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    HTML5 Suggestion: page-pixel to screen-pixel support

    Given the fact that Game Maker Studio 2 generally is so tailored towards making pixelart or other low resolution 2D games. It really should have native support to resize the game window on HTML5 such that one pixel in the game is one pixel on the screen. As it is right now, its rendered such...
  2. Hirou

    GML Going back from fullscreen messes up the window.

    This started happening out of the blue some weeks ago, the game starts windowed mode, 640x480 to be precise, when fullscreening, it fullscreens, but then when I go back to window mode, the window is borderless and the black bars from the fullscreen are still there, thus stretching the whole...
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    [SOLVED] Changing resolution in-game

    Hey, I havent received answers on Legacy Tech support, Im using GMS1.4. and trying to figure how to change Aspect ratio in-game. I'd prefer it to be so that in the beginning of the game, players can choose the resolution. And then it'll stay like that for the rest of the game. The game is played...
  4. M

    Switching screen aspect ratio in-game

    Is there a way to let players switch the games aspect ratio in-game, from Keep aspect ratio to Full scale and vice versa? Like in Options menu etc.
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    Pixel distortion occurring without touching a single thing.

    My problem is exactly as stated. After pulling my hair out for for idek how long messing with drawing surfaces and viewports and cameras I ultimately decided to open a new project file, make a sprite the size of the default room and see if distortion STILL occurred when going fullscreen and it...
  6. Rafael Augusto

    Windows Game Maker 2 Resolution and Aspect Ratio

    How best way to make the monitor adapt to the resolution of other monitors pay special attention to the different aspect ratio. It would need to be without loss of quality. It's hard to find a tutorial for the current version desktop game maker 2. It would have to be all the screens in the game...
  7. clee2005

     13:6 Aspect Ratio (iPhoneX) responsive design

    Hey gang, I'm hoping someone out there has a suggestion on how to better manage the black bars at the top and bottom (of a portrait game) for iPhoneX (and other 19.5:9 or 13:6 aspect ratio devices). What I've done to "patch" our existing games is to display something on the top and bottom of...
  8. M

    Sound Design for 16:9

    Hi, I have 2 questions. 1. Why use emitters with audio_play_sound_on() when you can use audio_play_sound_at() without having to create emitters and achieve the same result in a 2D game? 2. which ever one above is used , is there a way to create a formula that allows the sound drop off to be...
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    GameMaker Supporting Custom Resolution and Aspect Ratio

    Hello everyone, I am trying to make a multiplatform game, but it just occured to me that Android phones are no longer simply rotated desktop screens. Various resolutions and aspect ratio exist outside of the standard 16:9 desktop. Are there any tutorials that teach how to support all these...
    • DarthTenebris
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Programming
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    Sprite Distortion on GUI Layer

    Sometimes when I draw sprites to the GUI layer, the sprites get distorted. Like these two menu arrows here: If I draw the same sprite on the room level though, there is no distortion with the arrow sprite. As seen here: I also notice that my sprite font can get distorted when the view zooms...
  11. Mehdi

    Android Scaling For God's Sake!!!

    Hello fellow game makers, I have read through all articles and posts related to proper scaling for different devices so far. But nothing seems to work. I want to disable application surface (or at least disable its drawing) to gain some fps. Also I want to have letterboxing (black bars) around...
  12. O

    Question - Code So how to change aspect ratio or display size generally

    Hey all, This one's bugging me. I want to have an option for the player to change between 16/9 aspect ratio and 4/3... I've seen a guide suggesting using the command display_set_gui_size(w, h) but that didn't work at all... Here is the code I have that appears for a persistent object at the...
  13. JadeMonsuta

    GML Centering a room in a view larger than the room? [SOLVED]

    Yes I'm aware that it's not the best thing to have a view larger than a room, I've given my game a dynamic aspect ratio horizontally as means of better displaying the art created for it without distortion. It works properly so long as the room's width is equal to or greater than the width of...
  14. MeltingCat

    GameMaker help with pixel perfect scaling

    Hi! I've come across a problem in my game which I have not been able to solve after countless tries and research. I'm trying to scale my pixel art based game to fit multiple screen sizes, without seeing black bars and hopefully a display with the least amount of pixel deformations as possible...
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    Android Weird pieces of sprites repeated around screen

    hi My game is aimed for Android. I have checked "keep aspect ratio" to have a padding (black bars) around the screen to compensate for issues with different display sizes. It works pretty well on several devices with various sizes. However on Samsung galaxy a9, a strange problem happens. some...
  16. Evanski

    GameMaker Can I get some help with setting up a camera?

    Hi, so i've tried tutorials on making cameras and everyone talks about them different, sets them up different. Its just left me confused and disoriented. I would love it if I could make a camera that has the viewport centered on a target (ex.the player) and that viewport be the size of the game...
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    Legacy GM [SOLVED] Resolution Issues

    I've been working with a partner recently on a game and wanted to add resolution changing, but I think I made the mistake of making the game with the native resolution of 1920x1080. It seems like the most common way to change resolution is for the native resolution to be lower and to scale up to...
  18. M

    Black bars not showing correctly

    i made the game scale pixel perfect, but the black bars on the sides are moved: i followed this guide. The resolution is 640 x 480. I really dont know what im doing wrong obj_system create event: //Resize application_surface_draw_enable(false); window_set_fullscreen(true); global.MonitorW =...
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    GameMaker Resizing background with steady rest [HTML5]

    I want my game to look as if it's full screen on all major aspect ratios for mobile, so no black bars. I tried the fullscreen scaling tutorial here: https://www.yoyogames.com/blog/67/scaling-for-html5 But for some reason it isn't working at all? At least I'd like the background to be full...
    • Erikku901
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    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Programming
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    GameMaker Background won't fill the screen?

    Hi there i am new here, and i am currently having an issue with getting my background to fill in on GameMaker Studio 2. I made a display manager that takes care of all the aspect ratio/screen resolution adaptions. But for some reason my background just won't scale and i am making the game in...
    • BroskiGames
    • Thread
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Programming
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