ENIGMA Development Environment

I wrote a Lib that works just fine in GM 8.1.
As for Studio it doesn't work unless I use quotes
around the "display text" argument (argument0)
so without much trouble it works in Studio too.

But not in ENIGMA. The lib is supposed draw a
rect at the bottom of the screen with text of a
different color overlapping it. The rect can
optionally have alpha transparency. But the
last argument is labeled "Visible Only If:"
so for that argument if you want the message
to be visible at all you need to make sure this
argument's value is equal to 1 or true for
however long you want it to remain visible.

It's a very simple lib and in ENIGMA it always
has an invisible rect, black text, and the string
"0" which even when I change the arguments
still all I get is a black "0". Not what it's
supposed to do at all.

My LGL / LIB can be found here so you can
see it for yourself: Download ZIP

PS Mark the Penguin is running flawlessly in
ENIGMA ATM other than the issues with this
lib so I need this fixed it's the only thing
preventing my game from working in ENIGMA.

Thanks!
~Samuel

I'm taking a break from this project for a little
while so I can recreate a small blast from the past.


Mark the Penguin is back and better than ever.

Lol thanks. =) so what's going on w/ direct show?

If you use DirectShow I can write you an example that will thread video playback.

If you'd do that it'd be amazing. I tried playing videos a while back but they only played when in full screen AND looping. Which is nearly useless. Was that a bug or was I not doing something right?

Wow, I haven't touched Bryce in ages.  If you don't mind me asking, do you use some pre made resources or all designed from scratch ? Those look custom.

Right now I am using only 3 premade materials but I modified them like crazy so you won't easily be able to tell they were a part of the Bryce distribution. They might be replaced because I want everything to be made by me, but I'm not sure if I want to do that yet. However if I do use pre-made materials by the time I release the official playable demo, I intend to use pre-made things as little as possible and when I do use them they will be greatly modified. The 3D models are all 100% by me from scratch and I do not at all intend to use a single pre-made model in this project.

Why would you do that ? That will be a memory resource killer.  Do you mean videos as cut scenes ? Why not have them streamed by the built in video commands ? Personally I use TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works for all my video conversion needs, multi-core and latest CUDA ready, it's blazing fast and high quality.

Because though I am making this project in ENIGMA for the desktop platforms AND I'd like to keep things GMS compatible because I'm going to use the same project file for exporting to mobile with GMS which doesn't support video playback. I would much rather use a video than a large PNG sprite but I have no choice due to Studio's lack in video support. It really sucks because the file size is going to be so much bigger because of this it's not even funny.

I've purchased a few add-on packs a while back for Bryce, never really gotten to using Bryce as my computer was too slow back then.

I never used add-ons for Bryce before, and could care less about investing in them, they're not worth it (except for maybe the spherical panorama one that I've had my eye on). I use Bryce 7.

If you guys are now calling d3d_start/end() deprecated even though in GM it isn't I don't like where this is going at all. Whatever happened to this being a GM compatible, GM clone? We might as well rename ENIGMA because the the path it's going is to no longer have the "GM" in "ENIGMA".

Thanks. =) unfortunately I won't be able to produce a demo for a while, 4 weeks minimum. Because every time I render 1 single 2048x2048 panorama or 1024x768 frame it takes hours/days+ to render depending how complex my scene is and how many light sources are being used. The demo will have about 50 renders at least, and perhaps some videos (In Bryce videos are exported as AVI and I'll have to convert it all to multi frame sprites). The music is and will be completely home made by me - an original sound track. Right now I have 1 soundtrack but I plan to have dozens and dozens in the full version about half a dozen in the demo. Right now I have 8 2048x2048 panoramas and 1 1024x768 render so 9 renders total. With this small amount of renders, you can't do much other than walk around and click on things that trigger text messages and/or sound effects. I have many puzzles in mind but I've got a long way to go before they can actually be played and solved.

When I render I can't do anything else on my PC but wait for the renders to finnish because Bryce hogs up all my resources and anything running other than Bryce could slow the render down and/or cause an aborting error message which are really annoying because I have to start over.

The screenshot you have looks neat, Robert, are those gravestones/fences 2D sprites or 3D models? I can't tell because they look like sprites a glance but they seem to have correct 3D perspective so IDK.