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Sprites Warp and Stretch as the Player Moves

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Lewis Hammond

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Recently I've been working on a space style shooter game and have just started to add randomly generated stars, the only problem I notice is as I (the player) moves the sprites seem turn stretch out depending on how fast I am moving and turn in the direction I am heading. No variables are linked between the two sprites. I have attached a Youtube video of the issue and a download to the source code so that anyone who wished to look in to the issue can easily see all the grahpics options I have set.

Youtube Video:
Source Download: Removed

EDIT: Issue seems to be a trick on the eyes, thanks for the help
 
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Aura

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You should post the related code instead of posting the complete project. Either way, it seems like an image_xscale (or image_yscale) issue to me. For instance, if you are setting it to hspeed and hspeed is equal to 5 then the sprite would stretch horizontally 5 times! If you want to simply flip the sprite, use sign().

Code:
if (hspeed != 0) {
   image_xscale = sign(hspeed);
}
 
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Lewis Hammond

Guest
You should post the related code instead of posting the complete project. Either way, it seems like an image_xscale (or image_yscale) issue to me. For instance, if you are setting it to hspeed and hspeed is equal to 5 then the sprite would stretch horizontally 5 times! If you want to simply flip the sprite, use sign().

Code:
if (hspeed != 0) {
   image_xscale = sign(hspeed);
}
I don't want the sprites to move at all, they stretch and move without me adding any code to them.
 
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Jaqueta

Guest
Probably the problem is with your monitor, I was able to see this "effect" on my "awesome" Laptop too, however, when I paused the video, it was completely normal. Try pausing the video while the ship is moving, and see if the effect persists.
 
.....This looks like simple motion blur? I think your eyes may be playing tricks on you, here. Take a SCREENSHOT of your game instead of a video. Is the "stretching" still present? The only other thing I can think of is that if you're scaling your game, you may have pixel interpolation activated in the general game settings. That *will* deform your pixels when you move if you're not scaling by an integer amount.

Edit: ah, ninja'd. There you go. They effect is just your eyes and monitor. :p
 
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Lewis Hammond

Guest
Ah, doesn't seem like anything I'm doing wrong and is just a trick on the eyes, thanks for the help :)
 
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