Alright, I've got what I believe should be my last one lol. Got any tips for scaling up the actual game resolution? At glance, it seems pretty hardcoded to really only get along with 640x360, which is unfortunately just far too small for my scaled up sprites. Would you happen to know of any ways I can scale up to ~1280x720 without breaking anything?
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I'm pretty sure updating the VIEW_W / VIEW_H macros should make everything else "just work" since they're used everywhere, though GUI elements that adapt to the size might get too big and sparse and elements that don't might get small and hard to read... so you probably need some adjustments for visual style (but the CODE bit should work without changes at least, unless I messed something up). Most of the frame-based menus have coordinates in percent of the frame for all elements, so just changing the size of the frame everything's stored in should automagically resize the elements.
Maps might be broken since the map grid size is based on the number of screens the room occupies (which changes if you scale up the game to have a bigger screen), but I assume you're going to remake all levels from scratch so hopefully this isn't going to be an issue.
the problem with simply changing the values of those macros, is the game becomes extremely pixilated (only gui elements scale appropriately), and various things that rely on the view, such as obj_darknesscontrol do not scale up with the resolution; they stay the same size. So it ends it creating this little box of color overlay that only covers a portion of the screen.
Oh yeah, you might need to change the viewport settings for every room as well... I forgot they're set in GM's room editor and not by code. (There's just 7 rooms so it's not super involved). Both the "port on screen" and "view in room" values should have width/height matching your new resolution. obj_darknesscontrol uses the view size and not the VIEW_W/VIEW_H macros so this should fix that as well (the same applies to obj_control's view and deactivation code).
So I really hate to keep bothering you, but I've got another one. I can't seem to figure out how to add more animations. Say for example I want to add an extra keyframe to the sword attack animation; I create a new macro for that keyframe, add that keyframe to the skelani_init_all_keyframes script, and then add the macro for that keyframe to the array for the skani_ATTACK_SWORD in the skelani_init_all_animations script. This doesn't seem to do anything however, as the attack animation continues to only show the two original frames.
The attack animation in psm_melee uses skelani_set_animation to explicitly set the animation frame instead of playing it automatically, this is why you don't see the new frame at the end play out. Since all the default attack animations have 2 frames, the hardcoded 0 and 1 will work, but one thing you could do if you want more intricate animations is to use global.skelani_animation_length[argument0] instead of 1 when setting the animation, and for the line that goes
skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,(statecntr-atkwarmup)/atkduration)
you'd instead use
skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,global.skelani_animation_length[argument0]*(statecntr-atkwarmup)/atkduration)
(which means you interpolate between all the frames instead of just the first two)
Since indexing starts at 0 you might need to use (global.skelani_animation_length[argument0]-1) instead of just global.skelani_animation_length[argument0] to prevent the animation from looping back to the first keyframe at the end, I don't remember if the length is inclusive or not.
I seem to just be getting this error upon trying this:
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FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Step Event0
for object obj_player:
DoConv :1: illegal undefined/null use
at gml_Script_psm_melee (line 19) - skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,global.skelani_animation_length[argument0]*(statecntr-atkwarmup)/atkduration)
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stack frame is
gml_Script_psm_melee (line 19)
called from - gml_Object_obj_player_Step_0 (line 81) - script_execute(state)
Oh wait, I'm stupid... you should use atkanimation instead of argument0 when reading the animation length (I was looking at skelani_set_animation when giving you advice for psm_melee). psm_melee has no arguments so argument0 is undefined when it's run, the attack animation in use is in the atkanimation variable.
(So replace the global.skelani_animation_length[argument0] with global.skelani_animation_length[atkanimation] everywhere in psm_melee and it should work)
So I reverted psm_melee back to how it originally was, so it looks like this:
statecntr++
if(statecntr < atkwarmup){
skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,0)
}
else if(statecntr < atkwarmup + atkduration){
skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,(statecntr-atkwarmup)/atkduration)
}
else if(statecntr == atkwarmup + atkduration){
skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,1)
n = instance_create(x,y,atkhitboxobj)
n.image_xscale = skelani_xscale
n.sprite_index = atkhitboxspr
with(n){
player_weapon_get_stat_block_current()
//Heavy attacks are 30% stronger, but only for melee weaposn, so this code is only here.
if(other.atk_isheavy){
rpg_adjust_atk_stat_block_uniformly(1.3,0)
}
//When winded, lower power of attack
if(other.atk_winded){
rpg_adjust_atk_stat_block_uniformly(0.7,0)
}
//When wielding a weapon without proper stats, power is reduced greatly.
var str, dex, int, fth;
str = db_read_stat(itemtype_WEAPON,other.atk_weapon,wd_REQUIREMENT_STR)
dex = db_read_stat(itemtype_WEAPON,other.atk_weapon,wd_REQUIREMENT_DEX)
int = db_read_stat(itemtype_WEAPON,other.atk_weapon,wd_REQUIREMENT_INT)
fth = db_read_stat(itemtype_WEAPON,other.atk_weapon,wd_REQUIREMENT_FTH)
if(!player_meets_requirements(str,dex,int,fth)){
rpg_adjust_atk_stat_block_uniformly(0.1,0)
}
}
n.lifetime = atkduration
n.blockbreaker = player_weapon_get_stat(wd_BLOCKBREAKER)
}
else if(statecntr < atkwarmup + atkduration + atkcooldown){
skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,1)
}
else{
state = psm_ordinary
}
So from there, where should I be making these changes? Trying to go back through your instructions from the previous comment and then altering them with the new information doesn't seem to be working, unless I'm just putting something in the wrong place :/
Okay, to recap in a bit more structured way: the skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,(statecntr-atkwarmup)/atkduration) line should be multiplied with the number of frames in the animation, and any skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,1) should instead set it to the final frame.
It might be easier to do these changes if you add this line right below "statecntr++" to read out the length to a variable:
var anilen = global.skelani_animation_length[atkanimation];
Then use anilen as the length in the code:
skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,anilen) //Originally ended in "1"
skelani_set_animation(atkanimation,anilen*(statecntr-atkwarmup)/atkduration) //The interpolating one
If it acts weird, try setting anilen to global.skelani_animation_length[atkanimation] - 1 instead.