needing help with this weird scaling issue. | GameMaker | Page 1

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 1:37 AM

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hey so i'm making a game and my character is like a rhombus, when running it starts to look weird, is it a graphic problem on my side or is there a setting i could tick on to get rid of this. if not please give me some pixel art tips so my artist in the dev team could avoid this 🙏 heres video for what i mean.

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 4:27 AM

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solar tapir hey so i'm making a game and my character is like a rhombus, when running it sta...

Could you explain the problem specifically? I'm don't really understand what's wrong with the footage.

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 4:28 AM

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i'll record a close up

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so you can see here the sharp edges of my character and the ramp looks weird

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this had been a problem before and after i added in camera

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just try looking closely into the player asset and you'll see

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if not then it must be something with my laptop graphics

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 4:35 AM

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I believe that has something to do with sub pixels

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It's basically the game trying to draw a pixel in an inbetween so it kinda improvises

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 4:36 AM

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oh

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so it's just a sprite issue?

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 4:37 AM

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Not really, moreso a camera thing

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 4:38 AM

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don't really think so

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removed the camera out of the room and when running i still get the same problem

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or if you mean a different type of camera setting

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 4:41 AM

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Naw like how the scene gets rendered and stuff

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 4:42 AM

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oh

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is there like a simple fix to that?

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or anything?

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 4:53 AM

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You could try a smaller camera resolution?

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 4:53 AM

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hm

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 4:54 AM

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Like use a camera/view resolution that scales perfectly with the size of the sprites?

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 4:55 AM

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ok i'll try that

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wouldn't this affect the window size?

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or is that viewport

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 4:59 AM

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Viewport is just the scaling of the camera view

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 4:59 AM

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hm

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update: it starts to look good

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but would the problem come back if i scale the sprites down?

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 5:02 AM

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Well yeah if you scale the sprites down it gets drawn imperfectly since it makes the drawing thing have to draw a lot of in between pixels

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 5:03 AM

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so then i just have to be stuck with my sprites being huge?

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like i'll see if my friend could fix the sprite

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 5:04 AM

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Was your viewport scaled in respect to the camera size?

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 5:04 AM

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before changing the camera yes

wanton dew Jul 11, 2024, 5:05 AM

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Y'okay just making sure

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 5:05 AM

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yea

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well i'll see if i can get my friend to fix the sprite

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and then after that we're good

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thanks for helping tho

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and thank you for the gamemaker admins for blessing us with a help forum

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because if this didn't exist then my question would never be resolved 🥲

solar tapir Jul 11, 2024, 10:17 PM

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good news

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i finally found a fix

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i set my texture page in the graphic tab all the way down

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and when testing it works out great

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i could go up a bit for a better quaility

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actually

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it's this setting

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whoops!

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so uh

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yea

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little heads up this will smooth out a lot of things

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so

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#needing help with this weird scaling issue.