ENIGMA Development Environment

WARNING: Mac OS X is a terrible operating system and shouldn't be used by anyone under any circumstances.

~ http://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Mac#Dependencies

What the fuck, while it may be overpriced, it whoops Linux' ass big time. I have never in my life met a single person in-person that actually uses Linux other than my uncle who lives in Alaska, and he's a geek. Linux is best suited to geeks, (the minority), the way you always have to fuck around with the terminal and shit is why it requires geek-knowledge. Windows is the number one desktop OS in the world, and Mac is closely behind. In fact, in-person I've met just as many Mac users as Windows users. Mac is NOT a terrible OS and it should be focussed on 1000x more than all the time that's been wasted on such a niche platform like Linux that nobody actually uses.

Windows is more suitable for boring office building work and Mac is better for graphic design, audio, media editing and hardware acceleration.

I actually met someone last friday that said something to the same effect of the quote above, and I completely agree. I hate iOS, and I hate Apple as a company, but their desktops and laptops were definitely done right. I wouldn't even wipe my ass with a Linux harddrive. But a Mac, I've wanted one for years but never had the money for it. I've always known about Windows and Mac, but I didn't know what Linux was or that it even existed until about two or three years ago. I have talked with my friends at school about Linux and they had no clue what I was talking about, they didn't even know what Linux was.

Robert even mentioned GMStudio uses an open source-based system for its shaders, I think ENIGMA's current shader system should be scrapped and replaced with the same thing GMStudio uses, that way it will also ensure 100% GMS compatibility.

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?

Thanks. I didn't know you worked at a psychiatric hospital. What do you mean by you've seen things creepier?

I don't think you read my post - custom DND whether lib or lgl if they aren't libs that are automatically shipped with ENIGMA they won't work, as simple as that. You need to use code instead if you want to get anywhere with 3D at the moment.

@DarkStar - ENIGMA's 3D works just fine, either someone accidentally broke it in an update, or something is wrong with your code. Daz had a similar problem and he thought it was a bug too but it just turned out he forgot to use draw_set_color(c_white). Literally everything about the 3D used to work for me exactly how it also does in GMS so if your 110% sure your code isn't the problem, file a bug on the tracker, because someone must have broke it by accident and may only need a few lines of code to fix. I'm saying this from experience, once upon a time a month or two ago the 3D behaved EXACTLY the same in ENIGMA as it does in GMS. After you file this bug, it's only a matter of a week before it should be fixed anyway, so nothing to get worked up about.

Thanks guys for considering it, as I'm sure there's a lot on your plate as is. But though I would love to use these in ENIGMA that wasn't the primary reason in why I posted this. I posted this because these two 3D capabilities are something GM has always lacked, and now that GM can do such things it is a huge breakthrough to the GM community.

If we focussed less on fixing on minor various bugs that may or may not effect whether someone's game would work, and we temporarily focussed all on getting more significant things like this to work, it would definitely skyrocket ENIGMA's popularity if all goes as hoped, which is what I'd really like to see. ENIGMA really deserves the popularity it has always lacked.

Edit: I updated the OP.

doesn't it defeat the purpose ?

Why yes it does.

Perhaps he did that for a similar reason arrays can be used, to have more than one value stored in a slight variation of one variable name.

for instance you could do....
poop[1]=crap
poop[2]=shit
or the way he did it, which isn't isn't nearly as convenient, and doesn't completely have the same effect
poop=crap
_poop=shit
I think he just couldn't think of a variable name that made sense and that could not easily be easily differentiated from a variable name he already had in use, so he added an underscore to the new variable.