Algodoo

I can't chet it out right now because my laptop has broken, but it seems to be very funny to watch, as the external thumb shows, .

Looks good. This scene has better surfer and water control, more surfer flexibility, and a better thumbnail image than my scene. Please let me know if you know of any way to create a custom thumbnail.

I asked electronicboy, and he said "best method I know is to overlay an image which is removed when the scene starts playing". And I thought of another way which would be by focusing the camera on a specific area of the scene that you want to be the thumbnail just prior to uploading it. Then when the scene starts, you can have a script change the zoom and pan to the portion of the scene where the camera should be to normally run the scene.

Thanks!

EDIT: Later, during our Skype chat, kilinich said: "Actually, I was first who start making custom thumbnails) You need new clear scene, put image in it, save, unpack, get new thumb.png file and read its checksum. Then put it in desired .phz file and update checksum there)"

So, there ya go.... Three different ways to do it.

I had tried method #3 in the past and Algodoo handled it OK but Algobox rejected it, so I fell back to method #1. I just retried method #3 except instead of using a "new clear scene", I used the original scene, paused it half way through, and then saved it. I then updated the thumb.png and checksum in the original scene and now it's working OK.

Thanks for the response. I wouldn't have retried it if you hadn't said anything.