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[JasonPickering]

hey I have a technical question.

would it be possible to on the press of a button rotate the room in gamemaker, or probably more likely, turn the view and gravity 90 degrees.

[Paint by Numbers]

Code:

all.image_angle+=90

Put in the event of the button being pressed should change everything's angle.

I don't think you can rotate the view, but you can change its shape using view_xport[] and view_yport[].

A more experienced GM user might know more, but that's an easy way, I think.

[Andy Wolff]

just change view_angle

You could also do some trig to move everything around a point, but I don't think that's what you're looking for

[ChevyRay]

What Andy said.

The way I did it in Skullpogo, though, was just to rotate the surface that the room was drawn on, which works as well. But the view_angle method is better in most cases because it doesn't use surfaces, which are incompatible with some graphics cards.

Also, you might find it a pain that any HUD graphics you draw on the screen are also rotated when you use view_angle. To correct this, you can do the following...

I think it looked something like this, a trick Shaltif showed me:

Code:

d3d_set_projection_ortho(0,0,view_wport[view_current],view_hport[view_current],0);
   d3d_set_hidden(0);
   // ---------- DRAW STUFF HERE ----------
   d3d_set_hidden(1);