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i made a way to change the controls of my game

i want the game to show the current keys something like
UP: W
DOWN: S
LEFT: A
RIGHT: D

right now the game shows
UP: 84
DOWN: 83
LEFT: 65
RIGHT: 68

i could just use chr() but that returns nothing with keys like the arrow keys, ctrl, alt, etc.

how could i do that

hi again

now i wanted to change the shape of my window

i already checked "dont draw a border in windowed mode" but no matter what i do, the game keeps being a rectangle

if i uncheck the "draw a background color" it draws black, how do i make that color transparent

hi guys

i'm trying to reduce lag on my mmo but no matter how hard i try i always get a lot of lag, even on a local network

i tried to send the less amount of packets possible this is what i got (the game has a 8-way movement system)

step event

if global.pause=false
if global.battle=false
if global.chatting=false{
 if keyboard_check(global.k_up){
  dv=1;
 }else if keyboard_check(global.k_down){
  dv=2;
 }else{
  dv=0;
 }


 if keyboard_check(global.k_left){
  dh=10;
 }else if keyboard_check(global.k_right){
  dh=20;
 }else{
  dh=0;
 }
 
}

dir=dv+dh

if dirtemp != dir{ //if button conbination changes
dirtemp = dir;
stat=1
  switch(dir){
  case 0: d=0; //----stop----
  case 1: d=1; //----move up----
  case 2: d=2; //----move down----
  case 10: d=3; //----move left----
  case 11: d=4; //----move up-left----
  case 12: d=5; //----move down-left----
  case 20: d=6; //----move right----
  case 21: d=7; //----move up-right----
  case 22: d=8; //----move down-right----
 }
 clearbuffer();;
 writebyte(M_MOVE);
 writeshort(x);
 writeshort(y); //refresh position
 writebyte(d) //move direction
 sendmessage(global.socket);
}

so this code uses 6 bytes and only send packets when you press or release buttons

when i test on localhost it runs great but even on a local network it gets laggy

any suggestions?

hi, im currently doing an MMO

i made a launcher that is an autoupdater, you can also change some option on it
just now is missing the function to launch the game

theres a way to force the game to be launched through the laucher?
like sending variables from a game to another?

something like if i run game.exe instead of the launcher i get an error message saying "please use the launcher"

i'm trying to pack some sprite and scripts (gmspr and gml) into a only file for some kind of downloadable content for my game (new characters, new levels)

what is the best way to do it?

theres ay way to add them to game maker without extracting them?

i dont care about compression since the files are small enough, but maybe i could use some crypting