SOLVED Loading Sprite from External File problem

[Tazv1]

Hi Guys,
Probably a really simple one, but i am having trouble loading in a sprite from an external file. It is not finding the file in the drive location, but it is there! sprite_add keeps returning -1.

Any ideas what i am doing wrong?

thumbNail = "C:/Frontend/Wingman.png";

gameNum0_TN = sprite_add(thumbNail,1,false,false,0,0);

obj_gameNum0_TN.sprite_index = gameNum0_TN;

 

[Nocturne]

The File System

You need to understand how the GMS file system works. It's sandboxed by default so you need to use included files or disable the sandbox.

 

[Tazv1]

Thank you - just had a read of that section. Sorted now