depth

Does anyone know if there is a difference in performance for using a high amount of depth layers vs a low amount. Say I have 3 layers, a foreground, middleground and background. I can set these layers to depth value: -10 0 10 or I can set them to: -1 0 1 Is there any difference in these...

Hi there, long time user and lurker of GM. I'm currently having a problem with instance creation, none of the instance functions seem to draw to screen despite being in the draw method. Here is my simple test code, which does not draw: create_instance_depth(room_width, room_height, 10000...

Hello! I want to click on the instance that is on top of the others, but make the loop only on a specific layer. The function I have works the way it should: The above function is an adaptation of this video. However, if I check objects from another layer, this happens: (The left...

I recently redid my depth "system" which was just depth = -y, and followed Friendly Cosmonauts tutorial on it (). It works great; however, I have a gore system that uses a surface which gives blood a splatter effect. Unfortunately, this surface is being drawn over everything: How do I...

hi I'm working on a pen&paper helper thingy that creates objects upon pressing a button (like map object;walls etc.). It's crucial that the last created object is overlapping all previously created objects and I dont know how to get that working. Sorting the depth by y-value makes no sense, I...

I am completely baffled at the moment. I have two objects (camera, player), both running the following in the step event when I press a key. Each is on it's own instance layer with a fixed depth (0 or 100) show_message(string(name)) show_message(string(depth)) Regardless of what order I put...

how do you apply depth to tiles so that player can go behind them when his bottom is above theyr bottom? and infront when his bottom is below theyr bottom. basicly adding the -y depth thing, or similar. only way i see is making diffrence betwean layer`s depths the same as the grid and making as...

This here is supposed to be a wheat field (used sprites are placeholders). They're all sprites being drawn by one object, the positions being stored in an array. While assigning the positions it checks whether they're within a certain radius to get the circular shape. This means the sprite...

Hello, I am currently trying to make my player object be able to jump and be able to stay on platforms. I am not using physics btw. Anyway, I found a video that explains this concept but I am struggling to implement this on my project because my depth and collision system is different. This is...

TLDR version: I find no performance issues between "depth = -y" and other "improved" algorithms and I would like some opinions. Thanks! =] Well, I made some performance analysis on 2 ways on making a Fake 3D effect. Both are well contained in specific objects that handles it all. You feed...

Hello guys, I'm new to GameMaker Studio and I'm still learning DnD. I'm trying to make a simple depth system that when I move behind a tree, the tree will be on top of the player and also change its alpha and opposite. But there's a problem, I think it has something to do with the box I circled...

Hi, I have a long standing project I recently moved from GMS 1.4 to GMS 2, and although the transition has been very clean, (props to the GMS 2 dev team on that one,) I came across what I’m thinking is a bug in GMS 2. My game is a top down game, where I am shifting the depth of the instances in...

I hope this is the right forum for this. I have some familiarity with GMS1 from my youth so I bought GMS2. With my main aspirations being the creation of a psudo3D game which utilized the depth feature in the Drag&Drop. I have seen some murmurings of a way to use a depth function within the...

Hi! I've been having a problem in GMS2. In my game I have a trigger which the player touches in order to leave to the next room. This room also has a trigger which allows the player to travel back to the previous room. There is currently no problems when walking through room to room, it looks...

Hello everybody. I have trouble updating depth of my object in isometric game: when the object takes the neccesary tile the depth works right but while moving the depth is always changing and the cube is dissapearing every step, "hiding" behind the house object. Here is the code of my step...

I have two objects that are in a room together. These objects are persistent and the room is an initialization room. in the initialization room: object1 is depth of 0; object2 is depth of 100; on room change, object1 changes it's depth. in room 1: object1 has a depth of 200 object2 has a...

I'm creating a solitaire game that has a deck of cards that when clicked deals out the top three cards from the deck. I want it so that the cards pile on top of each other so that the first card dealt is at the bottom of the pile and so on. I have managed to get this to work however when the...

I've come across a huge problem, basically, I can either create loads and loads of individual sprites and corresponding objects to then place in my room which is really not a good way, or I could use tiles. I have a tileset of grass and trees where the trees are 3x2 and made using the brush...

Isometric Engine Cool features so far : - Any number of floors / fevels - Ramps / Z-height - Pre-calculated depth sorting that handle any block dimensions. (Used a method described here : Isometric depth sorting) I did try a bunch of methods. I will talk about them in details when I next...

I have an isometric/top-down game with objects that I want the player to walk in front of and behind. When they walk in front of it, the player is visible and obscures the object behind it partially. When they walk behind it, then the object in front of it obscures the player from the camera...