Question - IDE Black Bars to White Bars? [SOLVED]

[Heath Close]

I'm 2 days into learning GM2. I think it might be a perfect fit for the current game I'm making.

I've been searching around and found a great thread about scaling your game. Might be over my head right now, so here's my question:

If I want to scale a game and keep the aspect ratio... is there a way to turn the black bars into white bars? My game is on a white background, and it might look fine scaling if I can just make those white somehow.

 

[Guest User]

the bars are just the back of the game window showing through from what i understand, so it can be changed with 'window_set_color()'.

i did notice that, in my brief test just now, it will apparently be 'covered up' by the 'draw_clear*' functions so long as they're being called tho.

 

[Heath Close]

thx for the reply. I've been evaluating GM2 for about 2 days. I'm familiar with Playmaker in Unity so I've been evaluatin the DnD. I'm not sure how to implement your suggestion.

 

[Guest User]

ok i've never used DnD, but this looks promising.
f it works like i think it does you can just add this block and write this in it:

window_set_color(c_white);

'c_white' is a built in color Gamemaker comes with, it's just white.

the block should go in the 'Game Start' or 'Create' event of an object that exists at the start of the game so it can set this stuff up before you start to play.

 

[Heath Close]

awesome, thank you very much!

 

[Heath Close]

ok i've never used DnD, but this looks promising.
f it works like i think it does you can just add this block and write this in it:

window_set_color(c_white);

'c_white' is a built in color Gamemaker comes with, it's just white.

the block should go in the 'Game Start' or 'Create' event of an object that exists at the start of the game so it can set this stuff up before you start to play.

This worked perfectly!