Game Maker Help

[SuperTron]

How Do You Make Keyboard Controled Charaters?

[~xpr'd~]

Please read the tutorial. It's helpful.

[dlcs18]

I find it very surprising that you don't know how to program actions on key presses when you know how to program actions on mouse buttons.

But here's a pic:

[SuperTron]

OK But What Do We Use For The Controlled Move Part?

[dlcs18]

If you are talking about the action you use to make it move...
1. It's also shown in the above picture.
2. You should already know how to move something since I've seen it done in one of your earlier attempts at making a game.

[LittleZbot]

Open up object. Type in the name of the object. Use a sprite for it. Then press add event. select key press. select up. The add an event thingie that is MOVED FIXED. selct the up arrow, and set the speed. press OK, use the same concept for other keys. You are done.

[Blast!10]

Open up object. Type in the name of the object. Use a sprite for it. Then press add event. select key press. select up. The add an event thingie that is MOVED FIXED. selct the up arrow, and set the speed. press OK, use the same concept for other keys. You are done.

Keep in mind, LittleZbot, that if you want to make your games a little more professional, this makes a horrible movement engine. There are many other simple methods that behave better and allow for more features, such as diagonal movement, full 360-degree angle movement, platformers or even race car movement. All that can be easily done with Game Maker, no extensions needed and you don't even need the Pro version to use these ways.

For beginners, however, the way you suggested is good enough.

[LittleZbot]

Open up object. Type in the name of the object. Use a sprite for it. Then press add event. select key press. select up. The add an event thingie that is MOVED FIXED. selct the up arrow, and set the speed. press OK, use the same concept for other keys. You are done.

Keep in mind, LittleZbot, that if you want to make your games a little more professional, this makes a horrible movement engine. There are many other simple methods that behave better and allow for more features, such as diagonal movement, full 360-degree angle movement, platformers or even race car movement. All that can be easily done with Game Maker, no extensions needed and you don't even need the Pro version to use these ways.

For beginners, however, the way you suggested is good enough.

Question, question. HOW DO YOU DO THOSE THINGS?!!

[Blast!10]

There you go, four example engines. I'm not really sure if the race car one works with GM Lite, though, so disregard my last post.

[MyNameIsKooky]

Bump.

Can anyone give me a .gmk or at least a pointer on how to make Game Maker read and write to external save files? Like, when the file is read during gameplay, the game finds the coordinates of the character from addresses $00 and $01 of the file and places the character there?