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Question - Code sprite_width not working?

  • Thread starter I suck at videogames
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I suck at videogames

Guest
Hello everyone,

I was making Conway's game of life in game maker studio 2, however, if I try to compile it, something weird happens. It says there's an error in line 6 and 7 of my create event in obj_game (the object I use to update the fields on the board), it says
"Object: obj_game Event: Create at line 6: unknown function or script sprite_width"
the same for line seven. My code is at the bottom of this post. I have no idea what's causing this to happen and I'd really appreciate your help!

The create event
Code:
/// @description Setup the object
// You can write your code in this editor

toDrawSprite = spr_square;

spriteWidth = sprite_width(spr_square);
spriteHeight = sprite_height(toDrawSprite);

sizeOfBoard = 10;

//create the board
for (i = 0; i < sizeOfBoard; i += 1) {

    for (j = 0; j < sizeOfBoard; j += 1) {

        global.board[j,i] = false;

    }

}

//make the "nextBoard"
for (i = 0; i < sizeOfBoard; i += 1) {

    for (j = 0; j < sizeOfBoard; j += 1) {

        nextBoard[j,i] = false;

    }

}
The draw event
Code:
/// @description Draw and update the field
// You can write your code in this editor

//draw the current board
for(i = 0; i < sizeOfBoard; i += 1) {

    for (j = 0; j < sizeOfBoard; j += 1) {
 
        currentField = board[j,i];
     
        toDrawX = j * spriteWidth;
        toDrawY = i * spriteHeight;
     
        switch(currentField) {
     
        case true:
            draw_sprite(toDrawSprite, 1, toDrawX, toDrawY);
            break;
        case false:
            draw_sprite(toDrawSprite, 0, toDrawX,toDrawY);
            break;
        default:
            break;
        }
 
    }

}

//update field for next turn;
for (i = 0; i < sizeOfBoard; i += 1) {

    for (j = 0; j < sizeOfBoard; j += 1) {

        currentBoard[i,j] = false;

        currentField = board[j,i];
     
        surroundingFields = 0;
     
        if(board[j-1,i-1]) surroundingFields += 1;
        if(board[j,i-1]) surroundingFields += 1;
        if(board[j+1,i-1]) surroundingFields += 1;
        if(board[j-1,i]) surroundingFields += 1;
        if(board[j+1,i]) surroundingFields += 1;
        if(board[j-1,i+1]) surroundingFields += 1;
        if(board[j,i+1]) surroundingFields += 1;
        if(board[j+1,i+1]) surroundingFields += 1;
     
        if(currentField) {
     
            if(surroundingFields >= 4 /*If field is overpopulated*/ || surroundingFields <= 1 /*If the field dies of solitude*/) nextBoard[j,i] = false;
     
        } else {
     
            if(surroundingFields == 3) nextBoard[j,i] = true;
     
        }

    }

}

board = nextBoard;
 
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psyke

Guest
Yeah, it's because sprite_width is not a function, it's a variable.

You can use it like this:
Code:
my_object.sprite_width
It will take the width from the current sprite assigned to the object. If you want to get the width from a specific sprite, then yes, you should use sprite_get_width instead.

EDIT: please note that sprite_width will also take into consideration the image_xscale. So if your sprite is 32 pixels wide, and you set the image_xscale to 2, it will return 64 as the width.
 

hippyman

Member
sprite_width also considers scale as well as size. So say you have a 32x32 sprite. If it has a x scale of 0.5 and a y scale of 2, sprite_width will return 16 and sprite_height will return 64.

sprite_get_* functions return actual size in pixels, so with the same scenario above, sprite_get_width and sprite_get_height will return 32x32 no matter what.
 
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