News on GameMaker v4.0

[Zoo]

It's so old you could probably get it for free. good books though.

[x]

First you would need to download the text from the book. I don't know of anywhere you could do that though.

You mean the movies right...

[Zoo]

Wait!? What!? The movies?
You should read the books some time.

[x]

Wait!? What!? The movies?
You should read the books some time.

I read the books long  before I saw the movies. But I think Eq meant he was going to port each frame of the movie movie over card by card
 

[Silverwind]

Oddly enough I've only just finished rereading The Hobbit, and I started The Fellowship of the Ring again this evening. Tolkien's the best writer ever.

[x]

Oddly enough I've only just finished rereading The Hobbit, and I started The Fellowship of the Ring again this evening. Tolkien's the best writer ever.

I know this is getting way off topic, but...... Personally I don't really like Tolkien at all. Both stylistically and in terms of the actual content of his stories.

I get the feeling I am going to be kidnapped by the literary FBI.

[Zoo]

He may not be the best, but his books are better than most.
On the topic of GM 4 though I was wondering about rotating sprites, and what about the sprite limit?

As for the icon, I just got a new Imac running 10.6 and GM actually has no picture on the application's icon. Just the little A made by a ruler a pencil and a paintbrush.  

[Al Staffieri]

On the topic of GM 4 though I was wondering about rotating sprites, and what about the sprite limit?

As for the icon, I just got a new Imac running 10.6 and GM actually has no picture on the application's icon. Just the little A made by a ruler a pencil and a paintbrush.  

I think I wrote some code to have unlimited sprites, but I'd have to go back and check to be sure.

As for the icons, OS X 10.6 no longer displays the old style icon resources, so it just shows the default application icon.

[Gan]

Can GM flip fast enough to make a movie?

[GMG Mike]

I think I wrote some code to have unlimited sprites, but I'd have to go back and check to be sure.

As for the icons, OS X 10.6 no longer displays the old style icon resources, so it just shows the default application icon.

OS 10.6 will still display "icns" resources - because if you use the Finder/Get Info to paste your own picture onto a regular old text file, it will actually create a resource fork with an "icns" resource to store the icon. Another way the resource fork is still used - if you set a document to open in a specific program using Get Info, the Finder will add a "usro" resource.

So, we can convert all of the 8-bit icon resources into "icns" using Iconographer. GM would still have the 8-bit resources to display in the icon chooser (because displaying an icns requires different code) - but when it compiles the game it would put in the "icns" instead. This would fix the bug and only require a small change to GM which still seems to work fine otherwise in 10.6.

[Al Staffieri]

we can convert all of the 8-bit icon resources into "icns" using Iconographer. GM would still have the 8-bit resources to display in the icon chooser (because displaying an icns requires different code) - but when it compiles the game it would put in the "icns" instead. This would fix the bug and only require a small change to GM which still seems to work fine otherwise in 10.6.

I will check that out. Thanks.

EDIT: Hey this seems to work. I'll have to play with this some more and then update the compiler to add icns resources to the compiled games.

[Zoo]

Will GM 4 have a better save/load game system? the old one works fine, but if you double click the file in finder, it opens a random game. I love doing that and playing what ever game I get.

[GMG Mike]

Will GM 4 have a better save/load game system? the old one works fine, but if you double click the file in finder, it opens a random game. I love doing that and playing what ever game I get.

I think OS X 10.6 also screws up creator codes. Not sure of a workaround for this.

[Zoo]

Any new progress, I'm super excited  . this is like one of the biggest GM upgrades in a long time (well, actually, I wouldn't know. I haven't had GM for that long)

[Al Staffieri]

The application icon problem seems like it can't be fixed for now. The Finder in OS X 10.6 must keep track of what files it adds an icns icon to because simply changing them doesn't work. This will be fixed in v4.0 since it will be a bundle application.

The double clicking a file will also be fixed in v4.0 because it will use a plist file rather than file types.