Image and Gif Zones

Image zones will allow you to display an image within the confines of the zone. In contrast to an image background, image zones can be moved and sized arbitrarily around a room, and can be layered atop one another. Note however that image zones will still never appear above attendee avatars (unlike image foregrounds).

Image zones will accept jpg, png, and gif formats.

Image zones can also be set to spritesheet mode to create simple animated images using lightweight spritesheet images.

• Image File: This allows you to select an image from the assets you have uploaded to your venue. This file can be changed at any time.
• Fit: This defines how the image will fit itself into the confines of the zone you have defined.
  • Cover: Attempt to cover the entirety of the component while maintaining the image's proportions, clipping the sides of it off if necessary.
  • Contain: Attempt to contain the entire image within the zone without clipping or warping the image.
  • Stretch: Fill the entirety of the component by stretching the image across the zone regardless of proportions.
  • Auto: Attempt to select the best option for the provided image and zone.
• Spritesheet: This defines whether or not the image should be treated as a spritesheet. If this is enabled, several more settings will appear:
  • Frame Height/Width: These allow you to define how large a single gridsquare on your spritesheet is. Your image will be divided into a grid with these dimensions and be read left-to-right, line-by-line.
  • Steps: This defines how many frames your animation has in total. The spritesheet will be read and iterated this many times before stopping and looping.
  • FPS: This allows you to set the speed of your animation via the frames-per-second. By default, this is set to 10.
  • Direction: This allows you to play your animation backwards (i.e, read your spritesheet from right-to-left). By default, this is set to Forward.
  • Autoplay: This determines if the animation starts playing as soon as an attendee enters the room. Like all settings, this can be toggled while attendees are already in the room to control playback.
  • Repeat: This determines if the animation will loop upon ending.

Gif Zones

Gif zones are a subtype of Image Zones which are specifically optimized to display animated gifs. They are always set to "Contain" fit modes and automatically loop and autoplay their content.

Gif zones can utilize gifs uploaded to your asset list, or they can use external links to any popular gif repository website.