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PortMaster: Understanding Game Maker Ports - A Primer

A large chunk of PortMaster ports are games using the GameMaker Engine. This engine (referred to as GMS) is an excellent beginner engine for getting into porting, but can also quickly become pretty advanced. This primer hopes to accurately summarize a few key points for how GMS ports are created and work.

Tools Used

PortMaster Engineers heavily rely on a few major tools that make GMS ports successful.

GameMaker Studio is the engine in which these games are created. If a GMS game is open source, we can use GMS to build it ourselves and make it "ready to run". Example: [Pocket Crystal League](https://github.com/JeodC/PocketCrystalLeague-Por

GPU Driven renderer design for Godot 4.x

Goals:

The main goal is to implement a GPU driven renderer for Godot 4.x. This is a renderer that happens entirely on GPU (no CPU Dispatches during opaque pass).

Additionally, this is a renderer that relies exclusively on raytracing (and a base raster pass aided by raytracing).

It is important to make a note that we dont want to implement a GPU driven renderer similar to that of AAA/Unreal, as example.

The following is how an object can be exported from Blockbench and imported to Unreal Engine 5.

Objects can be created in Blockbench according to its intended scale (16 pixels = 1 meter).

Objects should be exported from BB in the .obj format.

The .obj can be imported into Unreal Engine, just like any other asset.

A rotation should be applied to the object should be applied, used to normalize coordinates from Blockbech to UE.

	using System;
	using System.Collections;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using UnityEngine;
	using UniversalAI;

	namespace WizardsCode.UniversalAIExtension
	{
	public class SquadBehaviours : MonoBehaviour
	{

	## For a beginner-friendly version of the following (more advanced users likely will get better use of the below,
	## if you're just starting out...), see this new gist:
	## https://gist.github.com/WolfgangSenff/0a9c1d800db42a9a9441b2d0288ed0fd


	This document represents the beginning of an upgrade or migration document for GDScript 2.0 and Godot 4.0. I'm focusing on 2D
	at the moment as I'm upgrading a 2D game, but will hopefully have more to add for 3D afterward.

	## If you want more content like this, please help fund my cat's medical bills at https://ko-fi.com/kyleszklenski - thank you very much! On to the migration guide.

	/*
	Extension to CiDy that will allow you to create a NavMesh to guide pedestrians around the city.
	Any NavMesh driven character can be used. I provide some basic open source pedestrian code
	(see https://www.patreon.com/posts/64257587 and https://youtu.be/nzzS40XHWA8) but it's not
	required. If you don't use my Character controller code you will need to make a couple of
	small changes to the scripts (see comments) and build your own Custom Editor base on my code
	below.

	Add CiDyPedestrians to a convenient object in your scene, setup a couple of parameters and
	click the "Build NavMesh" button.

	# Loads a scene in the background using a seperate thread and a queue.
	# Foreach new scene there will be an instance of ResourceInteractiveLoader
	# that will raise an on_scene_loaded event once the scene has been loaded.
	# Hooking the on_progress event will give you the current progress of any
	# scene that is being processed in realtime. The loader also uses caching
	# to avoid duplicate loading of scenes and it will prevent loading the
	# same scene multiple times concurrently.
	#
	# Sample usage:
	#

	// pseudocode for transfers if game has a practically infinite number of instances.
	// From one of the game servers
	transfer(client, toInstance) {
	toInstance.someWebApi.request(
	{ transfer: { token: 'abc123', data }},
	(res) => {
	if (res.transferAccepted) {
	instance.message(new TransferMessage(address, token)), client)
	client.disconnect()
	}

	// RPG Top Down / Isometric Camera Controller

	// Tested on Unity 2018.3.0f1

	// While using the setup suggested by
	// https://answers.unity.com/questions/12027/how-to-do-a-camera-that-is-top-downisometric.html
	// I found no off the shelf camera controllers that worked as I would have liked
	// This is for basic mouse control (Rotate, Pan, Zoom)

	// Improvement suggestions left as exercise for the reader: