~~Last update: 9/29/08~~
Added 1 more link, under “gameplay”.
I haven’t used that many single letters in a title since…well, ever.
Anyways, as a follow up to my last article, here’s a project I’m starting which I hope will reduce the amount of the duplicate topics in the GMC Q&A forums (thanks to Snail Productions for the idea). It’s a list of links to topics on the GMC that answer many common questions. NOTE that it is an ongoing WIP, which means as I find more appropriate topics in the GMC Q&A forums, I will list them here.
I hope people will look here for a link before just randomly posting a topic on the GMC. Here we go:
Drawing:
How to keep text in the view
Why the object disappears when you use the draw event
Drawing in two views
Making surface background transparent
Splash Screens:
Customizing message boxes (the link disappeared…I have to find the thread again)
Graphics:
Drawing a stretched sprite
Moving the view with code
Drawing a rotated rectangle
Drawing part of a sprite
Math:
Converting to hexadecimal
Math behind lengthdir functions
Rounding to one decimal point
Finding the lowest common denominator
Gameplay:
Shooting from somewhere other than the sprite’s origin
Stopping after using move_towards_point()
Moving an object in a circle around another object
Snapping an object to the grid with GML
Dragging and dropping an object with the mouse
Other:
Passing an array to a script
Minimizing the game window
Let me know if there are any problems with this list, i.e. if one of the topics isn’t successfully answered.
