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_Jaiden

Oct 21 2006, 07:07 AM

Here is the code I am using:

Create Event:

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joke = sprite_add("joke.bmp",1,false,false,false,true,0,0);
alarm[0] = 30;

Alarm 0 Event:

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draw_sprite_ext(joke,-1,16,96,0,0,0,c_white,1);

I also tried this in Alarm 0:

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draw_sprite_ext("joke",-1,16,96,0,0,0,c_white,1);

But nothing works. When I run it, I get the message "trying to draw non existing sprite".
Anybody who can help me?

Thanks,
- Jaiden

Him

Oct 21 2006, 07:22 AM

Everything you used (aside from the last one) works correctly as it should, assuming "joke.bmp" is in the working directory of the game. However, you are drawing this sprite once, when the alarm goes off, and when Game Maker is not refreshing the screen. You will never see the the image for the fraction of a second it is being drawn for, unless you call screen_refresh() in the alarm event after drawing the sprite or use draw_sprite_ext() in the Draw event.

Your last attempt:

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draw_sprite_ext("joke",-1,16,96,0,0,0,c_white,1);

Does not work, because a string cannot equal an index of a sprite.

Please note that you have both the horizontal and vertical image scale set to 0 in the draw_sprite_ext() function and therefor the image will be scaled to zero width and zero height.

_Jaiden

Oct 21 2006, 07:24 AM

ahh of course! thankyou for reminding me of that.
The silly mistakes I make...
PS: I also made a stupid mistake conserning png file extensions

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