Adding sprites using .ini

[Sidney_Smi]

The title is pretty self explanatory. I'm designing a game that is fully "moddable", as in every variable is saved inside a .ini file. This is nice but to be fully moddable, I need to be able to select a sprite from a path set in the .ini file. Now, I've seen the code to add in the new sprite, but I'm not very familiar with it. Also, I am needing it to set a default path to where the normal sprite is, or at least set it to the default sprite, I can do that with an if statement though. So my first question, how do you use the sprite_add function, and my second question, is there a path where all the sprites are saved when you install the game through an installer?

 

[Aura]

Read the Manual entry for sprite_add to see how it works:

http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/game assets/sprites/sprite_add.html

As for the installer thing, I have never worked with them, so I can't help. Since almost everybody hates installers for small scale games, I'd suggest not to use them.

 

[rui.rosario]

is there a path where all the sprites are saved when you install the game through an installer

If I'm not mistaken Sprites are always included in the executable itself, regardless of installation method. So you would get the default Sprites inside the executable, always available, and the "modded" sprites would need to be loaded from disk.

On a side note, please be aware that dynamic Sprites created with sprite_add will have an individual texture page for themselves. So while you could have for example 30 Sprites defined in GM:S on a single texture page, if you load all 30 dynamically you will end up with 30 texture pages. This will affect the performance a lot, if you're not careful. So you might want to use alternatives to a single image loading scheme.

 

[Sidney_Smi]

I'm seeming to have trouble setting a global.variable string set as the location, can someone else try?

 

[Aura]

Please post the complete code, or we won't know what you are doing wrong. ^^'