tiles

I have a de-saturation shader that works on instances. I want to draw the same shader over the floor to cover the floor tiles. I only want the shader to cover the walls and the floor, so drawing on the application surface is out. I've tried using surfaces but no luck. Any ideas on how to go...

I was fixing new stage defaults for my game, a room which I make child rooms from, then make stages from there. For some reason it won't let me draw tiles in certain areas, seems to be affecting any tile outside the default room's room dimensions. I tried looking around online, but I can't find...

Tiles do not load in-game. I have set the tile layer to visible, I have cleared cache multiple times, I have restored default settings, I have tried this with 3 different files, I have reset the program, I have reinstalled Gamemaker. Nothing is working. Editor on top, game on bottom. The tiles...

Are sprites, tiles, background images, etc. only "drawn" by GMS2 when they are on screen and visible to the player? Or are there, in theory, performance efficiencies to be gained by, for example, manually telling GMS2 to draw only those tiles or portion of a background image surrounding/visible...

So, for example, how can i do to desactive the tile layer when i press enter and then reactive it when press enter again?

For the first time ever I've tried to make an actual connecting tileset... But since this is my first time, I'm legit stumped on if I'm missing any other tiles to make it work 100% That is what I've made so far, anything I'm missing here? or is this legit all I need to make it work? I might...

Im working on a turn-based rpg and im planning on doing a lighting system but still haven't figured out how I'm going to do that. Is there anyway to do lighting from tiles? I could make objects and do the lighting from that but it would make stuff like cliffs a little complicated?

So I'm trying to make a map that loops horizontally, but not vertically; this was easy enough. My code goes through and reads each cell of a ds grid and draws a different colour pixel on the screen depending on what value it holds. I have a "zoom" variable that is somewhere between 1 and 0, then...

Hopefully I can articulate what I'm trying to accomplish. I have a projectile that when it hits a wall (in this case I'm using tiles), it creates a vine object at that position (snapping it to the 8x8 grid that the game uses). I then want that vine object to expand for a couple more grid spaces...

a tileset layer in my room is not showing, its visible, nothing is above it, its just not there. but in game it is visible. what culd the problem be?

I am currently creating void (areas the player can fall into) collisions for my top down game. The void is defined with tiles and a specific tile layer and I want to check to see if the players entire collision mask is inside of the void tiles similar to the rectangle_in_rectangle() function...

I'm having a hard time running a small tile collision system. The lateral (horizontal) collisions are perfect, the negative vertical collision too, but I cannot make the positive vertical collision work. I don't know if it has any influence, but the game has infinite scroll (the screen does not...

When creating an tileset and opening the animated tiles option, why does it only let me choose either 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256 frames? What if I want to create a tile with 6 frames? Why can't I just type in the number of frames, it doesn't let you, is there any way around this please?

Is there a way to create objects into a room that are stored inside of a ds_grid? Instance_create_layer or depth doesn't like when I try and place a something other than a direct object and gives me an error. I can draw my ds_grid when I have sprites stored in the draw event, but I imagine when...

Hello everyone. Been having a hard time finding tutorials on creating textures for a game, even the tutorials and practice work I'm doing doesn't really go into it. I'm going for something with a Paper Mario look for it. A combination of 2d and 3d objects with a cartoon type of texture on it...

Tile Based Moving Platform Engine This tile based platform engine uses efficient tiles for instance collisions, as well as incorporating those efficiencies into horizontal and vertical tile layer moving platforms. Some of the features of the engine : Tile Based Collisions : Tiles offer the...

I could use some help with the Autotiles Helper asset by @Homunculus marketplace asset. I am finding difficulty implementing it in my own project. What I can't figure out is how to make it assign sprites to the instances already in the room, though it seemed simple enough at first. I tried...

how do you apply depth to tiles so that player can go behind them when his bottom is above theyr bottom? and infront when his bottom is below theyr bottom. basicly adding the -y depth thing, or similar. only way i see is making diffrence betwean layer`s depths the same as the grid and making as...

Hi all, Context: Getting back into a game maker project after over a year and was playing around with some code and functionality I have posted below (not sure what happened to my old forum account but had to register again even though I have on here for at least 5 years now?). The code...

First of all, it is important to notice that the game I develop is made to be look like isometric. But it is done using tilesets and tutorial of Shaun Spalding and some fundamental functions of isometricity coordinates translation. So the actual problem is until now I have been using Shaun's...