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    Legacy GM Background Help

    The thing is that I want to hide the background (bck_main_screen) and have the drawn background instead!!!:)And then the ability to add the background(bck_main_screen) back into the game later all in the same room... Is this possible??? Thank you!! a quick reply if possible please this is due...
    • Aidan K-S
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    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM Deleting Backgrounds???

    Hello Everyone I need help with my backgrounds The problem is that I want to delete my background when new_game == true! /// Drawing Buttons // If we are on home screen, create the main menu buttons if (global.main_menu == true) { //Creating the buttons instance_create(320,50...
    • Aidan K-S
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Programming
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    Portfolio - Art Background artist

    Hi, My name's Sergii! I'm a background artist for Visual Novel and Anime Some of my work: You can visit my portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/artist/voloshenko My email: [email protected] Waiting for you to cooperation!!!
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    Background and Movement like "Legend of Mana"

    If anyone don't know which game is Legend of Mana: I didn't know if i should ask this here or in Programming, i'll correct if anyone can tell me where i should put this I was trying to create a simply game using the same movement and sense of depth as this one, i wanted the effect even if...
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    Legacy GM [IMPOSSIBLE] Audio Spectrum background (After effect)

    I have an After Effects Audio Spectrum, and I'd like to use it as the background of the game. It's possible? If so, how do I do it? Can you help me step by step?
    • Guilherme Hernandez
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    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM GUI Background

    I'm using the GUI event so that I can draw HUDs etc at a greater resolution than the game. My actual game is 384x216. What I'm trying to do is use: draw_background_stretched(bg_1,0,0,display_get_gui_width(),background_get_height(bg_1)) This is in order to set a background at a higher...
    • trentallain
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    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Programming
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     Background Loss of Quality?

    For some reason my background layer seems to have a loss of quality when it is opened in run mode or as an executable? I imported a file in different formats to check if it was the file upload extension, but also tested it by drawing on top in game maker 2 and that was also blurry and had it...
    • ohbadman
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    • Forum: Tech Support
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    Android Images look super weird

    I am making a game(more of an ebook really) and It works fine on windows but it gets weird on android. The first page looks normal it has a background and a sprite to turn the page(all backgrounds are jpegs and all sprites are png) the second page has no background just a white color and 5...
    • Ansual
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    • Forum: Programming
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    Parallax background issue

    Hello everyone, I made some very simple backgrounds for a room. This is the code I am using in the step event of the player: background_x[6] = view_xview[0]*0.8 background_x[7] = view_xview[0]*0.6 It is very simple. Now there is a problem, here is a video showing the issue: As you can...
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    Problem with drawing gifs

    I use an object to draw an animated gif as background for mainn menu. It is fully animated, looks nice and so. But when animation finnishes (speed 30, 73 images, like 2 seconds) it glitches for one second, it covers the play button and stops being stretched and it repeats itself and then the...
    • Demrottens
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    • Forum: Programming
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    I need help with a really complicated problem!

    So in my room, I need a tiled background that can move to the right. BUT, it also needs to be cut off at certain points. So it would move constantly, but at a certain coordinate the image would be cut off. It's a very complicated request. The only possible way I can think to do this is...
    • PupofAwesome!
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    • Forum: Programming
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    GameMaker Parallax Scrolling Backgrounds

    Hi guys. Sorry for the noob question, I have searched google and these forums up and down and can't seem to figure out how to get parallax scrolling backgrounds in GMS2. That being, a "further" background layer (sky, mountains, what have you) moving slower than "closer" background layers...
    • HA2ARD_R380RN
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    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Programming
  13. NathanAuckett

    Texure Page Size vs Count

    Hi all. We are trying to optimize our game. We use allot of large graphical assets and because of this we have allot of texture swaps. Reading this post: http://www.yoyogames.com/blog/23 , this is not ideal. So we made efforts to reduce our swap count. By using the largest texture page size...
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    HTML5 Background not respecting animation speed - HTML5

    So I have this animated sprite that serves as my background. The animation speed is set in the background properties to 15 frames per seconds. This works when I use the TEST-environment. In HTML5-however, it seams to play 1 frame, each gameframe - which is of course way too fast. Am I doing...
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    GML stop hspeed of background

    Hi how can I stop the horizontal speed of a specific background in the room? On the official Website they use this code: background_hspeed[0] but this one seem not to be usable anymore in the latest version. I have Backgrounds_1 in the room with a hspeed of -2 and want to stop this on a...
    • Siracher
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    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Programming
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    Background Images Versus Tile Sets

    Hey Everyone, I was wondering if it makes much of a difference on game file size and processing power when it comes to constructing all your game rooms. One scenario is that all game rooms have a large pixel background image made in Photoshop for example. The other scenario is if you use lets...
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    Stupid Background Question

    I may be posting dumb questions a lot. How does one throw up a background in a room with the add_background function? I have tried the following ways: background_index[0] = background_add(working_directory+"\filename.png",0,0,1); ----- BG =...
    • NewGuyAgain
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    • Forum: Programming
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    Portfolio - Audio ♫ Full-time freelance game composer available - modern and retro styles - free demos for indies! ♫

    Hello! I'm Geoff Moore, a UK-based game composer who creates music for developers all over the world. I work on a contract basis, meaning you can hire me for a single track, a whole game, a kickstarter demo... whatever you need! I have 5 years of game music industry experience and a BA in Music...
    • Geoff Moore
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    • Replies: 31
    • Forum: Collaboration
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    Legacy GM Sprite from surface with alpha values

    I have been scratching my head over this little thing. Can someone help me out with this? What I want to do Draw an image with alpha values on a surface, a background part for example. Create a sprite from the surface with the correct background part's alpha values. Use that sprite for specific...
  20. Carloskhard

    Help making big maps in Game Maker

    Right now I'm making a map for my game and I want to make it big.My problem is that in Game Maker (1.4): -I cannot move set of tiles or name the layers. -I cannot move the whole map (if I want to build up for example) So whenever I have to move multiple tyles or the whole map I get stuck.How...
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