https://github.com/squircledev/phgen

a placeholder asset generation script for Game Maker Studio 2.3+
https://github.com/squircledev/phgen

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a placeholder asset generation script for Game Maker Studio 2.3+

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/squircledev/phgen
• Owner: squircledev
• Created: 2021-02-12T04:45:36.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-11-16T00:23:03.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T07:10:37.476Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: gamedev, gamemaker, gamemaker-studio-2, gms2
• Language: Game Maker Language
• Homepage:
• Size: 21.5 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# phgen

a placeholder asset generation script for Game Maker Studio 2.3+

![placeholder examples](https://i.imgur.com/KDXZ3u2.png)

# Description

This script will generate cached sprites and strings for you. As long as you use the same settings, they will stay the same and won't come at a large performance cost. Due to how sprite_create_from_surface works, there will still be a performance hit, but since this is for prototyping, that isn't be much of an issue.

# Usage

## Sprites

phgen_rectangle (and the other sprite generators) generate a sprite_index.

``draw_sprite(phgen_rectangle(), 0, 0, 0);``

The above code will draw a default rectangle sprite it generates, and then on all subsequent calls with the same settings, uses a cached sprite.

## Strings

phgen_word and phgen_sentence generate cached strings for you. 

``draw_text(0, 0, phgen_sentence());``

As long as you use the same settings, the sentence will stay the same. If you want the sentence to change, do this:

``phgen_cache_remove_string(phgen_sentence());``

This will clear the cache of that string and generate a new one next time you call the string generator function with the same settings.