ENIGMA Development Environment

It seems the very cool sleep function isn't that cool after all. Try setting room speed to 999 (which should disable sleep) and see what you get (and check if you get stable 999, if not then set it lower so it's stable).

Interesting. I tried many different values, and here is the result:

Room speed between 1 and 59 -> CPU 13 %
Room speed between 60 and 999 -> CPU 25 %

I've a hierarchy of objects : obj_monsters -> obj_monsters_level_1 -> obj_monster1, obj_monster2, etc...

When the level starts i deactivate all monsters :

instance_deactivate_object(obj_monster)
and then i want to activate the monsters for the current level

instance_activate_object(obj_monsters_level_1 );
It doesn't work. When all instances of monsters are deactivated, you can all only activate directly the child (leaf) objects (obj_monster1, obj_monster2) but not the parents (obj_monsters, obj_monsters_level_1).

I tested the code on GM 8.1 and i don't have this problem. Of course i could find workarounds, but this is annoying.

Try turning off the background in room, if that doesn't show anything then set automatic redrawing to false. I don't think "Sleep on minimize" thing is implemented, but if it is then try that as well.

It doesn't change anything. I tried also with OpenGL 3.0 but it doesn't change the result. By the way, it's not possible to make an executable with Open 3.0, i've error messages. I've found an Open GL profiler : http://www.gremedy.com/free_license.php. Here is the result :







I don't know if it's useful for you.

What about adding a 'Donate' button on the web site ? I know developers of ENIGMA don't do it for money, but i guess they would not mind buying a Ferrari !  Seriously, i would not mind donating some money to the team. 

I doubt DirectX would change anything.

I don't know, but i heard that the support of Open GL on Windows is not good. That's why i was thinking about DirectX.

In a 'obj_game_controller' object, i have a 'step event' which tests  if we are starting a level. If it's the case, it will display a room transition effect with the help of of the object 'obj_start_level'. After the animation is finished, the 'obj_start_level' destroys itself with instance_destroy().
Here is an excerpt of the code in the 'step event' of 'obj_game_controller' :

if (game_state = START_LEVEL)
{
  .....

  instance_create(0, 0, obj_start_level);
 
  // wait until the transition is finished

  // Do other stuff
}
After the 'instance_create(0, 0, obj_start_level);' line, i would like to wait until the transition is finished to do other stuff. This is important for me, as for example i don't the want the sprites to move before the animation is finished. I tried several things to implement the 'wait', like this :

while (instance_exists(obj_start_level))
{
  screen_redraw();
}
But it doesn't work, i've always a infinite loop. In the object 'obj_start_level', if i don't try to implement the 'wait' in 'obj_game_controller', i am sure the instance_destroy is called when the transition is finished (I tested it by showing a message before the call). Another solution would be to implement in the 'step event' event of the objects a test :

if (game_state = START_LEVEL) exit;
But i don't find this solution very elegant.  Any help is welcome.

If i open for the first time the 'Global Game Settings' window, it's fine, but if close the window, no matter what i try, it's impossible to open it again.

Hello,

If you add the action 'Call the inherited event', you have the following error message when you compile the project : 'Unknown function or script 'action_inherited'.