says convert it to JPG and try that.
 
I use bmp for ADE all the time. There is a tab in the options to select the file type to be used.

Image Options.JPG

Though there's a warning for sizes over 9Mb (I think), the program does work for files larger than that. I haven't tested for how large a file it can accommodate. In this case I would also test for whether the bmp file itself is corrupt or non-standard.
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Gary_Hayes said:
I am trying to add a background image (BMP), I keep getting the error "invalid file type" this is not a valid image???

I am about to pull my hair out.
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Hello:

Please tell us how large is the *.BMP file in MB, and what graphics application was used to create that *.BMP image ? :scratchch

GaryGB
 
As it happens that property page is for setting the type and naming convention for images created with ADE, not for images imported into ADE for the background
 
I stand corrected on loading .bmp files. To be honest it is so long since I looked at that code. A number of people have questioned the size issue in the past. Here is one thread that explains it to some degree

https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/background-image-issues.425566/#post-633212

So size does matter. It is better to have a number of smaller images and also load only those you need for the work you are doing.

As to invalid format then that probably not related to ADE constraints but may be a bad image.
 
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