Testing the Sprite Editor
As you probably know we are actively working on version 8.0 of Game Maker. One of the major changes will be that sprites and background with alpha-transparency (like in PNG files) are supported throughout the maker program. This will in particular included an extended sprite editor and a completely rewritten image editor.
You can now test a preliminary version of the sprite and image editor and provide us with bug reports and feedback. Please note that this is only meant for testing. Read the provided Readme document for more information. Don’t report your bugs and suggestions here! Send them by email, as indicated in the Readme file.
You can download the test version of the sprite editor here: Test Image Editor
Please note that no release date for Game Maker 8.0 has been set and that is will definitely take a couple of months before a beta version will become available. Don’t ask us about it or about other features at the moment. There will be ample opportunities for this in the future.
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April 13th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Cool! Downloading…
April 13th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I has some nice features.. like the glow. But it seems rather weird that the eraser uses alpha tranparentcy when the pencil doesn’t..
April 13th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Its okay, a little hard to use though. Is there a help document to it?
April 13th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Wow, very nice and much more advanced. I really like it I’m just not used to it yet (the button placements).
April 13th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
The PNG support makes it awsome alone.
But the new features are really nice(glow, shadow and skew are great). I look forward to using those in my games
April 13th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Awesome, that editor is really nice and way better than the current one. I’ve been using other image editors in order to create games/etc… with game maker but now I guess the included image editor will be the one I’ll use as there’s most of the features I want
Congratulations to all of you guys at yoyogames!
April 13th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
This is what GM has needed for the past 6 years. Thank you for finally implementing it
April 13th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
[...] Overmars has released a “preliminary version” of the sprite and image editors which will be included in Game [...]
April 14th, 2009 at 12:13 am
This is the thing that I’ve been waiting for! I don’t even care about the extra features. I just love that Game Maker finally has PNG support!
-Luis
April 14th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Nice! Great to see this!
-Elmernite
April 14th, 2009 at 12:25 am
It’s looking fantastic!
April 14th, 2009 at 1:33 am
This is epic, keep up the great work. So far I have had no problems.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:24 am
yeah, they said not to ask about features, but I am always waiting for a layer editor like in RPG Maker. I am sick of putting characters in a special combination to have him pass on top of an object and below an object.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:59 am
I noticed a few bugs, but otherwise very cool!
April 14th, 2009 at 6:27 am
cool and sweet and newer functions and the skewing helps make my iso tiles making easier and ISO platforms etc and ISO games and maybe with layers and all for ISO characters this might just work.
Thnx soo much Mark Overmarrs I will treasure this image editor.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:27 am
oops one r in Overmars my mistake.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:32 am
version 0.7 for image editor wow, it’s cool already I can’t wait to see what it can do next it’s soo awesome except for one minor bug I found w8 i know where to report this 2 now.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:04 am
@x_rus_x
GameMaker already has layers.
Every object/tileset can change it’s layer by changing it’s “depth” value (for objects) and “layer” value (for tiles). You have unlimited number of layers!
If you mean layers in the sprite editor (judging by your post, you don’t), they aren’t really needed that much.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:06 am
@nikechure
Multiple layers in the sprite editor would come in handy for animating seperate ‘objects’ within the sprite. Now I’m always constructing layered in an external image editor (like Paint.NET) and copy pasting each frame in the sprite editor.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I Like it alot, looks great as far as I can tell.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:31 am
yer i just downloaded this its very good. still testing things out.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Very Awesome !!
that really great improvements for game maker, although I’m concern about collisions with alpha channel how would be like!?
April 14th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
The thing that bothers me is whenever you draw something that is anti-aliased, and have replace marked instead of blend, it leaves noise all around the object you are drawing (especially obvious with the circle).
I think this would be remedied if there was a situation in which the anti-aliased pixels only replace the pixel below if their alpha value is higher than that below them.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
@Joerdgs
Oh, I know just how incredibly handy layers are.
I just think that GM doesn’t really need it that much. Plus, we were told not to post suggestions here.
April 15th, 2009 at 3:40 am
I think the eraser and drawing tool should show their exact size. Otherwise, great update!
Most happy about:
~Multiple Undos
~Unlimited zoom
April 15th, 2009 at 4:09 am
This is very handy. Thanks to the zoom, I can now get the pixel precision I want and zoom out to preview quickly. The dragging, what I use most, is much improved.
I think that there’s finally a use for the ‘external image editor’ option in Game Maker. Well, until GM8 comes out.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:09 am
This is really good. When I use the selection tool, I can’t go back over something i have already selected.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:46 am
@Sharik!
Thats what it is called!
Yes, I am so gonna use that!
but I don’t know if the game application it’s self will support the .png files.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
This thing is really cool, I just barely downloaded it and already I can see some things that would be handy in Game Maker!
I am not all that familiar with alpha channels and stuff, however I did find something I can understand wonderfully. The tolerence bar is wonderful!! I’ve always hated how the fill tool only gets the exact color and leaves little pixels behind, and the tolerance feature lets the fill tool work on similar colors to the color you’re filling on! I’m pretty sure that this feature is found in other image editors besides paint, but the fact that it’s going to appear in GM8 gets me really excited!
April 15th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
prinsu-kun:
There will probably be a value you can set that decides the minimum transparency for a collision.
April 16th, 2009 at 4:01 am
You know people know if the program is made with GM and it freezes after 4 hours, I know a way of finding if something was programmed if you notice it loads faster than a GM application or also sometimes takes half a minute after loosing focus and then to regain focus and get back on track and fully functioning to do it’s job but personally if both errors could be erased and like that which I will make possible, then that would mean a world of difference.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:42 am
awesome.espicaly the glow looking forword to game maker 8!if some one knows when it’s gona come out
April 16th, 2009 at 9:30 am
“if some one knows when it’s gona come out”
Read the last paragraph of Mark’s post.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Bug! Rotation Sequence bad sprite rotating sprites.Show in Rotation Sequence: http://img27.imageshack.us/my.php?image=testingthespriteeditors.png
April 16th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
“I think the eraser and drawing tool should show their exact size.”
“Bug!”
“DON’T REPORT YOUR BUGS AND SUGGESTIONS HERE!”
April 17th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Wow! This is a big improvement from GM 7. I like how it doesn’t look anything like Microsoft Paint!
April 17th, 2009 at 7:48 am
yeah true that to but one question, do they ever look at the bugs reported and all that and fix them!!!? or are they currently busy right now and working on something in the project first?. What is more important that first or removing bugs and then moving on to the next thing and making sure nothing has a bug in it or a single error?.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Incredible! Will I be able to have Pro edition on 8.0 if I have it on 7.0? Or will I have to buy it again?
April 18th, 2009 at 1:52 am
Could there be drag and drop actions to make the image glow or outline for the objects?
April 18th, 2009 at 4:08 am
possibly who knows and if not i’ll make one with GM’s new functions.
April 18th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
i wish there was an option that would make that image blend but inverted so you draw an ellipse with that option and background that ellipse is on looks inverted
April 19th, 2009 at 7:03 am
if the background is transparent you cant make a circle and fill it,it will fill al the image.you cant make any form and fill it because it will fil al the image.But this happends only with transparent background. This is the only bug i detected.i hope that this wil be fixed.
April 19th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
It won’t be if you don’t report bugs the way you were told to.
Why is it so hard to follow a few simple directions?
April 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
I like, except…
..that it doesn’t have is you can change one color to another
..it should have different shapes for drawing then just a circle
..resizable grid
But those will probably be added.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:56 am
I am here to help and with my gml learning and help from gmgex I will soon be just as good and eventually get this product helped and make both the products booming even GM will have all we want and need and so will the handy helpful dock, Oh $pecter and gmgex will be so pleased.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
OMG.Only downside is that n00bs can make sprites effortlessey without having to learn anything.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Very nice editor. I always thought that the buttonize effect was missing in GM7.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:37 am
Wow! Its Great! A very important thing I think you should add is the ability to use the paint bucket to add textures.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:51 am
I kinda miss being able to type in a number for the blur, now you can only blur it 3,6,or 9
April 21st, 2009 at 3:00 am
also I would recomend making it posible to undo at least 3 times, it gets so anoying, mabey an undo, and redo button
April 21st, 2009 at 4:40 am
Whenever i draw some thing with the pencil and try to fill it it just fills the entire screen on 0.7
April 21st, 2009 at 4:42 am
where do we email to?
April 21st, 2009 at 6:15 am
But I did report the bugs.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:58 am
“where do we email to?”
“Send them by email, as indicated in the *Readme file*.”
The Readme is only three paragraphs long. It’s not hard to find.
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I find the same thing as zzwerty.
Maybe have a setting so that you can change to NO TOLERANCE (It doesn’t fill in diagonal)
Also you could add a line
Anyways, I LOVE the alpha channel. It’s really cool, and really speeds things up =D
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
it wont let me downoad
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:41 am
Here’s an idea for 8.0. with tiles, (or even other things too!) you could be able to click and drag, making a large square of tiles with ease, rather than going through one by one and clicking each square
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm
the image editor is great aside from the previous mentioned and reported errors(bugs what ever you call them) but still, now well I am impressed but, one thing Oh darn it how amazing I’ll have my analog clock for my dock ending up being 96 x 96 pixels and having it’s numbers in line I do so still hope that they keep that feature in GM8.0 to use xscale and yscale so i can halve the analog clock down to 48 by 48 so it won’t be too big to fit on the panel for the dock, but using my xscale=0.5 yscale=0.5 technique I should be able to pull a tight squeeze I’ll go test with a non .png image in the room that size in a different project. This might work but it would be tough, perhaps a function for GM to stretch the sprite to a specific size. Second thoughts a tight squeeze in that spare gap by that logo with good positioning might just work.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Although barely 4 pixels above the bin object might be the ticket out of here, for placing it correctly, also 4 pixels to the left of the ‘ THE HAWK’S DOCK ‘ Logo, directing to the MR.SMES! Website.
April 24th, 2009 at 5:39 am
could be a close trim but may be just, I might have a ace or 2 up my sleeves.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
This is what an update should be like; the alpha channel functionality is excellent, and the demo is actually rather useful in its own right as a PNG editor,but what I’d really like to see is some sort of sprite “ghosting” function (i.e the ability to see previous subimages; it would make animation a lot easier). Plus, the preset morph animation is really just a crossfade and hence rather cheap.
April 25th, 2009 at 2:03 am
what ever it is still rather neat instead of whining show us something better you can make if you can, no PWN intended but I highly doubt you could make a image editor.
April 25th, 2009 at 10:50 am
i tried it, but its really hard to use
can you make it as easy to use as the 1 from 7?
April 25th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
really nice guys! keep it up!
[offtopic] when is the next comp going to be announced.[/offftopic]
April 25th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
VERY nice.
Much better than the current system.
April 26th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
You probably won’t believe me but http://www.kwalty.com works on google chrome as well as all other browsers just glad I closed it when I did.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
I won’t have the opportunity to download this beta sprite editor, but I do have one comment. It absolutely *must* contain a feature that lets you “wrap” pixels drawn on one side of the image to the other. Thus making the creation of tiled textures much quicker.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:53 am
So, I guess when you send bugs and suggestions to the email address you don’t get a reply. That’s a little odd. It makes me feel like my input was useless.
And I know I didn’t send it to the wrong address. So that isn’t the issue.
Hope all is going well.
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Hi guys, just wondering: are there any planned revisions of the Game Maker Language? I feel it is very under powered for what Game Maker has expanded to. I think a dynamic OOP approach would be very appropriate, seeing as GM already has dynamic typing. As well, I think it’d be better for everyone if the Game Maker source file wasnt merely tacked onto the exe, but compiled into a bytecode representation first (as I understand it, you guys are currently using slow Abstract Syntax Trees)
May 4th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Is there a mac version?
May 6th, 2009 at 1:05 am
if there is a windows version I am sure there will be one for mac sooner or l8r.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:18 am
is there ever going to be another contest?
May 8th, 2009 at 10:38 am
If you dont like the editor, are there a feature who let you use the old one?
May 14th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I totally love this much better than the old one.
Much better effects, like the glow and skew effect.
Also, the resizing system has a better quality when I resize than GM&’s resizing, even when I set it to poor.
I’m also glad I didn’t find any glitches.