GameMaker Bug List

[Tireas Dragon]

How bad would it get if i had say 50 sprites?

[Al Staffieri]

How bad would it get if i had say 50 sprites?

I'm coding sprites differently for v4.0. You'll be able to use as many sprites as you like (well there might be a really high limit like 1000 or something) and it should be a little faster than the current sprite system unless you are using a lot of sprites. But if you need a lot of sprites in the window you may not need much speed if they are used for things like items, characters, etc.

[alias]

What will the code limit be, and will we have SUBFUNCTIONs?
Also can you implement masked sprite collisions instead of just rectangular ones???

[Silverwind]

What's a subfunction?

[alias]

their also known as functions, or procedures and even subrouteins.
they work like this

SUBFUNCTION (name)
code
ENDSUB

the code isnt activated untill you use a DOSUB(name) command, or somthing along those lines.

[Silverwind]

Oh, so like methods that you can actually write in the game? Sounds useful, but regular methods are enough for me.

[alias]

GM has methods?? lol

They are also known as methods btw, i dont know how GM or SC does it but usually they are declared within the code. In C++, C, BASIC its usually like that.

But i guess it works the same way anyways.

[Al Staffieri]

I'm working on methods.

[Tireas Dragon]

So is 3.9.91 ready yet? I really need it for labyrinth.
EDIT: You said it would be ready tomorrow and when you said tomorrow it was July 17th therefore July 18th is tomorrow which is today.

[Al Staffieri]

OK. Try this out and let me know if there's any problems before i officially release it everywhere.

http://users.aol.com/macgamemaker/GMUpdate340_3991.zip

[Tireas Dragon]

[size=24]DON'T RELEASE IT YET.[/size] I can't get labyrinth to work with it. It keeps on saying nested repeat not allowed. Didn't you fix that bug? I can get it to work with 399 but not 3991 so you need to figure out what went wrong.
EDIT: Also a feature I would like is that you can hide sprite with variables like this SPRITE -number 5 5 wall6.gif instead of   Number = Number * -1 SPRITE number 5 5 wall6.gif That way I can do so much more.

[Silverwind]

Won't "SPRITE -var" work?

[Tireas Dragon]

No you have to make the value of var = to a negative value

[Silverwind]

Number = Number * -1

"var = -var" works as well. It's undocumented.

[Swamp7hing]

Wow, GM really needs a huge manual. There are so many neat things and undocumented code snippets, that games previously unachievable can now be made. Cool!