GameMaker Drawing Surfaces

[philman401]

I don't know what I am doing wrong. I have not used GM in a while and just got GM 2 recently. I've looked back in my previous games as well as online examples/tutorials but my surfaces can't seem to draw.

So at game start I create a surface:

global.msurface := surface_create(192,144);

And at a Draw GUI event:

surface_set_target(global.msurface);
draw_set_color(c_black);
draw_circle(0,0,25,0);
draw_surface(global.msurface,0,0);
surface_reset_target();

I also added the code to create surface if it no longer exists.

If I draw the circle normally w/o surfaces it appears, but once I try making a surface I can't seem to see it even though I have replicated a tutorial properly. I also tried using a regular draw event.

I am using views but everything atm is exactly at 0,0 of the room. My previous project uses views and drawing surfaces on the view but for some reason I can't get it to work with this new project.

 

[Simon Gust]

currently you're drawing the surface on itself but you're never drawing it on the application surface which would be required for the surface to be visible

surface_set_target(global.msurface);
draw_set_color(c_black);
draw_circle(0,0,25,0);
surface_reset_target();

draw_surface(global.msurface,0,0);

 

[philman401]

Oh thanks!