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[Dark-Hylian]

Dark-Hylian

[Help needed] How to create a screen overlay fro...

Using the bottom right image, the cloud overlay, used in Minish Cap, how would one create an overlay like in the game, where the clouds drift slowly over the screen? Or, would there be any easier ways, or other methods that anyone else prefers? If so, I would appreciate your input, as it would help a lot. If anyone has any suggestions or answers, I should be glad to hear them.

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[Theforeshadower]

Theforeshadower

Re: [Help needed] How to create a screen overlay...

The most simple of ways(but will give you some graphical issues) is setting one up as one of the 8 backgrounds in a room for Game Maker.  You can apply scrolling in both horizontal and vertical.  However, the only way to get the backgrounds to display is to select the "front" option.  This will put the background in front of EVERYTHING.  Presents a problem for menus and HUDs.

You could also use the background functions found in the GM help file.
Since GM starts backgrounds and tiles in room editing at layer 1000000, simply set the background to a lower number layer such as 999999 for simplicity reasons.

Draw it and in a step event for a controller object, just add/subtract x and y variables according to how fast you want it to scroll.

That is what I can remember.  Have not reinstalled GM7 yet so I can't bee 100% sure.

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[Ventlo]

Ventlo

Re: [Help needed] How to create a screen overlay...

When you are making it as a sprite, you have to set the Opacity lower
making the you able to see the character through your overlay.

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[ptd]

ptd

Re: [Help needed] How to create a screen overlay...

Make an object with -9999 (or whatever puts it under the HUD and above everything else) depth. In the draw event, use draw_sprite_tiled_ext to draw the overlay sprite tiled with a low opacity, and in the step event you can do x-=1; y-=1;, however fast/slow and in whatever direction you want the clouds to drift.

I'm not sure if this'd be an issue, but if having an object travel further and further outside the room uses up an exponential amount of memory, just have something like "if x<128(or whatever the width of the overlay is){x=0}" at the end of the step event's code, and do the same with y and the overlay's height.

[DJvenom]

DJvenom

Re: [Help needed] How to create a screen overlay...

draw_set_blend_mode(bm_add)
draw_background_ext(overlay_fog,x,y,1,1,0,c_white,0.5)
draw_set_blend_mode(bm_normal)

^^ in draw event if you have regged version ^^

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[Ventlo]

Ventlo

Re: [Help needed] How to create a screen overlay...

draw_set_blend_mode(bm_add)
draw_background_ext(overlay_fog,x,y,1,1,0,c_white,0.5)
draw_set_blend_mode(bm_normal)

^^ in draw event if you have regged version ^^

Make an object with -9999 (or whatever puts it under the HUD and above everything else) depth. In the draw event, use draw_sprite_tiled_ext to draw the overlay sprite tiled with a low opacity, and in the step event you can do x-=1; y-=1;, however fast/slow and in whatever direction you want the clouds to drift.

I'm not sure if this'd be an issue, but if having an object travel further and further outside the room uses up an exponential amount of memory, just have something like "if x<128(or whatever the width of the overlay is){x=0}" at the end of the step event's code, and do the same with y and the overlay's height.

Using the bottom right image, the cloud overlay, used in Minish Cap, how would one create an overlay like in the game, where the clouds drift slowly over the screen? Or, would there be any easier ways, or other methods that anyone else prefers? If so, I would appreciate your input, as it would help a lot. If anyone has any suggestions or answers, I should be glad to hear them.

Perfect!:

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