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    Playing the animation in the state

    Hi, guys! This is my first thread, so sorry if i break some forum rules.) I am developing some RPG game. I have an object for enemies and I use some kind of state machine for them (code below). In some states (damaged, death, etc.), a certain animation needs to be played. There are some...
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    GameMaker Best Way to Create Enemy Animations?

    The way I worded the question is definitely not what I mean, but I'll try explaining the best I can. Basically, I'm making a 2.5D sword fighting game where you can fight against enemies which all are uniquely different. Clearly, this means that the enemies will all have numerous animations...
  3. adriannn1992

    Asset - Graphics Fantasy characters vol1

    Hello! I have a fantasy pixel-art character asset pack for 2D sidescrollers and platformers! You can buy it on itch.io: https://clockworkmustache.itch.io/fantasy-characters-vol1 Game maker marketplace: https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/11379/fantasy-characters-vol1 2 player and 25...
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    Freeze object mid-animation

    Hello! So I have this duck animation made out of 4 frames. When I press the down key I want to play frame 1, frame 2 and freeze on frame 2. When I release the down key I want to play the rest of the animation (frames 3 and 4). How do I do that? Thanks! Bonus question. I have a jump animation...
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    Need Help Using Sequences for Character Animations

    I am working on a RPG that has various armor and animations using different sprites to piece together the characters. The new sequences pretty much does that and it will make it a lot easier to make new animations. All I need to do is figure out how to change the sprites within the sequence...
  6. kureoni

    animations while moving

    i already did all the animations for the player for a topdown game, how can i make gmstudio run the walking animation when the obj_player is moving, and run a different animation when he is stopped??
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    GameMaker Character is off set in game

    This is my second game i've tried to make and they have both had this problem. I gave up on the first one because it wasnt important to me. This one though I am going all the way through. When I made the collisions everything worked. It looked like this: /// @description Physics //Keys key_left...
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    Portfolio - Art Artist/Animator Available (2D)

    Hi im sure you read the title before click so i'll get to the point here is a preview of my style. Here is a link to my animation profile. https://www.anim8.io/users/quinsilva/studio Feel free to support me, it really encourages me to keep making content or just comment and share with your...
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    GameMaker Character Animations Getting Cut-Off For Unknown Reasons [not yet solved]

    So, as Simon pointed out: -which I did not know, so yay for learning. And, while putting image_index = 0; at the beginning of the Elf_Shooting/states.shooting script only resulted in the PC freezing in the first frame of any shooting animation, buy putting the same line inside of the...
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    GameMaker Roll animation continues during a collision if I'm moving

    So I'm following HeartBeast's youtube tutorial for the Hack n' Slash game in GMS2 and I've run into a problem with the roll animation. It works perfectly unless I start the roll outside of a collision and roll into something. If I hold down the right key it just loops the roll animation...
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    Hotline Miami Player Animations and Controls

    Hi there, I am trying to do a top down shooter and I absolutly love Hotline Miami's character animations and style however I have run into a problem. I realised that the player is actually two seperate sprites, one for the head and body and one for the legs. That way the legs move with WASD and...
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    Directional key controller animations not working.

    Hi everyone I am working on a little project here and I have made a fully functional movement controls for the directional keys the only problem is that my animation sprites won't play when I push the buttons. 2 of them work fine(left and right) but the other 2(up and down) are always stuck on...
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    How I can do this?

    On the example, mario and yoshi are two objects separately, and can make one, and can separate them, i dont have idea how i can do two objects convert in one and separate them later, any idea please? thanx for help
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    drawing animation issue

    Hey boys and girls, how are you all doing?Hope well! I have got this problem that i've seen solved in some threads but i couldnt really solve myselfe (probably just because im bad at programming ahah) first and foremost here is my lil' bit o' code if (atk1 == true) { sprite_index =...
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    GameMaker multiple animations per sprite strip

    does any body know the best way to do virtual animations where I can specify what frames are in the animation and how fast it animates, but use a single sprite strip? for example I might have this image and I might have animations of it rolling left, rolling right, tilting left, tilting right...
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    Legacy GM Action Platformer Shooting Animation

    Hey people, Lately I have been looking around on a good way to implement shooting animations into my game. But I cannot find any good resources on how to do this. All the guides and tutorials I find on how to implement this are form a top-down perspective. The shooting itself isn't the issue...
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    Legacy GM Swapping Weapon Objects

    Hello all! I am new to Game maker studio and started my first project 2 weeks ago. I followed all the steps on heartbeast youtube channel (all 32 videos on the beginner tutorial). Once I got that far I wanted to back step, that is to say undo the edits I made to my game following video 32. This...
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    Player Walking...

    I am creating an RPG in the style of the Mother Games and Undertale. I have created separate sprites for my overworld character. One going up, One going down, One going left and One going right. Each contains to images that create a sort of animation. I have programmed it so when you press the...
  19. David Richard

     Custom tile animation frames

    You know, I'm REALLY trying to find myself at home with GMS2 but MAN, this is hard. Not even 5 minutes returning inside the program and I've got something else that does not work. I have 6 frame animations in a tileset I made but GMS2 does not permit to have a 6, 10 or 3 frames tile animations...
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    Legacy GM Help Drawing Text Showing Increased Points (Hotline Miami Style)

    Hey everyone, I have a question. In Hotline Miami you know how every time you hit someone there is a flashing animation that shows an increase in points? How do you do that? Is it created as an object and the animation is ran that way, or is there some type of alarm set up? Hotline Miami is...
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