converting GM 6.1 to GM 8 ?

Atom	converting GM 6.1 to GM 8 ? « on: November 07, 2010, 07:08:39 pm »
Reputation: +3/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 262	I'm currently using GM 6.1. If I am correct that does mean that a .exe created with this version will not work in vista or windows 7 and that using GM 8 would solve this. But as the engine has been done for a great part, I am wondering how much work it would be converting it. Is there someone who has a list regarding the changes of the build in functions and variables between GM 6.1 and GM8 ? I would prefer knowing what has changed so that I can see how much work converting will be, before I actually decide to start converting the engine of TLOZ:CR. Logged
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hawthorneluke	Re: converting GM 6.1 to GM 8 ? « Reply #1 on: November 09, 2010, 07:44:22 am »
笑い男 Reputation: +9/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 2124	Load the source into gm8, try and run it or whatever and you'll get any errors. Should just be ones where the code for drawing stuff has just changed a tiny bit, no big deal at all and easy to change. Logged
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DJvenom super-sage	Re: converting GM 6.1 to GM 8 ? « Reply #2 on: November 09, 2010, 07:52:00 am »
Colbydude was here. Reputation: +7/-0 Offline Gender: Posts: 2898	Yeah, GM is pretty savvy about unofficially supporting "outdated" functions like make_color(r,g,b) which is documented in the manual as needing to be make_color_rgb(r,g,b) so you're likely to only need to make minor edits to your game (most notable being that GM8 uses PNG's with native alpha rather than a "transparent color" so you may need to edit all of your sprites to conform to this new feature. Not 100% sure tho) Logged
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