scaling

I know that scaling graphics up in a game should always be done by multiplying it with an integer number such as 2 and not a number such as 1.43 or 2.5 to keep the quality. But now I wonder, how does this work when scaling graphics DOWN by an integer? I have a 1920x1080 room background that I...

Hi all. So I was following Pixelated Pope's YT videos regarding scaling for devices. I am trying to apply scaling in Android devices. I followed the code in pixelated pope's video but did some changes since some functions are already obsolete in Game Maker Studio 2.3. Here is the scaling...

Hi Everyone! Apologies if this is a stupidly obvious question, it's been a while since I have worked with views, so I could be missing something! I'm currently working on a 3D game to submit to the LoRez game jam, and was hoping to be able to reduce the view size to 64x64 in order to fit...

Hi all, I've been following the tech blog article on HTML5 scaling, and to my delight, it has worked great for my HTML5 game. However, it only seems to work on desktop browsers. When I try to test the game on my iPhone 7 iOS (12?) Safari or my partner's Samsung S9 with Chrome, the game...

Heya. Following Issue: Similar to Nuclear Throne I'd like to allow the player to freely resize the window to their liking while keeping the area within the window the same - this means we get Black Bars. These are fine, what however isn't fine is the game's sprites getting all crusty...

Before I get to reinventing the wheel I want to be sure that there is not an automatic scaling system for users resizing game or browser windows. The games that I'm currently working on should have their elements stay in the same relative position and all remain visible as the window's size is...

So I wanted to test my android game in different resolutions and see how my system for scaling works, however when I was testing I saw that changing the size of the emulation window doesn't change "display_get_...", while doing this in another new proyect it works(It changes the display size). I...

So I created this script to scale a game with 16:9 ratio. Basically it scales to edge for width then puts it to a 16:9 ratio via a surface scale. Works, I just thought I'd share for anyone interested and see if there's any additions or alterations anyone may have to suggest.

Hello fellow game makers, I have read through all articles and posts related to proper scaling for different devices so far. But nothing seems to work. I want to disable application surface (or at least disable its drawing) to gain some fps. Also I want to have letterboxing (black bars) around...

I am working on a concept where I want to randomly place trees based on room width and height. So what I am trying to do is decrease the scale of the trees that are placed higher up to give the scene more depth. Bascially I am wanting to scale the trees based on their y position, towards the...

Hello ! I am new to Game Maker. I'm using GMS2 , and one of the problems I realized is that, by zooming the room editor out, all of the windows get smaller too. This causes a big quality loss and makes a lot of text unreadable. I posted two images : Normal zoom ( Normal.png ) and zoomed out (...

Hi there! I have two monitors. Monitor #1 is ultrawide (2560x1080), whereas monitor #2 is a regular 1920x1080. If I try to maximize my game on monitor #1, everything works as expected. However, if I move the game window to monitor #2 and maximize it (window_set_fullscreen(true)), the game...

Hello Game Makers! I've been reading a lot and found a few methods and tutorials on how to support multiple resolutions in GameMaker. Sadly most of them are aimed to GMS1. With the new cameras in GMS2 most of the stuff is outdated and I wonder how do you guys give support to 720p for a pixel...

Hello everyone, I'm so sick of this problem and 'Ive been trying to solve it for such a long time, that I've decided to look for help somewhere else. I'm talking about cameras. In all of my games I have one big problem with cameras. And that is smooth camera movement to player. I have this...

Hi! I've come across a problem in my game which I have not been able to solve after countless tries and research. I'm trying to scale my pixel art based game to fit multiple screen sizes, without seeing black bars and hopefully a display with the least amount of pixel deformations as possible...

Hello, i'm trying to scale the view port to be the biggest possible without changing camera size and while keeping the aspect ratio. And then bring the view port to the top of the screen, so i have enough room on the bottom of the screen to add buttons, which i know i can achieve by using...

Hey there! I am exporting an application with GMS2 to Android, I have set the room size to be 720x1280 which is the Android size I'm using. I have set up my android settings with this guide: https://help.yoyogames.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001368727-Setting-Up-For-Android Sadly, Everytime I...

I'm coding a 3D FPS-type game in a popular game engine called GameMaker:Studio 1.99.44. I'm trying to achieve a low-res "pixelated" effect, for example like this: I've tried experimenting with views, thus making their resolution smaller and afterwards scaling up the game window in code in...

Hey, I'm a total beginner when it comes to GM2, recently started working on a little visual novel game with the team, still learning the program slowly.. The game I'm making is gonna have a high res pixel-art kind of style, I had a hard time understanding how I should upscale everything, it...

So above is a picture of a sprite that contains a very small font. My game is at 1920x1080 resolution and my monitor matches that as well. My problem is that when I draw this font to the screen (using the draw gui event), the font only appears clearly depending on where my mouse coords are (I am...