This tower's a bit different from the other ones. Nests create birds which fly in a circle around them, dealing damage to anything that walks past! Repository (as of the last time I worked on it, which is a few episodes ahead of this video): https://github.com/DragoniteSpam-GameMaker-Tutorials/Bombadier Each week is going to be listed as a "release." https://github.com/DragoniteSpam-GameMaker-Tutorials/Bombadier/releases/tag/0.28 3D Tower Defense playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvreDB5Kj0BtGBx2yIAaYDPMC GameMaker 3D playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrcML9uqHe4fwBVTm650Vy3V GameMaker Studio 2 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrdAGC6YHCqn_VR69GlR_rQw #GameMaker #GameMakerTowerDefense #GameMaker3D - - - - - I've now made that Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wizardragon That promised social media link spam. https://twitter.com/DragoniteSpam Transition / idle music is by my old friend Kamex: https://www.youtube.com/user/GreatGabite/about Rate, comment, subscribe, watch more, enjoy! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UFuhmNQpaY

If you want to play it yourself you can find the game on Steam. The game itself is pretty fun, but the lack of polish is kind of hard to ignore. https://store.steampowered.com/app/42 This is going to be an informal side series that I post on Mondays and / or in between other series, and by that I mean it's going to be pretty light on editing and I'm just going to cut it in appropriate places instead of when we sign on and off. The game's also apparently really long, so it might be going on for a few weeks. Uhh, I mean a few years. #BadTranslations #TheGateOfFirmament #XuanYuanSword - - - - - I've now made that Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wizardragon That promised social media link spam. https://twitter.com/DragoniteSpam Transition / idle music is by my old friend Kamex: https://www.youtube.com/user/GreatGabite/about Rate, comment, subscribe, watch more, enjoy! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsfxLyEYhwo

The third and final type of basic 3D lights, the spot light! Spot lights have more math involved than point or directional lights, but if you've already written shaders for point or directional lights you can re-use a lot of the old code! Here's the code: https://github.com/DragoniteSpam-GameMaker-Tutorials/3DTutorial23SpotLights GameMaker 3D playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrcML9uqHe4fwBVTm650Vy3V GameMaker Studio 2 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hT--4HOvrdAGC6YHCqn_VR69GlR_rQw Camera icon in the thumbnail: Conical frustum shape by icon 54 from the Noun Project #GameMaker3D #GameMaker3DLight #GameMaker3DShaders - - - - - I've now made that Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wizardragon That promised social media link spam. https://twitter.com/DragoniteSpam Transition / idle music is by my old friend Kamex: https://www.youtube.com/user/GreatGabite/about Rate, comment, subscribe, watch more, enjoy! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk2rLJOdLKE

Game Maker uses a very high-level scripting language and normally does not allow you to get very close to the actual computer hardware - but buffers allow you to get around this. They're nothing more or less than a continuous, uninterrupted section of memory that you can do whatever you want with, and are probably as close to pointers as you're likely to get in Game Maker (the actual pointer functions notwithstanding) if you're into that kind of thing. Note: I'm doing this demo in Game Maker Studio 2, but everything here will still work in Game Maker Studio 1 if you're still using that (although some of the data types were not properly implemented at that point). Uses include (but aren't limited to): manipulating large numbers of data very quickly, using the built-in networking functions, extremely fast file read / write times, sending data to shaders (in the form of vertex buffers), receiving data back from shaders (in the form of the target surface), audio manipulation, interfacing with DLLs, and undoubtedly many other things which I have yet to encounter. A note on floating point values: As of my writing this, the Game Maker documentation claims floating point values have the same range as the signed integer types of the same size - they do not. Floating point values have a much greater maximum range than integers, but at the cost of precision - that is to say, you can only store a certain number of significant digits with a high degree of accuracy. You can read more about them on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic Advanced buffer things: https://youtu.be/Z4Urp5spLJg Using buffers with files: https://youtu.be/os9aotyP8Tk There's only like a dozen lines of code, but if you really want it: https://www.mediafire.com/file/o4lnfybbcm5e9ij/Buffers.yyz/file #GameMaker #GameMakerTutorial #GameMakerBuffers - - - - - I've now made that Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wizardragon That promised social media link spam. https://twitter.com/DragoniteSpam Anyone wanna donate? https://tinyurl.com/DragoniteSpamSellsOut Rate, comment, subscribe, watch more, enjoy! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfUcVqEtYz4