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[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

ah. don't forget you still need to set the font too:

draw_set_font(global.myFont);

otherwise it'd just use the default font.

[MaloEspada]

Yeah, I've done that.

draw_set_font(global.myFont);
draw_set_color(c_yellow);
draw_text(x-64,y,"chr(26)abcdefgh");

I'm using this just for testing, it displays this at the screen:

chr(26)abcdefgh

chr(26), or whatever the number is, doesn't change to the character I want it to display.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

no, not like that!

you have to do this:

draw_text (x-64, y, chr(26) + "abcdefgh");

you can't put the chr(26) in the quotes!

you have to do things like

"My name is " + chr(141) + "gloo."

that'd become

My name is ìgloo.

[MaloEspada]

Oh. It worked. Thank you a lot, Paul Eres!
And again, sorry for all the trouble.

[JoeHonkie]

Oh man, I've been waiting for this.  I wonder if I can find all my old code for the previous stuff...

[davidp]

hm, i was thinking of using custom fonts in my game, but never actually tried to figure it out so this helps a lot.

nice tutorial, overall

thanks.

[JasonPickering]

so I have a question. is it possible to load a font, with its actual art. or will it always just fill it in with what ever color. basically if I color in the font and dhade it and all, is there anyway to get the font to display that.

[xot]

Yes, you can have full color fonts, but they have to be sprite based. See: font_add_sprite()

[hidechron]

I'm trying to make the example .gmk run at 60 fps, but with my computer it stays around 45.
Am I that greedy with gamemaker to think that it should be working ?

[ChevyRay]

Are you sure there's not some code somewhere that's setting the room speed to 45? If you have multiple rooms in GM, generally, you have to set the FPS/roomspeed for them individually.

Otherwise, no, there's no reason why it shouldn't be running at the full 60 unless you've got some serious action going on in your game.

[hidechron]

Nope, i don't think, I have set the room to 60fps and added that line in the draw event of oGame :

Code:

draw_text(view_xview[0]+10, 200, "fps: " + string(fps))

(double checked with fraps also)

I'm stuck under 50 even in the title screen room, talk about some serious action : o).

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

did you try turning off vertical syncronization? that can lower fps drastically, often to half of a monitor's refresh rate

[hidechron]

Nope, not activated.
Maybe that's just my computer, it's pretty decent but meh, I don't know, does anyone can make that work at 60 or more(90?) fps ?

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

maybe you just have a slow computer. what's your cpu? gm games are cpu-intensive.

[hidechron]

Ok i found the problem, windows 7 isn't leaving enough memory for anything, superfetch too much maybe (disabled :/), so yeah it's working between 60-70fps at best now.
Sorry for the personnal problem...

(amd 4000+ 64X2, 2Gb, Radeon 2600Pro and Seven 64)

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

that cpu is 5 years old (wikipedia says October 18, 2004), so it's not too strange that you'd get low performance with it, my last computer had a comparable cpu and i rarely got more than 45fps in gm games with it; gm is an interpreted language, so unlike other games the bottleneck for performance is usually the cpu, not the graphics card. after i got a new computer with a more modern cpu gm games max out at around more like 100-200fps.

[hidechron]

And then I finished the 60fps shmup.

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=10711.0
Big thanks for the tutorial. Was fun to make small shmup.

[Mir@k]

Hey guys, what do you think, should i start following this tutorial series from the beggining and have it completed and wait until part V comes out, or should i wait until Derek has finished it in it's entirety before doing it?

[Kite Line]

Is there going to be a Part V, or is this pretty much over with?

[Derek]

Ah yeah... there will be.  I'm itching to finish this tutorial off, but I been busy.  Glad you guys are still interested, though!