ENIGMA Development Environment

The point of using one (or many) large files is usually to get better disk throughput.

Also Darkstar, why would you need to have the files uncompress / unpack to the disk? Why can't you uncompress / unpack directly into memory? (Well, maybe this is an issue with Enigma actually)

For several large files that might apply, for games that use so many smaller files that would be true.  Better to have single file resources than thousands of small files scattered all over the place.

I guess it's more convenience than necessity it all depends on the developer.  Nowadays with blazzing fast memory and disk access, most people would really not notice any difference in random access considering some games pre-load those and would not affect gameplay otherwise.

As far as compression, I don't mind my resource not be compressed, but if I use many I would encrypt and store them together.  If there was a way to binary read from files starting at pos X to end pos, store that into a variable or a buffer and add from a buffer, that would skip having to READ / WRITE / RE-READ, instead it would be READ,you would skip write and re-read.

Example.

SCENERY.RES

binary read from pos 10000 to 25000
storing into a buffer
add background image from stored buffer
or add sprite, video, sound, music, from buffer, etc.

So this would allow direct to memory reading.  Imagine
the disk access you would save (writing back + re-reading) when talking about large resource file, and big games the speed increase would be interesting.

From what I was told game maker has some form of dynamic handling, but I think it is shitty at best, I want to be able to handle my resources the way I want them and not the way they tell me to !

Don't call our games shit unless you have the balls to prove you can barely cough up something remotely half as decent. Easier said than done. if youre so badass prove you are instead of throwing seriously annoying cry baby rants.Until you do this, I have no possible means to take you seriously. Just a thought.

How can he talk about our games when there aren't any ?

1) As far as I know you haven't even released a playable version of your game

2) I haven't posted any screenshots nor game yet.

But he's probably right, mine will probably not be up to his expectations at first 

LOL !

On the GMC he would be eaten alive !   

Quote from: Robert B Colton on January 25, 2014, 07:26:35 pm

Actually, it is much more, this is a full graphics abstraction layer, which means we could remove all of our graphics systems and have all of it just GLES, but it can run in D3D9 and D3D11 mode. So this is exactly why Studio does not allow you to choose your graphics system. I have permission from Josh to implement it, but I am having a bit of trouble building it. This would also mean OpenGL framebuffers would work for people with shitty PC's like polygonz by use of the EGL_ANGLE_direct3d_surface extension.

What the bloody fuck do you care about people's shitty PCs

Do the new next generation games worry ? NO.  you don't have a PC up to par you can't run the fucking game, simple as that.

Actually you are clueless and wrong ! Not everyone has the luxury to have the latest hardware, and game companies HAVE to care, otherwise they are losing money.  That's why you have the flexibility of adjusting game settings in most games, texture quality / visuals etc from low end to ultra settings. There are 2 requirements, minimum requirements and recommended ones, some games are ahead and even with latest hardware you might barely get decent performance but playable, many games push the ilmits but allow you tweak your settings based on your system.

So software companies have to care !

lol - how many people do you think still use DirectX9 cards.

Not everyone updates their GPU every year or twice a year.

I am not sure I was reading it specifically the other day someone threatening them and they refused the refund.
A google search turns up this, but this aint what I was reading.
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=588680&page=3
https://www.google.com/#q=game+maker+studio+false+advertising

ok that's another issue early on when they announced they would charge $299 for the YYC (for non master collection users).

The confusion started when people were reading their wiki / roadmap and seeing the LLVM mentioned as a feature of 1.2.  In reality the YYC compile was never meant to be a feature of 1.2 per se, but a new EXPORT to be introduced in 1.2. 

Now we all know from the beginning that YoYo mention they would charge for separate export modules for Pro users, and Master Collection users would get all future exports free (of course for 1.x most likely).

People purchased the software when YYC did not exist, so they got exactly what they paid for at the time and so no company is obligated to release new features.

There would clearly be no case if someone sued YoYo over the YYC. it is not an essential part of GM:S, MAJORITY of people will never need them as it is really meant for CPU intensive games, this is where you will see the biggest gains.  So is it a case of false advertising ?  They never announced it would be free.  They sneakily "marketed" it as part of 1.2, instead of mentioning beforehand it would be an export......(marketing 101, most companies do the exact same thing) and it's not illegal

Interesting and highly disturbing if true.  I would think that there is a whole process before games get featured.

If I'm not mistaken, they have internal tools they use to scan the EXE and they can determine if a legit or cracked version was used along with other key info embedded in the exe.
In other words they would know if the EXE was made from GM or not using key info inside the EXE.

I highly doubt they would blindly just run the EXE and place it in the showcase.  If that is the case that would be a good case for misrepresentation.  The whole idea is to showcase games made with GM, not with other tools.

It's strange that you mention these platforms because I heard allegedly that some console support will come to GM:S, and these might be the alleged platforms

So who knows maybe a GM made game that was ported to other platforms with their help ? internally ? Who knows.
Just thinking out loud.

The fallback would be big on YoYo if it is proven that this was not made with GM.

As far as the Squirrel, I am sure they are referring to the Wii.......In fact I'd bet my money on it.

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Thanks, but what I actually need is a direct text entry with cursor, no boxes whatsoever and no dialog boxes.  I would like to handle my own text input area and just have the text input start at whatever area of the room that I point it to.

Both of my examples and the Robert's example already did that. You should probably check them out before posting a reply.

lol !  Yeah I saw a rectangle there that's why.

Anyhow thanks a lot to everyone, appreciate it ! You have a solution to everything,