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  1. Conbeef

    help with collision_rectangle with rotate rectangle

    hello, is there a way to check if a rotated rectangle has collided with a object(precise collision)? collision_rectangle_rotated( x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, x4, y4, obj, prec, notme ); //something like this
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    Search string for several substrings

    How can I search a string for several substrings? Ideally, it would search the main string for all substrings simultaneously, and return thhe results as a string of numbers, like this: Main string: Fruit = "apple berry berry orange berry cherry banana apple pineapple grape peach melon...
    • ag07
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    • Forum: Programming
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    Free [Android & IOS] Color Glide, an original, colorful, and unique puzzle adventure!

    Hello everyone, Yesterday we released Color Glide, a fresh type of puzzle game that involves mixing blocks & solving all of the over 50 levels. We have a new level every day, so there's always something new to do! Download: Official Trailer I've been working with Game Maker for...
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    Chromakey?

    is it possible to Chromakey in Gamemaker, and turn all of a specific color the background? or another straight texture???
    • Mirofox
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    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Programming
  5. C

    How do I spawn an objects in a certain area?

    So I want to spawn objects in the area where the grey box is, my game size is 640x480. Here is my spawner object code: Create Event: execute code: // Wait 2 seconds and than trigger the alarm alarm [1] = 60; // Randomize the spawn randomize(); Alarm Event for alarm 1: execute code: //...
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    Legacy GM [solved]Draw_sprite starting subimg?

    Hello guys, right now, I"m in a little trouble. Okay, so I have this controller object that draws an effect if state == something. The drawing and mechanics work as smoothly as can be, but sometimes the objects draws the effect, but the starting sub image isn't 0. I have some alarms to stop the...
    • Tonydaderp
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM Destory only one instance of many

    So I am making this little game, where you there is 5 objects of the same and when you press a letter it destroys it. My problem is when I like the letter that is pressed it destroys every other object. I have tries the with (obj_Enemy) { instance_destroy(); } But that isn't work nor...
    • Cmi
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    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Programming
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    Strange Error

    Alright so I am going through the Application Surface Scaling tutorial, and despite me following it almost exactly (slight modifications but they should make no difference), I am not getting what it says I should be getting. The goal is to get white rectangles drawn over the "letterboxes" on...
    • Gooroo7
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Programming
  9. Pixelated_Pope

    Graphics Animated Tiles

    GM Version: Latest version of GM:S Target Platform: ALL (Tested on windows, but should work on all) Download: Project File with Animation System Scripts Links: N/A Summary: A very efficient way to handle animating tiles in Game Maker Studio. Let me know if you have any questions! IMPORTANT...
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    Legacy GM Trying to make a Rhythm game

    So I'm trying to make a rhythm game, and for this I need my obstacle objects(Whose only code is y-=4) to spawn at particular times in the song. I have a devoted object that keeps track of when it needs to create these obstacles. Right now its code is as follows: Create: ///Play music //set...
    • Quelandoris
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    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM [SOLVED]Somebody please please help me!! My head is being done in!

    Hello all So I am STILL trying to get around saving game! :( It seems everything is only suited for Final Fantasy or zelda-inspired games and hence no tutorials work for me. I'm losing hair, sleep and hygeine over this! Basically, my game runs more like phoneix wright: All I want is to...
    • Yacob
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    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM What's wrong with what I am doing? please help :)

    Hello all! I recently purchased KeeVee's Save encryption scripts but cannot figure it out. I purchased it cause I needed a proper save game, which saves my variables, etc. However, I cannot seem to get it to work. Here are some screenshots: Saving encrypted string: Loading encrypted...
    • Yacob
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    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Programming
  13. M

    Legacy GM Need Help With Mega's Stepping

    Hello Game Makers, I'm having trouble adding an action to Mega Man where before walks and the keys are pressed, he takes a one pixel step. I already have a few variables in create: canwalk = false; stepping = false; canstep = true; steptimer = 0; stepmax = 3; stepspeed = 1; If anyone needs...
    • MegaGamer99
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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM Help with Aruba Cloud Server

    Hi everybody! i'm Daniel and i'm trying to develop a HTML5 game,recently i have some problems hosting the game so i asked for some help to a programmer from this forum,the problem is that he don't know how to execute files in Aruba Cloud,if someone has experience with this host and knows how to...
    • daniel
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM (SOLVED) Help with a point and click sidescroller

    Hello! I'm not very fluent with GM:S at the moment but I'm eager to learn. I have used other, more simple, game engines but I want the skills that come from knowing how to code things. As such, I tried following some tutorials on how to do both Point and click moement (in all directions) and...
    • KuluGary
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Programming
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    [SOLVED] How to make the screen shake outside of the room border?

    So I created a simple screen shake object that would create itself, make the screen shake, and then destroy itself after the alarm goes off. I'm using a camera object that will follow my player around BTW! In the shake object Step event: obj_camera.x += random_range (-3,3); obj_camera.y +=...
    • JollyLemon
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    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM Get JSON string from http_get

    Hi there, I'm looking into a custom update system and would love to be able to use the http_get function to get the information from my website but im not sure what i would need to do for that to work, so for example i would like to return a JSON string containing 1 double for the version number...
    • Big_Macca_101
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Programming
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    draw_sprite_ext not working

    I'm trying to use draw_sprite_ext to draw a sprite to a surface, but it doesn't seem to draw the sprite if the xscale or yscale is negative. Any ideas?
    • sir_derp
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    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM Platformer Help!

    Hello Game Makers, I'm planning on making a Game Boy Mega Man Game, but I'm having trouble on where to start with the coding. I've started with a solid block, a mega man idle sprite, and a room. Any Ideas how I can get the collision of solid, stepping, walking and jumping? Help will be...
    • MegaGamer99
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    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Programming
  20. S

    debugging a surface

    How do I actually look at a surface in the debugger? Nothing is showing up in the Surface/texture window. I should point out I have a breakpoint set up between the surface being created and the surface being freed up, so it should still be in memory.
    • sir_derp
    • Thread
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Programming
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