Making Icons And Resetting The Game

[Pete Holland Jr.]

Yippee! My first project is almost complete! I was having a terrible time, so I started over from scratch, and it's going very smoothly. It's not the greatest game in the world, but I'm quite happy with how it's going.

There remains two more concerns, though, and I'm hoping someone here can help.

1) Creating an icon. The instructions say that you can give GE an .ico file and when it makes the program (for Windows, not Linux), it will have that image instead of the smiling Pac Man. So I used the GIMP and made an .ico file. Didn't work, a test compile created the Pac Man. I'm guessing I did something wrong in creating the .ico file. Are there certain guidelines (color resolution, specific size, etc.) that I need to follow?

2) I want to allow the player to reset the game at the end instead of just exiting the program completely and restarting it. The best way I've figured to do this is to create a global variable. As the game moves, the variable increases with the number of pixels the view travels. When the game resets, I simply move the view back until the variable is 0, and that's where the game starts. Sound in theory. But I'm wondering if there's an easier way. The first screen has a couple of objects that appear at no other point in the game. Is there a way to center the screen on them or move it relative to them with scripting rather than going through all the stuff with the display?

[Sgt. Sparky]

1)32x32 is the correct Icon size(.ico , yes)
2)use the loadgame function to restart it,
example,

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LoadGame("My_Project");

after you use that code,
you must export the game to whatever executable then you can take it from there
http://game-editor.com/forum/tp-3214-Sa ... ters-.html
that is a Game I just recently started workin' on

[Pete Holland Jr.]

1)32x32 is the correct Icon size(.ico , yes)

I apologize for this, but it's still not working. I have tried an actual icon making tool as well as the GIMP. The .ico files I make with the GIMP just show up as a black box in Explorer. The files made with the actual .ico file editor show up fine in Explorer, but they still will not appear as icons for the resulting program. I've altered the settings from 32 bbp to 16 bbp and everything I can think of. I even tried an actual Windows .ico file that came with the system. Compiling 1945 still produced the Pacman instead of the icon the source code had specified. Am I doing something wrong with the settings to make this happen? Or is there something in Game Editor that I need to adjust? Or is this just some bug in the program?

[makslane]

Send me the project, so I can see what's wrong.

[Pete Holland Jr.]

I think I figured out the problem.

All the files, sounds, pics, and the GED file, are on the C branch of the C drive, not in a subfolder.

I decided to take the Snail Race demo and add an .ico file to that. I put it in the data folder. Just to see what would happen, I compiled the program into its default directory, the data folder of the demo code.

The compiled program is there with the .ico.

I tried it with several .ico files, including the ones I made with the GIMP. It works.

It appears that, for the icon replacement to work, the files have to be in a subdirectory, not the main branch of the C drive. It's working fine now.

Sorry to bother you.

[Sgt. Sparky]

there is a simpler way to do that,
go to config/game properties and select your .ico file you made and save the game