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[TheouAegis]

Much to my chagrin, after writing a room transition script that should have been flawless (except for maybe 1 step being misdrawn), I discovered that room transitions are executed at 30fps, even if both the previous room and the next room run at 60fps.

Does anyone know of a way to change this? Even if it means mucking around with a hex editor, I would really like to be able to set the room transition speed to 60fps so my room transition script can run the way it's meant to. Halving transition_steps makes the transition finish in the right amount of time, but the movement is less fluid. I want my transition to finish in the right amount of time with the fluid motion that I programmed into it.

Thanks if you can help.

[Yal]

Yup, set the variable transition_steps to something less than 80 (the default) to speed up all further room transitions.


EDIT: Damn, you're not a noob I could get cheap reputation from by helping.

I'm fairly sure Game Maker uses a set time for its transitions, so if you want more frames per transition step, you can't use the built-in function.

Idea:
- Take a surface screenshot of the current room
- Turn OFF automatic drawing with set_automatic_draw()
- Go to the next room
- Take a surface screenshot of the new room
- Run your transition script (and update the screen manually!) 60 times and sleep() 1/60 second between each time.
- Turn on automatic drawing again
- Free the two surfaces

Edited by Yal, 07 February 2012 - 08:39 AM.

[Tennx]

Actually Yal, I was searching for this problem and you gave me the correct answer:

transition_step = 80

But I have a correction: The larger value has transition_step, the longer is the transition. I managed to get a nice effect turning the transition_step to 300.
I leave the rest to the transition's behavior.

Edited by Tennx, 23 February 2012 - 03:32 AM.