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AetherBones
How to make pseudo 3D sound in all direction in a top down 2D game.
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RefresherTowel
Yaazarai
Render Shader to Surface without surface/sprite render call?
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RujiK
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GameMaker Optimizing SWF Animation (Animate export/GAF)
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Lord KJWilliams
Is it possible to create a game menu w/booter using GML?
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Lord KJWilliams
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Is there a quicker method to remove part of a buffer?
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Lord KJWilliams
GameMaker My CS professor reversed engineered my game to run faster using assembly
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Juju
Juju
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GameMaker Basic crafting system
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Thijmen Langendam
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Lord KJWilliams
Integrating the programming language Ruby into GML , for better code structure designs in GMS
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Lord KJWilliams
Lord KJWilliams
Questions about the uses and equivalent of Cs const volatile variable declarations in gml
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kburkhart84
kburkhart84
FoxyOfJungle
GameMaker I have found a way to HACK HMAC hash Encryption
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FoxyOfJungle
FoxyOfJungle
AllCrimes
Performance testing (Including structs)
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GMWolf
GMWolf
PNelly
Nonsensical IP and port values in async_load[]
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PNelly
PNelly
vdweller
Question about how GM handles tilemaps / tilemap animations
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vdweller
vdweller
Lord KJWilliams
values represented in a double variable in GML
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Lord KJWilliams
Lord KJWilliams
TheouAegis
Brain Fart: Make this code work in 8bit?
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TheouAegis
TheouAegis
Lord KJWilliams
Can Frustum Viewing or Occlusion Culling be used in GMS Vector Graphics ?
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kburkhart84
kburkhart84
vdweller
Any clever hacks to make surface contents permanent each frame?
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Simon Gust
Simon Gust
IGameArt
Curious: Model slicing with infinite plane
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IGameArt
IGameArt
peardox
Mac M1 not attempting to load extension library
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Sam (Deleted User)
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buffer it, aww yeah that's real nice and good
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Sam (Deleted User)
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Sierpinski's triangle
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TheSnidr
Converting recursive function to iterative [Solved]
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AIO1
iOS Create an iOS extension calling a .dylib from objective-c code
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AIO1
AIO1
VacantShade
Legacy GM Optimizing a Fluctuating Grid Algorithm
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VacantShade
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GameMaker [SOLVED] Trouble With Coding AI Pathfinding With Wormholes/Teleporters
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peardox
Returning char* from UWP Dlls
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peardox
peardox
Jihl
Question on how to use Game Maker features for more than ten thousand objects
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vdweller
vdweller
Evanski
GameMaker What is best practice for String compares?
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Evanski
Evanski
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[SOLVED] MFC/VB6 in GameMaker?
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Bart
SOLVED Optimizing terrain z value calculations
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Joe Ellis
Joe Ellis
Anixias
GameMaker Lag-Friendly Real-Time Networking Tips
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meseta
meseta
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GameMaker [SOLVED] Return 1d Array from Native Extension Function?
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angelwire
GameMaker [Solved] HLSL 11 Shaders - Problems generating and using depth map
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Let's Clone
Let's Clone
Juju
More macro abuse to solve ds_exists() not differentiating DS types
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Juju
Juju
Juju
What can be done with GLSL extension directives?
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Bart
Bart
flyingsaucerinvasion
Discussion Eliminate banding in low-contrast gradients.
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FoxyOfJungle
FoxyOfJungle
bacteriaman
Calculating y-axis values between two points
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bacteriaman
bacteriaman
2DKnights
(Solved) Saving data to webserver HTML5
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2DKnights
2DKnights
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[SOLVED] get_directory(dname)
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Sam (Deleted User)
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Anixias
SOLVED Mapping Delete Key to ord("\x7F") For Use With keyboard_lastchar
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Anixias
Anixias
IGameArt
Static Meshes: Vertex Buffer Combining?
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IGameArt
IGameArt
Anixias
GameMaker Networking: Determine how long a packet took to arrive
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Anixias
Anixias
nickhadder
Handling mobs and their collisions in a multiplayer game with multiple rooms
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nickhadder
nickhadder
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Legacy GM Binaries / Bytes ... performance and structural optimization.
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Yaazarai
Yaazarai
GMWolf
Constructor showdown
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bacteriaman
GameMaker [SOLVED] JSON encoding with nested object inside an array
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bacteriaman
bacteriaman
The Reverend
Explanation of corner id? [solved]
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Bart
Bart
vdweller
Discussion I made a decent R-Tree collision system in C++ ... and then Gamemaker beat me in this scenario.
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vdweller
vdweller
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(macOS, C++) how to get active window's title bar text?
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Tthecreator
Tthecreator
bacteriaman
[SOLVED] synchronizing movement of objects in a circle
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bacteriaman
bacteriaman
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