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[[KKK]Trigrar]

seriously its gonna take about an hour for compiling half a normal sized map.

[Ghostface]

Ask the laptop, the linux and windows vista.

[[KKK]Trigrar]

Ask the laptop, the linux and windows vista.

its not a laptop 

[Phantom Brave]

GAME MAKER 7
NOW WITH AN ULTRA BLOATED SCRIPT PROCESSOR

[NAGN]

maor like all game maker exes are just a text document with a runner 

[cspotcode]

seriously its gonna take about an hour for compiling half a normal sized map.

It's my fault, and Game Maker's fault.  I've talked about this before, but basically I told Game Maker to scan every pixel of the image and pack all of those pixels into characters and put all those characters into a giant string.  It's slow because it's GML, but as the programmer I'm the one who made it do stuff it's not good at, so it's also my fault.

[Phantom Brave]

scan every pixel of the image and pack all of those pixels into characters and put all those characters into a giant string

Python

[cspotcode]

Woo, I just fixed it!  Turns out that Game Maker is really slow at reading colors off of a drawing surface.  It's very quick at drawing, but not reading.

I fixed the problem by converting the walkmask surface into a sprite and then doing collision detection on each pixel instead of reading colors.  Super-fast!  And it also shows that the string and math operations weren't the bottleneck.

I'll hopefully have an update out soon.  Gotta play around with the launchpad repo, getting things cleaned up.

[skeleton dude]

fix the kill and frag boxes while your at it please

[Phantom Brave]

fix the kill and frag boxes while your at it please

[cspotcode]

I assume the kill and fragbox problem is discussed somewhere.  Link please?

[skeleton dude]

I can't find the thread where it was discussed, but the kill and frag boxes's sprites in garrison builder are about twice the size they should be.

[cspotcode]

Ok, thanks.

EDIT: It's done, it'll be in the update.

[Rock]

And cspotcode, can you change the respawn room entity into no-build zone and change the size? It was also discussed.

[Bass]

And cspotcode, can you change the respawn room entity into no-build zone and change the size? It was also discussed.

What we can do is we can make separate masks for everything like water, respawn rooms, no build zones, frag zones, hurt zones, and it will save a shit ton of time.


Do you realize what this means? I doubt you do, so I'll explain it in a special lecture!