sprite animation

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    Adaptive Rotation(Animation)?

    Hey, I am new to the software, using gm2, and I am working on a "press space dodging game" all the mechanics are pressing space. My question is, when I press space and it goes right, I want it to either play a sprite animation or rotate a static one to the right side, BUT if the animation or...
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    GML Visual Set Sprite animation on DnD

    Hello, I am trying to switch animation of my player using the DnD. So I use the "Set Sprite" action with "Frame" set to 0 and Relative. It is switching through my idle and walk animation, except that it loops only through the number of frames of my default animation. So my object use my...
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    Procesuraly add 3d effect.

    Hello internet, This might be very confusing, but here's my problem: I made a puzzle game where you have maze 'pieces' with a 3x3 layout with one or more entrences/exits. The premise of the game is that everytime the mplayer walks into one of these it turns 90° before the player can leave...
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    GML sprite stuck moving opposite directiong after moving left.

    Hi, beginner coder here. I was following a platformer tutorial and everything was so far so good until it came to changing the sprite facing direction. My character has an asymmetrical design so using the image_xscale isn't really possible for me. The character can move to the right direction...
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    GameMaker Tricky animation end question

    Hi all. Long-time listener, first-time caller. For real. I'm very new to this, so please keep that in mind. =P I'm trying to figure out how in the hell to manipulate how an animation plays, and I'll try to describe this as best I can. - My player object currently only has two sprites: idle &...
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    Job Offer - Artist 2D Sprites and backgrounds needed for political satire game

    I need a sprite artist to create a number of animated characters for a 2d shoot-em-up style game. The characters would be political satire cartoon drawings of the current administration + other topical notable figures. Think - "Dodge-ball with Trump & Friends" Anyone up for the challenge...
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    Steam I need help with sprite animation.

    I have a vary complex running animation, in the sprite editor its set to loop, but in the game its set to ping-pong. how to I set it to loop in the game? ps. I'm new to GameMaker and I'm using DND.
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    GameMaker Animation Single Loop

    I'm currently experimenting with GMS2 and I'm essentially doing that with the SNES Link to the Past sprites. I have movement and I can make Link swing his sword. The main problem is that I can't find a way that I understand that makes it so that his sword swing animation happens only once and...
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    Question - IDE Pyxel edit imported animation problem

    Hi. I havn't found a solution to this in game maker or online so I post the question here. I use pyxel edit for making my sprites and animation. In pyxeledit you can input the speed of individual frames in an animation to make it look more smooth or natural. However, exporting this to...
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    (Drag & Drop) How do i change sprites

    I'm asking this here because I can't find tutorials anywhere for drag and drop. So I'm trying to make a fighting animation, and a walking animation, but I can't figure out how to do that with drag and drop. Can you help me?
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    Loop animation sequence

    I have two animations: idle animation attacking animation I need following order or animations idle for 3 seconds attack for 1 second idle for 3 seconds attack for 1 second ********** loop steps 1 and 2 (until the sprite will be killed by player, or player die) At the moment, I'm looping...
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    Current object position (x, y)

    I have to sprites: Warrior_Idle (width/height - 65/52) Warrior_Attack (width/height - 110/60) So when I use sprite_index to replace "idle animation" with "attack_animation", the animation jumps to the right. Before applying new animation, I need to adjust postion, e.g. set x -=42, y -=2. How...
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    How to change the size of sprites

    I am not very experienced with gms 2 and I am still a beginner. Lately I have made a design on paper and imported it in gms 2 so I could animate my design. It was a normal picture made with my phone, but it had a width of 4032 and a height of 3024. Know my sprite is way to big and I don't...
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    Question - IDE Texture Pages and Subimages

    According to the manual, GMS2 will not split up a large sprite resource across multiple texture pages. Which makes sense, for single images. It's the word "resource" that has an unaddressed ambiguity: If all of the combined subimages of one sprite resource do not fit on a single texture page...
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    Platformer: Weapon Mask Follows Player; The Sprite Does Not

    I am working on a Multiplayer platform game that utilizes various choices of weapons and characters. When the player attacks, the weapon mask creates itself and follows the players movement. However, when I draw the sprite of the actual weapon it stays in the same spot from when the action was...
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    How do I change sprite animation for running and when I'm idle?

    Hi, I'm fairly new to game maker and gml itself been learning for about 4 days and so I'm working on a side scroller ( like mario or sonic) and I looked through the manual and things the only thing I can gather from it is something about sprite_index I'm not sure if that's what I use and it'll...
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    GameMaker Image Editor and Real Time Animation

    GM Version: GMS2 Target Platform: ALL Download: N/A Links: N/A Summary: Using the image editor to make and modify sprites and animations for your video game. I also cover the new features in the image editor including how to animate in real time as well as using layers in GameMaker. Tutorial:
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    enemy won't change sprite based on direction

    I'm using the enum and motion planning function for the first time in an attempt to create AI for a 2D Action RPG. I'm wondering why my enemy's sprite won't change at all when it changes direction. Also, based on what I have, do you think I am on the right track for making sufficient AI. Create...
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    GameMaker Sprite reflection on turn

    Evening all, I seem to have an odd error I can't place. Basically, when the enemy walks to the right it looks fine but when walking to the left the sprite is mirrored, playing facing both left and right at the same time. The facing and (variable) xScale updates as intended, the same way as the...
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    GML Sprite animation canceling out other animations(SOLVED)

    So, just have a look at my code: if(hsp != 0 && vsp = 0) { sprite_index = spr_player_running; image_speed = 0.3; } else { sprite_index = spr_player; } if (vsp < 0 && !place_meeting(x,y,par_solids)) { sprite_index = spr_jump; } else { sprite_index = spr_falling; } That is...
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