tiles

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...

I've come across a huge problem, basically, I can either create loads and loads of individual sprites and corresponding objects to then place in my room which is really not a good way, or I could use tiles. I have a tileset of grass and trees where the trees are 3x2 and made using the brush...

PREVIEW: I'm implementing a custom tile system into my project, because I'd like more flexibility than what the current system allows. I've already added the system, and it works fine, but I believe it to be very inefficient. Below I'll detail some of my goals and then how my system works. It...

Hi all, I'm working on a topdown racing game, my idea is to draw different terrains surfaces and tracks using tile layers. one tile layer for terrain (grass, dirt, sand ecc...), one tile layer for the track (straight, curve ecc...) and one instance layer for objects (houses, fences ecc...)...

Hi I'm new to GM and would like to clarify if I'm on the right path in how I'm considering creating my game. It's a top down racing game that will be on a very large room/map. Before I design and draw the room I would like to make sure it'll work. Basically there will be sections of road that...

So, suppose you were working on a tile collision engine. If you have a tileset with three tiles in it, is there a way you could use tilemap_get_at_pixel() to determine which specific tile from within that tileset it is at that pixel? I tried something with & tile_index_mask, but it didn't work...

Ahoi hoi comrades. I make a Game where you can interact a bit with your enviroment and so i want a Tileset that destroys its single components at impact. bit with all the "layer_tilemap" functions i can just change all of the tiles in the tileset. Is there a possibility to change single tiles in...

Hi, I am making a RTS game with... ants, and I was thinking to add some shaders or something to the underground, so it has details and does not seem plain images. So I thought about lights, I like the light used in the game called Empire of the Undergrowth, but is a 3D game. The underground...

Our game is a 3/4 perspective one, with z-axis support. So you can jump around, get on elevated platforms, and all that. It's working, except for the depth system. For the platforms, we have tiles, and each tile layer has its own z position. Here's an example of what we need: The hill and...