ENIGMA Development Environment

CLANG isn't that what YYG uses for its YYC ?

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I also managed to get a new LGM option to improve compatibility with GM. It says "Be slow". Because GM is so slow ROFLCOPTER, and being fast breaks compatibility with some GM games. So this option injects a sleep() every 20 statements, to keep things balanced. But it's not just any sleep. It's a C++ sleep. Yeah! Damn straight.
Also, Windows 8 is retarded.

That made my otherwise boring day  LMAO.

Wow you are good Darkstar you have really good graphics hardware, I only have OpenGL 4.1, thanks for the info!

Yeah I think I'm due to upgrade in a couple of months lol!

Sometimes I wonder what good is to have all those GPU capabilities if none gets used or only a fraction of a hardware's power is used....When was the last time you ran an OpenGL 4 capable game ? Let alone OGl3!

They were probably being sarcastic, I mean who the hell hasn't heard of Linux lol, if you were to go to a kindergarten and ask kids about Linux I'm sure majority would tell you what it is.......
As far as the old MAC better for editing, that is another big myth.  Maybe it was at some point say couple of decades ago ?   Perhaps in terms of OS and system stability ?  People generalize.  If you have a good motherboard/chipset, memory, CPU, GPU, power supply ,etc, that make a STABLE system you will do fine.  I worked for years with large projects video / film edits and I used PCs and never had any problems.  It all comes down to the software and hardware, not whether it is PC or MAC.

Texas Instrument Calculators
Smart Toaster oven
Sinclair
Apple II
& VIC-20

 

I think GM-Compatibility should be applied as much as possible with almost every major release GM supported. I don't like the idea of ENIGMA having compatibility targeted at GM6 primarily because of how old it is and how much better GMStudio has proven to be,

How much better compared to GM6 yes in some areas but in some areas actually much worse (deprecating external resources functions, video functions, etc.) if you don't however need those, sure by a mile better.  Perhaps at most minimal GM8 compatibility and forward.   Remember the big fuckup in older versions of GM where full screen was not really fullscreen ? and if you changed screen res in your game how it would fuck up icons in the user's desktop ? Who can forget that !  As much as many things were addressed in GM:S in some areas they have really gone downhill.  They are too damn lazy !!!  Very obvious grammar and spelling mistakes in their docs, incomplete, unwilling to fix things and listen to their customers, etc. 

Ideally would have been a totally different product that did what GMS did but better,
with a look and feel IDE so people can be familiar with what they know and an extensive documentation to have people relearn how to do things, example you do this in GML that's how you do it now type.
Maybe 100% with all GM versions is asking too much and obviously will never happen

even with all its bugs. If the compatibility were completely dropped at any level, that would attract even less people into trying ENIGMA, because almost everyone in this community is made up of people who used to use GM or still does.

Agreed, however, ENIGMA has to offer something better for people to switch over.  If using ENIGMA means significantly better but having to relearn a few things, I'm sure people would accept the tradeoff, providing it is well documented.  Personally I like ENIGMA because it is compatible GML/D&D/IDE and familiar to me, but I also would not mind having to relearn new things if it means I can make better games, having better performance and not having to deal with a company that removes windows functions every moon cycle !

If the compatibility dropped that would require us to completely disregard the entire reason the ENIGMA project ever began. It was made to be a GM clone, that's why 'ENIGMA' has 'GM' in its name. Shall we rename the product to 'ENIA' while we're at it?

Who are you kidding ! of course it would be brilliant for ENIGMA to be 100% studio compatible lol.  I agree 100%  I would not mind compatibility + added new functions / uniqueness, that would satisfy the GM fan + people who don't mind building from scratch and learning stuff.

So what would make me return to using GM:S ?

* Bringing back video functions removed from windows along with other functions they removed because they were too lazy to implement it for other platforms, despite their competition providing these basics across all platforms ! 

* Stop forcing people to do what YoYo wants.  If I want to use WAV files, so be it, if I want to use MP3, so be it.... No matter what sound source you use everything gets compressed.

* Poor handling of resources.  I liked how flexible things were back in GM6/8, giving you control over external resources.  These functions are now removed in GMS, yoyo
claims now it is handled automatically..... right their amazing data.wim and unencrypted resources, thanks a lot.

* GM:S Windows only customers having to pay $299 for a compiler, they are too damn lazy to even have several price structures.  The $299 obviously includes YYC for at least 3 platforms!!! So if I have GM:S Pro and only want to compile windows apps, why should I have to pay for platforms I don't use ?  Perhaps it would have been more reasonable to charge a lower price, reflecting only for Windows export YYC.
Also their YYC and how it is implemented, is another issue, it has issues, some people still complaining about it.

SO........As you can see despite GMS being better than GM6 in many ways, you can see there are still many reasons that would push GMS users to use ENIGMA and even more reason why some would trade off a bit of compatibility if it means making better games!

I know what's coming in GMS and new exports to be introduced.  and new IDE +
other stuff, (+ even more bugs) and even more removed functions on the menu, and for dessert, a price increase eventually.
$1000??? So get your GM Masters now at $800 on special ?

So people are asking console exports !
LOL yikes !   Right like I want a shitty game ported to XBOX360 I'm all excited.

Instead of wasting their time and resources and trying to be way ahead of themselves, they should focus on providing the ability of GM to make actually decent and fast games.

GM6 compatibility ? Strangely most of the Gm6 stuff I ran did not work But that's ok.
I intend to do everything from scratch !

Personally I don't mind if ENIGMA was not 100% compatible, but as long as it was
properly documented, in the sense that
it mentioned exactly what is NOT compatible, and what to use instead.

I think ENIGMA needs some uniqueness, compatible ? ok but unique features as currently it has and even more.  When you have a semi shitty product, do you want to be 100% SHIT compatible, or improve in the areas where GayMaker lacks ?

So far ENIGMA exceeds in many areas but still lacks in some (if we are to talk compatibility).

Is it safe to say that ENIGMA can be used to make a complete game from scratch as opposed to importing an existing GM game?

I would think most issues people have are importing GM projects.

But then again I hear of certain stuff not supported yet or broken in ENIGMA.

I don't know if it was Daily or someone else who labeled ENIGMA as "garbage".  LOL
I'm sure it can be dug up in the GMC.
Kinda ironic, but perhaps they should look in the mirror and try to listen to their customers and look what competition offers which they don't.....  (by competition I mean commercial products!). Most of their competition offer video playback as a standard feature for windows AND mobile exports. Why the !!!FUCK!!! can't they ?
You'd think an $800 product would have the basic functions    

So to me ENIGMA is great, for a free product well beyond my expectations I expected far worse when I first learned about it. But indeed it has ways to go, and despite being a bit disappointed of some basic GM6/GM8 projects not working, I don't see any bright future for GM, they are on the wrong path as far as I'm concerned and they are not going to get my money!

Well alrighty then. The image is actually based directly on a hallucination I had several years ago, due to lack of sleep. I remember it like it was yesterday. So you're not comfortable with sharing what you saw that's so badass?

no I am perfectly comfortable sharing lol I too had hallucinations before due to to sleep disturbances, stress, highly erratic sleep schedules,  crazy schedules, lack of sleep etc, trust me, I've seen it too, hallucinated about far scarier shit   room sized giant spiders, shimmering doors in my room, hell, fire, etc... and just frightening images,animals, shadow people,  I think they call this the hag syndrome Anyhow, but it doesn't end there, combine that with sleep paralysis at the same fucking time, you see shit but can't move for half a minute.
Then sometimes I'd feel like creature like or hard to explain stuff choking me or putting their fangs in my back etc.... Sleep paralysis combined with hag syndrome is a quite a motherfucker ! 
 combine that with the fact I am a very lucid dreamer, I remember my dreams as real as real life. 
Now I get far less of these (paralysis) and sleep induced hallucinations, but still get excruciatingly vivid dreams,

So take your creature there, imagine something that is 100x bigger, 100x scarier, something that moves towards you while you are paralyzed and can't move or talk......  Now imagine you are in sleep paralysis and have 100s of your creatures coming towards you

Now on my daily life I come across some people who are "creeps" that was figure of speech sometimes I think I deal with crazy people who are not human.....hence the asylum reference lol.  So when people ask me where I work I have the habit of telling them a mental asylum lol!

You know that big ass spider creature in Half Life 2, imagine something 200x bigger and fatter.. Sometimes I get those weird dreams so intense I wake up feeling as though I am drained from a 12 hour workout ! lol.

But the good news is that your creature is
scarier than the ones in Doom and far better looking ! lol.