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EDIT : This is no longer being worked on, sorry...

Quite ambitious. But I must say you're not going to be able to go too far with Game Maker, at least not in the "hundreds of objects on screen" department. Trust me, I've already tried this in GM6 and even before 100 objects are onscreen the game will slow down.

Plus GM is an interpreted script game engine, which means half your processor time is wasted finding out what to do before even actually doing the operation. Game Maker is really best used as a learning tool, not for a serious project. (This is why the Delta Project is where it's at today - there is no way GM would ever be able to handle the DKCLB's absolutely massive feature list.)

Also in my opinion you need to have a way to deactivate off-screen objects or this won't get anywhere (since all objects in the level get processed by default, it will cause immense slowdown at some point).

Good luck, you'll need it.

Wish me luck, because its going to take me months, but it will be done much much quicker than DKCLB.

Serious Problem: DK will hop up and down if you hold down the jump key. Shouldn't be able to do that.

Also, his walk/run animation is just a bit too slow.

Also, please make a new post when you've updated with a new demo. Otherwise no one will notice!

EDIT: You know you can use the DKCRE v0.0.5.0 release for extracting sprite animations, right? [Warning though, extracting the sprite PNGs is slow and will take up at least 15MB so have some HDD space left, and be ready to wait.]

I got like 160GB free in my hard drive, so i have plenty.

*UPDATE*

There is a new demo out!

My demo engine sucked, i am going to make a more accurate engine soon.

Somtimes DK would get stuck in ground.

Please post the keyboard functions - I'm having a very hard time getting past the spikes (but I am impressed at seeing DK finally in a bramble level).

@ VideoViking - 'c' is jump and 'space' is run.

@ Markster - I'm not very familiar with GameMaker. From your first post I gathered that this project is a level editor. Is this going to be a stand alone application, or will it be designed to run within GameMaker somehow?

Issues:

• Sometimes DK is stuck in his jumping sprite when you land without moving.
• Sometimes when you jump while running DK is in his first idle sprite.
• DK jumps the same height no matter how long you hold down the jump key.
• Quite a few of the tiles are not lined up correctly.

Simion32 wrote:Also in my opinion you need to have a way to deactivate off-screen objects or this won't get anywhere (since all objects in the level get processed by default, it will cause immense slowdown at some point).

I was playing a custom DKC4 demo made with GameMaker at my cousins house. It is called "Donkey Kong Country 4 - The DK Bay" (The creator did a very good job with the controls). My cousins computer isn't a fast preforming one, yet I was still wondering why the game was lagging so badly. But when I entered the bonus levels, which were no less complicated than the main level, the game ran fine. What Simion wrote explains it, there were no off screen entities in the bonus levels for the game to unnecessarily 'display'. Simions suggestion is a must.

PipKong wrote:I was playing a custom DKC4 demo made with GameMaker at my cousins house. It is called "Donkey Kong Country 4 - The DK Bay" (The creator did a very good job with the controls).

You know, there's a topic in this forum section (posted by the creator himself) for that very game.

Oh, thanks. I was directed to the download at the YoYoGames website by Google. I also saw the DKC4 thread before but I didn't make the connection until now.

PipKong wrote:I was playing a custom DKC4 demo made with GameMaker at my cousins house. It is called "Donkey Kong Country 4 - The DK Bay" (The creator did a very good job with the controls). My cousins computer isn't a fast preforming one, yet I was still wondering why the game was lagging so badly. But when I entered the bonus levels, which were no less complicated than the main level, the game ran fine. What Simion wrote explains it, there were no off screen entities in the bonus levels for the game to unnecessarily 'display'. Simions suggestion is a must.

Its true. If you use game maker, use deactivating or it WILL lag. Do it to begin with before there is too much to change. I have gotten to the point where I must split up a level into 2 rooms in order for it to run faster. It may not look as good but its neccessary due to lag.

Does this work with DKC2 and 3 or is it just for the first one?

CliveKoopa wrote:Does this work with DKC2 and 3 or is it just for the first one?

The first one, but there will be stuff from DKC2 and 3.

Donkey Kong Country Game Maker has been CANCELED, there is already a good level editor being made, and thats Simion32's DKC Level Builder, sorry...

Simion32 says: Okeydokey, locked the thread since topic is now useless.