MMF 2.5 Feature Requests

Alonso · December 6, 2013 at 4:59 AM

Hey! I've recently installed MMF 2.5 and my game seems to run perfectly well with it! I'm very happy with this.

1. Turn off skin + crosshair/highlight: The only issue I have with all the new great stuff is the skinned event editor. Is there a way that we could turn this off in the preferences, including the crosshair/highlight lines? I find it's about 30% slower to navigate around the editor, compared to the 2.0 version, and it'll definitely slow down productivity in the long run. Just an option to make the editor look like the one in 2.0.

2. Compile blank frames: an option in the storyboard editor (a tick?) that lets you select which frames you want for MMF to compile as "blank frames". That way, ticked frames just get replaced by empty frames, increasing compile speed for tests or for any other purpose.

3. Expression editor: remember line breaks - Another thing that would be really good to have is an expression editor that remembers linebreaks. If possible, it would be great if we were able to add comments with a // string. Therefore, code like this:

Quote

Left$(STRING, Abs(Len(STRING)*Min(0, Find(STRING, " [', 0)))+Max(0, Find(STRING, ' [', 0)))

...could look more readable like this:

Quote

Left$(STRING,
//'Delete' string if bracket is found
Abs(
Len(STRING)*Min(0, Find(STRING, " [', 0))
)
//Blah blah
+Max(0, Find(STRING, ' [', 0))
)

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4. Anchor point when resizing the frame -- Basically something like the way you can resize the canvas in any modern image editor: you're able to anchor 1 of 9 points to keep the content where you need it:
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Jeff · December 6, 2013 at 5:01 AM

Very good ideas and I also hope they can do number 1 in a future update.
I found it a little distracting and would love the option to turn it off.

Options are great! The more the better.

geothefaust · December 6, 2013 at 8:48 AM

I would sure love to see #3. Good idea. Posted it as an FR yet?

Conno · December 6, 2013 at 12:34 PM

In support of all of those suggestions, specially #3.

happygreenfrog · December 6, 2013 at 3:17 PM

Alonso, these are good ideas, especially option 3. I personally am the kind of person who needed the highlight+crosshair in the event editor, because it was a little more difficult to tell what action I was over before, so I can't say I would use the first one, and there is also the fact that the Mac version might not support turning it off, since the old interface relied heavily on Windows-specific interface code (if I remember correctly), but I guess there are people who would use it.

Danny · December 6, 2013 at 3:29 PM

Alonso, be sure to post these up in the BugTracker under the suggestions/features.

Alonso · December 6, 2013 at 6:37 PM

Wondering if anyone could change the forum topic name to "F2.5 feature requests", to make it more suitable. Thanks

I don't have access to the 2.5 bugtracker area, but ProdigyX was kind enough to post the suggestions there for me.

Pookasnooks · December 6, 2013 at 7:05 PM

I'm having troubles with PMO in 2.5, so I will probably stick with 2.0. But I still want to say that I really support #4.

Storsorgen · December 6, 2013 at 11:15 PM

I can't seem to find the option to change the "Tick" that marks an event in the event editor. Has this been changed? If so, this needs to be back!

Yos · December 6, 2013 at 11:37 PM

Another vote for number 3.
It would defiantly make life much easier.

ProdigyX · December 7, 2013 at 12:01 AM

Storsogen, it's built into the skin for CTF now. I am going to upload a quick explanation on Skins in the near future. Until then, you can go into the "Skins" folder in CTF and replace the "EE_CheckMark" to whatever you want the icon to be.

Tim · December 7, 2013 at 12:37 AM

+1 for number 3. I always add new lines while initially writing so I can understand but then can never understand it later because it is a large mess

Ls2 · December 7, 2013 at 3:55 AM

#3 is a very good idea!

Solgryn · December 7, 2013 at 12:33 PM

I always wanted a way to change the initial value of a variable in an instance of an object in the frame editor (So you have 2 of the same objects in the editor but they start with different alterable values, sort of like a level editor)
Right now you can only change it for all objects.

Is that a possibility?

Pookasnooks · December 7, 2013 at 2:40 PM

I am gonna suggest some features that Game Maker has that I think MMF should too.

- the ability to snap objects to a grid when placing them in the frame, and to define the size of the squares that make up said grid.
- the ability to make the background automatically scroll
- the possibility for paths to be curved.
- the ability to do things to paths such as flip them, mirror them, rotate them, etc. Perhaps in the multiple movements editor, you can clone a path and then flip it horizontally.

lh37 · December 7, 2013 at 3:00 PM

These sounds like good ideas, particularly #3.

I'd like to add a Please login to see this link.
Nothing wrong with the icons now, I just have other visual preferences

Zonacas · December 7, 2013 at 9:06 PM

I want a color replacement tool in picture editor like paint shop pro

turtle · December 8, 2013 at 7:25 AM

First, thanks for the great update, now we have physics as a base

Was porting over one of my pinball games from B2D flash to Android and I just couldn't get the collision right, I think it has something to do with the way it detects or outlines the shape of the first image. Would like to suggest if we can have a fourth option... by entering our own coordinates under the collision shape option? (As illustrated in the below attachments.)

It's a pinball paddle so I can't use the Physics - Ground object.
I am using the physics Axial movement object.

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Also it tends to miss when the Ball (Physics Bouncing Ball Movement) object hits the paddle at high speed. I have set it to 'Bullet' for the ball but there is no such option for the paddle (Physics Axial Movement) as the paddle is moving pretty fast too.

Thanks

salamanderpants · December 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM

* Restore layer names to layer toolbar (? now I have to click on each layer to see its name??)

* Fix the text in all menus etc. and buttons at the top of the properties toolbar. Please login to see this link.

* Update the help file so I can search it and have relevant results returned for new features. Eg "paint mode" returns nothing relevant; "extension manager" returns nothing relevant.

SolarB · December 10, 2013 at 4:51 AM

Option to change the background of the frame editor. Seems too bright compared with what it was in 2.0.

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