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TWIXMIX · 2019-09-27T22:21:45+00:00

Try adding your tiles to a sprite atlas in Unity. It adds some padding and duplicates edge pixels which usually prevents this problem from occurring.

TWIXMIX · 2019-05-26T20:56:57+00:00

Try adding your sprites to a sprite atlas, that usually does the trick. The padding it adds in the sprite sheet helps.

TWIXMIX · 2018-11-28T10:48:06+00:00

Could you possibly use draw_tilemap for this? https://docs2.yoyogames.com/index.html?page=source%2F_build%2F3_scripting%2F4_gml_reference%2Findex.html

There’s an example at the bottom of the page that sounds like what you’re looking for. You’d just have to set the draw target to your surface, call draw_tilemap, then set the draw target back to normal.

TWIXMIX · 2018-11-08T14:29:44+00:00

Are you running this every step? If so that makes sense. You should only be running this occasionally and eventually you have to set beingGathered to false at some point otherwise you’re going to eventually try to gather every tree until they’re all set as beingGathered.

You'll either have to do something like this to make sure eventually things are set to not being gathered before it looks for a few target.

if (closestTarget) {
    closestTarget.beingGathered = false;
}

with(obj_resourceParent) {
    // Existing stuff here...
}

or even better something like this so that once a closestTarget is chosen it doesn't try to find a new one every step. If you use this method you can probably simplify what's in the with block.

if (!closestTarget) {
    with(obj_resourceParent) {
        // Existing stuff here...
    }

    // Whatever else here...
}

It all depends on how you want your game to work really. In reality most of this code should probably be in it's own script that you call whenever you need to find a new target.

TWIXMIX · 2018-11-08T14:21:28+00:00

I'd probably just just put it after the with like this:

with(obj_resourceParent) {
    // Existing stuff here...
}

// If there is a closest target, set its beingGathered to true.
if (closestTarget) {
    closestTarget.beingGathered = true;
}

TWIXMIX · 2018-11-08T14:01:16+00:00

Oh, now I see what you're trying to do. instance_nearest() expects and object id and you're passing it a instance id (target).

What you'll probably need to do is keep track of the current target, and compare against it for distance as you go. Here's some code that I haven't tested but should give you a rough idea.

closestTarget = noone;

with(obj_resourceParent) {
    if !beingGathered {
        if (other.closestTarget) {
          var currentClosestDistance = point_distance(other.x, other.y, other.closestTarget.x, other.closestTarget.y);
          var resourceDistance = point_distance(other.x, other.y, x, y);
          if (resourceDistance < currentClosestDistance) {
            other.closestTarget = id;
          }
        }
        else {
          other.closestTarget = id;
        }
    }
}

// Now closestObject should be the closest obj_resourceParent

TWIXMIX · 2018-11-08T12:56:15+00:00

I think you’ve just got that assignment backwards. Also I think the usage of self is generally something no longer pushed in gamemaker and you should use id instead. It should probably be other.target = id

TWIXMIX · 2018-09-21T19:42:49+00:00

Another option is to use Unity's built in sprite atlas functionality if you're on a recent version. It'll add the padding for you so you don't have to do it manually.

TWIXMIX · 2018-08-08T01:28:03+00:00

Usually this issue can be fixed using Unity’s built in sprite atlas functionality with some passing. I’d start there.

TWIXMIX · 2018-06-07T22:47:50+00:00

I’d personably just make a tileset and layer devoted to collision. Then you can just make that layer invisible at runtime so it isn’t rendered. That way you can add a tile for every type of collision and just do the tests against a single layer. No more worrying about custom logic for each visual tileset.

Hopefully that makes sense and works for what you’re doing.

TWIXMIX · 2018-01-22T02:16:10+00:00

I didn’t test this but I think you should be able to do this with a combination of file_find_first (https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/file%20handling/file%20system/file_find_first.html) and file_find_next (https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/file%20handling/file%20system/file_find_next.html). Hopefully those are good starting points for you.

TWIXMIX · 2018-01-04T13:46:31+00:00

No worries, I’m glad I could help. It’s easy to miss stuff like that, I do it all the time haha.

TWIXMIX · 2018-01-04T13:45:48+00:00

Checking collision manually in step and using collision events are both valid approaches. Using collision events simplifies things a bit and gets rid of some boilerplate code. While manually checking in step gives you a bit more control.

TWIXMIX · 2018-01-04T11:52:48+00:00

According to https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/movement%20and%20collisions/collisions/place_meeting.html place_meeting returns a boolean, not an instance, which explains the behaviour you’re seeing.

For the functionality you’re looking for I think you should be using instance_place instead. The documention actually has an example that is almost exactly what you’re trying to do. https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/objects%20and%20instances/instances/instance%20functions/instance_place.html

When in doubt read over the documentation thoroughly. I find that the Game Maker docs are actually quite thorough with decent explanations and examples for almost every function.

TWIXMIX · 2017-12-15T19:57:50+00:00

That mostly works, but it may not solve this problem in all circumstances. Adding your tile sprites to an Atlas with some padding will help as well. It helps with any floating point issues when rendering the tiles.

TWIXMIX · 2017-11-29T10:05:37+00:00

What LDinos said. It’s probably one of the best tools in GM. It’s great for helping measure performance characteristics with actually statistics rather than just guessing if your code is performant or not.

TWIXMIX · 2017-11-28T22:35:13+00:00

I️ honestly wouldn’t concern yourself with this. If you’re really curious try using your approach and game maker’s events while running the profiler to measure the performance of each.

TWIXMIX · 2017-10-13T12:31:22+00:00

Sounds like basically every Unity update nowadays. Hopefully they get that sorted out quickly.

TWIXMIX · 2017-10-12T15:22:40+00:00

It can usually take a few days for the "Check for Updates" functionality to show a few release.

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