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    Legacy GM Flamethrower [Solved]

    Hello, I'm trying to make my player shoot two streams of flame in the direction that the object is facing. My player sprite rotates with the mouse, but it has a fixed rotation speed. I am able to shoot flames from the right place and in the direction the mouse is pointing, but when my object...
    • Purin
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    • Forum: Programming
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    Racing Game Tire Treads

    Hello all! Got another question. So in my racing game, I have it so that every second the vehicles leave behind tire tread objects, to show where they've been driving, which disappear after a second or so to prevent a drop in framerate. They work nearly perfectly! The problem though, is that...
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    Windows Error related to creating a new instance of an object

    I am trying to simply create an instance of an object but it won't let me. I am not a noob, and this never used to happen. Did it update? ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action...
    • gusg21
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    [SOLVED] instance create w obj name in a variable?

    I have data in an ini file and it is read in to a variable. An "instance_create" is then called where the variable is in the place of the objects name. I am getting an "illegal type" error so I presume one can not do it this way. Is that the correct conclusion? The below code is in a script...
    • Eisot
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    • Forum: Programming
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    Legacy GM [SOLVED] Making several instances appear by clicking the same button

    Hello everbody, total newbie here, so please go easy on me ;-) I'm trying to make a round of a quiz game in which every click on the button "Next clue" (an instance of obj_btn) gives you another clue (instance of obj_clue). I've tried setting it up so that a click on the button will add 1 to...
    • Lori
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    having trouble with instances

    Hello, i'm new to this, i picked up GameMaker from previous Humble bundle and im fiddling around with it, so after a few projects just to practice how the basics work i decided to do something a bit more real, but am having issues with a specific thing, so here it goes.. 1st screen there's 3...
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    changing object variables when a lot of object share the same name

    Hey everyone, these are random numbers and story because my real situation has long codes ect... I've object_a, object_c, object_d object_b 1)object_a, objectc, object are put in the room 2)inside object_ a, object_c & object_d creation code I write: instance_create(0,0,obj_b); 3) object_a...
    • RealsLife
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    Enemy spawner

    Hello, I'm a new user thanks to the humble bundle, so far my experience with game making has only been using rpg maker (without coding). So while I've made a couple of games I would still consider myself a complete noob. I used the search function but I couldn't find what I was looking for...
    • Nirwanda
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    • Forum: Programming
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