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    Collision Object/Collision mask

    Helloo! I am using Game maker Drag & Drop and I have a problem with my collisions masks ( I guess?).. But first the problem: I have a collision object with a normal collsion set up, so my player should be able to walk on it and against it, but not through it. But since I scaled the collision...
  2. G

    Custom Cursor in Drag and Drop

    Hey, I'm developing a sort of five nights at freddy's style game for my girlfriends birthday coming up, and one of the things i wanted to include is a custom mouse cursor while within the game. However, i don't have any coding experience except for other types of games i've made in game maker...
  3. Liam Earles

    Legacy GM Ideas for Wall Jump mechanic

    So, I've been working on a game where I did a wall jump with 2 separate objects, and from what I learned, switching objects like that is bad practice, and cause the game to do frequent crash bugs. So I tried to do one object and I followed Shaun Spaulding's tutorial, but it didn't work. So I...
  4. Liam Earles

    Legacy GM Crouching not working

    So, I've been making this game where I would like the player to crouch. My problem is, when I made a separate object for the crouch character, it seems like even though I hold down it would revert back to the idle position of the character. If I did something like, "press down to change to the...
  5. L

    Asteroids Random Sprites

    Hello, NooB needs some advice. Doing the Asteroids tutorial Drag and Drop mode. I am not at home so can't post the code, but maybe you can help anyway? As per the tutorial I use Random function to assign three different sprite sizes to Obj_Asteroid. The Sprite options are: 1. Spr_Asteroid_Sm...
  6. L

    Drag and Drop or GML for teaching 10-14 year olds

    I know this is a weird question but if I'm teaching a group of 5-8 students game maker should I use drag and drop or GML. I want to teach GML for a few reasons. I believe kids are not as stupid as many think and I believe they can understand what "x = x + 5". Many people (most who don't even...
  7. L

    GML Visual How do I make One Way Platforms Using Drag & Drop?

    I have not found a single tutorial that shows how to do one-way platforms using the drag & drop method. Could someone please help? I am using GameMaker Studio 2
  8. D

    GML Visual Destroying an Instance when Collision Stops Happening

    Hello, I'm very new to GameMaker DnD and programming in general. I'm creating an object that spawns an instance of a different object above it, but I would like the instance it creates to destroy itself once the player walks away. How would I go about this? I can only get the instance to create...
  9. flyinian

    (Solved)Is D&D good practice

    I am wondering if D&D is good practice for seeing how code is formed. I havent used D&D so, im not familiar with it but, i remember a "show code" option and I thought that it might be good practice for code visualization. You create a small project with D&D and then you read through the code...
  10. P

    Animating frames are overlapping

    Hey, I'm pretty new to GameMaker and I'm having a bit of a problem. I'm making a SHMUP set in the ocean and I want to create a wave that trails behind the player when they move to the bottom of the screen. I was able to do this with an animated sprite, but each sprite frame stays on the screen...
  11. R

    Sprite mirroring glitching

    Hi, I'm new to these forums, I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place. But I'm needing help, I'm trying to do a game jam but this is happening in my game: I don't know how to fix it and thought asking on the forums would help. This is my first time making a game.
  12. Evanski

    Discussion DnD vs GML

    Welcome to my ultimate thread about Drag and Drop and Game Maker Language. Basically I'd like to have people talk about there thoughts on whats better to use and why. In my personal opinion I think GML is easier to understand when you get the gest of it, though DnD has the benefit of being more...
  13. Liam Earles

    Legacy GM Using Checkpoints and lives at the same time

    So I've been following Shaun's tutorial video on how to add checkpoints in the game and I did okay with it. But however, I'm having trouble with using checkpoints and lives at the same time. No matter what I do, the player would respawn (sometimes) to the checkpoint, and I would not be able to...
  14. Liam Earles

    Legacy GM Lives with Checkpoint

    So I'm making a game that will have checkpoints and lives as well as a health bar and a score mechanic. Here's what the code looks like for each event. Game Start: global.checkpointX = 0; global.checkpointY = 0; lives = 3; // you should probably have 3 as a variable just in case you want to do...
  15. T

    Can't Switch Rooms (on click) with Drag N'Drop

    Hi, I'm super new to programming and am just making a small game for my school's science fair, so naturally I decided to do it with Drag-n-drop mode. I've created room 0 as the main menu with the animated logo and stuff; created an object that would take the player to the next room, but it...
  16. D

    Question - GML Visual Custom Drag & Drop Functions with named Parameters possible?

    Hi, I currently try to create an easy to use RPG Framework for GMS2. For that I would like to make some scripts that I would be compatible with the Drag & Drop System so that beginners could also use it even if I am a programmer and would not use it myself... I noticed that calling GML/DND...
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    Windows Cant figure out GOTO/NEXT transitions (GML)

    Recently I've been working on a top down game and ive moved into working on screen transitions for my main way of moving between areas. I have figured a few parts out with the help of some YouTube videos and understand decent amounts of coding and have been using an enum with constants of an...
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    GML Visual Setting a timer / countdown?

    Hey there! I need to create a timer / countdown in two different rooms / levels, so that your time to finish the maze is limited. If the time is up I want the player to respawn at the beginning... Please help me achieving this with Drag and Drop, I reaaally need your help
  19. Liam Earles

    Variable not set before reading it

    So I was working on a project and while testing, I got a crash bug with an error message saying this: ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ FATAL ERROR in action number 14 of Step Event0 for...
  20. C

    is it possible to draw variables on objects with codes?

    hi, im working on a game that involves drawing hundreds of variables on objects. each object has its own unique variable ( a counter) attached to it. currently im using drag n drop and have done 50 this way. the position for the count is -5, -5. obviously this is a very long procss and will...
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