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[J-Crew]

I want to have my game load with no sprites or music included at the beginning. But I want them to load as they are needed in the game. I believe the syntax for adding a sprite would be:

sprite_add(fname,imgnumb,precise,transparent,smooth,prelo
ad,xorig,yorig)

And for music:

sound_add(fname,kind,preload)

However, the problem I'm getting is with the first argument "fname". I don't really know what to put here to read my files. I have the files in the same folder as the game. Do I need to but an exact filename/path? Or does it have something to do with Including files using Global Game Settings?

Edited by J-Crew, 23 February 2008 - 12:45 PM.

[wiredbomb0]

well, it would probably (i think) to organize them a bit better. so music goes in a Music folder, sprites in a Sprite etc.

for the argument fname, you need to:

1(if the file is in the same place as the .exe): "music1.mp3"
2(if the file is in a folder): "Music/music1.mp3"

that should work!

[J-Crew]

well, it would probably (i think) to organize them a bit better. so music goes in a Music folder, sprites in a Sprite etc.

for the argument fname, you need to:

1(if the file is in the same place as the .exe): "music1.mp3"
2(if the file is in a folder): "Music/music1.mp3"

that should work!

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Thanks alot. I'll give that a try! I got it to read it, and I assigned the values to a global variable to test and they worked. But is there a way to assign them to a sprite constant rather than a global variable, so that I can use them like a normal sprite?

Edited by J-Crew, 23 February 2008 - 01:11 PM.

[ragarnak]

But is there a way to assign them to a sprite constant rather than a global variable, so that I can use them like a normal sprite?

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Try this :

globalvar spr_MySprite;
spr_MySprite = sprite_add("spritefile.bin", 1, true, true, false, false, 0,0)

You can now use the "spr_MySprite" like you would use a sprite-resource name, though with two restrictions : they won't be selectable in drag-and-drop commands (as those only look in the resource-tree at the left), and the variable is not read-only (like resource names are).

Hope that helps.

Edited by ragarnak, 23 February 2008 - 01:53 PM.

[J-Crew]

But is there a way to assign them to a sprite constant rather than a global variable, so that I can use them like a normal sprite?

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Try this :

globalvar spr_MySprite;
spr_MySprite = sprite_add("spritefile.bin", 1, true, true, false, false, 0,0)

You can now use the "spr_MySprite" like you would use a sprite-resource name, though with two restrictions : they won't be selectable in drag-and-drop commands (as those only look in the resource-tree at the left), and the variable is not read-only (like resource names are).

Hope that helps.

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Yeah that's about what I was doing. You just made it simpler. Thanks alot for the help. I think I've got this down pretty good.

[ragarnak]

Thanks alot for the help.

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