Question - IDE GMS2 Real-Time resource creation

[Alexander123]

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this topic but I do believe that it shouldn't be an issue.
I was wondering if it would be possible to create .yyc resources in real time? What I mean by that is if it would be possible to import an image inside your game and create a .yyc resource (sprite in this example) inside the core game folder? For example I'd import an image "test.img" while the game is running and I'd convert it to a .yyc resource in the background and implement it into the project folder. Next time I run the game the image would be indexed inside the editor and would be "read" as a sprite.

Is something like this possible with GMS functions?

Thanks in advance, Alex

 

[TsukaYuriko]

Not the way you're imagining, but you can dynamically load resources via functions such as sprite_add at run time.

 

[Alexander123]

So it's not possible to create a gms2 resource file directly from the game and "keep it/use it" as any other resource afterwards in the project folder?

 

[TsukaYuriko]

That's correct, unless you create it manually. You'd need to know the format specifications of the corresponding format for that, though, and as far as I'm aware, those are not public.

 

[YellowAfterlife]

You can use the new non-sandboxed file access features to have your game read your YYP file, add a resource to it, and write it back into project directory, but this will involve some investigative work on format of each respective YY file.

 

[Alexander123]

You can use the new non-sandboxed file access features to have your game read your YYP file, add a resource to it, and write it back into project directory, but this will involve some investigative work on format of each respective YY file.

Can you provide any links or documentation? It'd be appreciated, thanks.

 

[TsukaYuriko]

Documentation regarding the sandbox can be found on the File System manual page. There's also a page about File Handling.

 

[Alexander123]

@YellowAfterlife Deconstructing the .yy file was pretty easy to be honest, since it was in plain text and it was a JSON object, it also does work very well with my idea of implementing the files inside the project itself through the game. Thanks a lot, you were quite helpful. I was wondering though if there was a way to get the current project directory from the game itself? Knowing that the game isn't restricted to save files inside the sandbox anymore I'd like to be able to dynamically get the current project path which as far as I can see isn't possible? I can only get the "working_directory" and the temporary directory.

 

[TsukaYuriko]

If by project path, you mean the path of the source files: That's not possible, as compiled games do not keep track of this. You can, however, save this in a constant manually.

If you're talking about the folder the compiled .exe resides in, you're looking for program_directory.