Surface Formats in GameMaker

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The Game Maker - The 18th Carol Reed Mystery (2023)
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We can create surfaces which contain data other than one byte for red, green, blue, and alpha!

I'll have a few videos with a few practical examples of these soon-ish.

0:00 Introduction
1:43 The new surface formats
5:29 surface_format_is_supported
6:38 Sampling from and rendering to the new surface formats
8:06 Examining the data written to a particular surface formats
15:01 Alpha blending still happens with the new surface formats, even if you're not thinking about colors
17:25 The end

Rendering depth, the easier way:
https://youtu.be/Adhe5LvLrPo

Wizard game - deferred lighting and surface formats:
https://youtu.be/6B_jQMVji4U
Colors, surfaces, and buffers:
https://youtu.be/A0SiNUfSglI

GameMaker Studio 2.3 playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrfuDcYrTufdpgwoALAczPR2
GameMaker 3D playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrcML9uqHe4fwBVTm650Vy3V

Thumbnail credit:
surface by Nono Martínez Alonso from NounProject.com

#GameMaker
#GameMakerSurfaces
#GameMakerSurfaceFormats
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