DS Game Maker 4.6

[AlceX]

It isn't that bad. The views helped me with me Santa game.

[Eldude]

It isn't that bad. The views helped me with me Santa game.

Even thou you won, the game was terrible.

[AlceX]

What did you not like about it?

[metalkakkarot]

you should do an 'easter' competition

[jpoopdog]

Just make the views system optional as a checkbox in game options like the gh or load save functions.

Otherwise a simple activate/deactivate views action would be alright.

No need to scrap anything

[godslayer500]

I found another bug: If you use set screen brightness and set the amount higher or lower as 0 it works, but if you change room it go back to normal (0).

[AlceX]

I don't think it's a bug. It's just the way it works, I guess.

[godslayer500]

In 4.5 did it still work when you changed room. So I just downloaded 4.5 and I'm going to wait till all bugs are out of 4.6.

[Metatarsals]

Any chance the palette sharing can be controlled/fixed/switched off?
This has become a growing problem on most projects as the number of sprites rise. If not, any way I can get a link to an earlier version of DSGM that did not include this?
I am aware of Eldude's suggestion of every other sprite in the strip being a solid colour but this is highly inefficient use of graphics and many of my sprite strips for characters etc are over 30 sprites long

[godslayer500]

Here's a link to download all other versions: http://www.dsgamemaker.com/downloads/

[Eldude]

I am aware of Eldude's suggestion of every other sprite in the strip being a solid colour

This is not what I said.

Every second sprite resource.
So sprite 1 is a strip with 30 frames etc.
Sprite 2 is just a sprite with 1 colour.
Sprite 3 is a strip again
Sprite 4 is 1 solid colour.

[Metatarsals]

Still awkward, but so much less so! Hope something is done about this in a not-so-distant release. Thanks Eldude, and pardon my misunderstanding

[Eldude]

This palette sharing was introduced so that you could load in 32 sprites instead of 16.....
With the strips I make I barley ever load more than 5. Any more than that and I am being lazy and not adding a sprite to a strip.

[James]

Guys, we do not have pallet sharing any more.

I believe I explained somewhere that there is now a bulk head color system like on Titanic.

Once there is more than 256 colors the next pallet is used.

[Head900]

Doess this new pallette idea come with the original release of DSGM 4.6 or have you just done it? (Because I'm wondering whether I should redownload/install it?)