Game Maker Help Thread!

[gummybears123]

How were they originally?  And what do you mean re-add?

And can you stop posting questions on top of my questions?  This is the second time!

How do I change the distance for falling damage?

How do I make it so that the sprite changes when I do an action? (when I double jump)

[Kirby]

I didn't realize you were the guy who needed ALL his questions answered IMMEDIATELY. Or that NOBODY else can post questions. I'm sorry.

Also originally they didn't appear at entrance to dark levels, you started the game with a limited amount of them, like bombs.

[gummybears123]

Oh, I didn't know that........ and I didn't mean it like that, sorry Kirby

[Kirby]

Sorry for getting angry, I am just in a bad mood because I'm sick today. -_-'

[banna8]

Also, I have a request of my own. Is it possible to draw a gradient rectangle (as you see in the drag and drop DRAW section) using GML?

I want to draw a gradient on the HUD using scrDrawHUD

Has anyone any insight as far as this?

[DariusK]

You can draw a gradient rectangle using the draw_rectangle_color() function. From the Game Maker help files:

draw_rectangle_color(x1,y1,x2,y2,col1,col2,col3,col4,outline) Draws a rectangle. The four colors indicated the colors at the top-left, top-right, bottom-right, and bottom-left vertex. outline indicates whether only the outline must be drawn (true) or it should be filled (false).

[gummybears123]

Darius, can you answer this?

How do I make it so that the sprite changes when I do an action? (when I double jump/fly)

[DariusK]

All you need to do is change sprite_index when the action occurs. Just set it equal to the name of the new sprite you want it switched to.

Code:

sprite_index = sYourNewSprite;

[banna8]

try :

Code:

if (kJumpPressed)
{
     sprite_index = [{FLYING SPRITE}]
}

EDIT: NINJA'D!!!

[Kirby]

How would I add flares to the HUD? And remove them from the start of the level.

[gummybears123]

try :

Code:

if (kJumpPressed)
{
     sprite_index = [{FLYING SPRITE}]
}

EDIT: NINJA'D!!!

Where do I put this?

And answer Kirby too

How would I add flares to the HUD? And remove them from the start of the level.

[marsgreekgod]

In readding flares, how would you change kFlarePressed ?

[banna8]

scrCharacterStepEvent for gummy, and im looking for kirby's answer.

KIRBY!! there are two hunks of code commented out in the step event of oPlayer1 in the action block. They are at lines 13 and 945. Un comment those out.

in scrEntityGen, comment out the flarecrate spawning part at line 528

[gummybears123]

Thanks, and how do I make it so that only when I'm in that sprite and I touch the ceiling, I change sprites?  ( I dont know how to do the ceiling part)

[marsgreekgod]

 collision_point(x+8, y-1, oSolid, 0, 0

might be what you looking for gummy