My animated background image is a fraction of its size when testing and published

[Fred-Clayjar]

I am using the 2021 Animate and working on a HTML 5 canvas. My background is a movie clip symbol where I have an ocean scene using a mask to animate the water. It is larger than pixel size of my file. It covers the entire background.

But when I test it, it is so very small and in the top left corner. I don't know why. 

This is how it looks in Animate.

And this is how it looks when I test it.

[kglad]

in animate click the free transform tool > click your ocean movieclip > move the pivot point to the movieclip's center.

[Fred-Clayjar]

Thanks. The pivot point is already in the movie clip's center. So it is not that. It shrinks the ocean movieclip for some reason.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

is the first image the animate stage?

if so, scale the bitmap so its stage size or edit it (eg, in  ps) so it's stage size.

[Fred-Clayjar]

Thanks, kglad! Yes, the first image is the Animate stage.  That worked. I resized the ocean image in Photoshop to size of stage in Animate. Then imported into Animate and replaced the old ocean image.

I guess Animate doesn't like to resize images. I appreciate the help!

[kglad]

you're welcome.