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Select sprite center origin
« on: February 27, 2020, 11:08:53 AM »
Title explains itself.
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2020, 02:45:21 PM »
I know about this, but I never really understood it. What does it do, what is it for?
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2020, 08:32:26 PM »
Quote from: Christian Game Maker on February 27, 2020, 02:45:21 PM
I know about this, but I never really understood it. What does it do, what is it for?
The coordinates of the object are the coordinates of a point, normally the object left corner, and Antikore wants the object center
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2020, 09:43:29 PM »
That doesn't help well.
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2020, 06:57:20 AM »
In truth, it helps with custom projectiles with sprites as they rotate very bad in most cases.

Helps centering the rotation of an sprite.
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2020, 04:05:53 PM »
Oh! I understand!
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2020, 04:57:46 AM »
Custom projectile sprites should have their origin in the middle. Is this not the case?
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2020, 05:06:45 AM »
If that's the case, then why does GMS2 allow you to change it from the center, to something else? I can see how this can help with certain visual aspects.
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2020, 06:05:19 AM »
Quote from: Christian Game Maker on May 11, 2020, 05:06:45 AM
If that's the case, then why does GMS2 allow you to change it from the center, to something else? I can see how this can help with certain visual aspects.


Sometimes in Game Maker you don't want to rotate around the center point. Also, you may not want to flip a sprite across its center point. Or you may have a 32x32 grid in your room editor and you want to place things offset to the grid. You may want to adjust the origin so that you can place the x and y coordinates directly over something else and have it automatically shift to the right spot because of your origin offset.
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Re: Select sprite center origin
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2020, 04:31:36 PM »
Yeah, which would be useful in PB as well.
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