ENIGMA Development Environment

Looks interesting. If by "name conflicts" you mean resources having the same name, then that is something that should be fixed in the game itself. So just by renaming stuff in the source. And timelines are usually rarely used, but I guess someone should add them, so I guess its you Josh.

I will check the game when I have the time (from screenshots it looks good), but I can't find the source. The link on the page you posted has a compiled version (though the .exe is 17mb or something, so there could sadly be hundreds of resources.

Edit: Also, someone should maybe post in that forum just so they know this could also be an option. Now they want to use Mint and Java...

Lemon, semicolons don't matter. They are optional in both GML and EDL.
It does seem you have problem with libcompileEGMf.so, but I don't know how to fix it as I use windows.

Soo parser?

For the record, I never got FFI to work (so dll functions in general). The one bundles with ENIGMA was also out of date by a year or two. I mentioned that at the forum some time ago, but I don't think anyone noticed.

If you are talking about your IDE, then you would have to write your own version of Enigma.jar that basically gives information to ENIGMA (resources, code etc.). ENIGMA then does the rest.

edit: In theory you could just make the IDE that can save/load GM or ENIGMA project files and then you could think of getting it to work with ENIGMA.

Aaa, it's their roadmap. I though it was ours.

I sure don't know how to optimize OpenGL, but I believe some functions could double their performance.

Well the problem is in the idea of draw event actually. In modern games and serious 3D (be it OpenGL or DirectX) everything is usually loaded into vertex arrays and batches for faster drawing. That can improve drawing speed several orders of magnitude. The problem is that in GM and ENIGMA you can't really do that. You can add functions (I once did for VBO, but didn't commit) so users can do that themselves, but its not really possible to do that automatically. Maybe only for object sprites that are predetermined. In draw event everything can change because of some variables. That means you cannot batch the whole draw event of an object and then re-render it all the time. You could batch them every draw event (like every frame), but I am not sure that would create such a massive boost. Like its done with 3D models in GM and ENIGMA. You create them, add vertexes and then draw them. When you draw them you gain massive speed boost because they are already on GPU and are not changed. When you add per-vertex software based modification the it gets slow. I am no professional either, so I am not sure how actually things like animations work in big commercial games, but these are things I have noticed.
For example, I remember watching a video from a guy who made physics engine for Diablo3. He mentioned that the whole shattered object that has many physical pieces is drawn with only 1 draw call. And I am not sure how that works without remaking the model all the time.

Now let's say someone like me who is a so/so experienced C++ programmer and really experience .net framework programmer came along and want to write a basic editor for your, I guess I'll call ENIGMA a wrapper, cause it really is not a GM Augmentation it is kind of it's little thing from what I can see you guys have put extensive work into it. Would you guys officially support my Open Source IDE that is built ontop of your compiler, since I do not even think lateral GM is even being made anymore.

ENIGMA is both an engine and a parser which is actually called by a plugin for LGM. It can probably be hooked in anywhere. You actually don't need LGM to compile a game. You can do that trough the console. Some java is needed in this case because ENIGMA doesn't load sources files (gm6, gmk, egm etc.), but only parses it and the compiles it. The looks can be changed, the default Java one is the ugly blue. Sadly, there is no dropdown list or something in LGM to actually do that. And yes, it is worked on. All of LGM is functional as far as I know and the only buggy thing is the code editor that was never actually finished.
So if you have an IDE that is somehow better, then you can share with it here and probably others will help to hook it up with ENIGMA.

P.s. I hope I didn't lie about the LGM/ENIGMA relationship. I still tend to confuse all that.