Collage Builder Example

This code block shows building of a collage with a full definition of a multi-sprite sprite sheet.

It's as easy as that, no tech crunch, just add your content:

COLLAGE
.for_collage(sheet.name).create()
	.add_spritesheet(sheet.name, sheet.spriteFile) 
		.set_start_position(sheet.sheet_start_x, sheet.sheet_start_y)
		.set_frame_size(sheet.frame_width, sheet.frame_height)
		.set_origins(0, 0)
		.set_line_mode_rectangle()
		.set_alignment(sheet.horizontal_alignment)
		.set_remove_back(false)
		.set_smooth(false)
		.set_separate_texture(false)
		.add_sprite(sheet.sprites[0].name, sheet.sprites[0].frames, sheet.sprites[0].sfps)
		.add_sprite(sheet.sprites[1].name, sheet.sprites[1].frames, sheet.sprites[1].sfps)
		.add_sprite(sheet.sprites[2].name, sheet.sprites[2].frames, sheet.sprites[2].sfps)
		.add_sprite(sheet.sprites[3].name, sheet.sprites[3].frames, sheet.sprites[3].sfps)
		.add_sprite(sheet.sprites[4].name, sheet.sprites[4].frames, sheet.sprites[4].sfps)
		.add_sprite(sheet.sprites[5].name, sheet.sprites[5].frames, sheet.sprites[5].sfps)
		.add_sprite(sheet.sprites[6].name, sheet.sprites[6].frames, sheet.sprites[6].sfps)
	.build()
	.add_sprite("single_bat", sprTestBat)
	.add_file("file_bat", "collagetests/bat_right.png")
	.add_sprite("single_bat2", sprTestBat)
	.add_file_strip("strip", "collagetests/bat_right_strip4.png", 4, 8)
	.add_surface("surf1", application_surface)
	.add_surface_part("surf2", application_surface, 950, 200, 64, 64)
	.add_surface_strip("surf3", surfstriptest, 4, 8)
	.add_file("url", "https://www.coldrock.games/assets/coldrock-games-trans-shadow.png")
.build();

If you look close at the code above, you will see, that we even can add the application_surface to the collage, thus taking a screenshot to the texture page.

To be able to create a collage as beautiful as the above code, a little preparation is necessary. You see lots of access to a sheet struct above. Such a definition struct normally comes from a data file (json), from RichJson or any data source.

However, for the test scenario above, we created this definition struct and a canvas surface in code. It looks like this:

var sheet = {
	spriteFile		: "collagetests/bats_over_multiple_rows_with_padding.png",
	horizontal_alignment	: true,
	name			: "demo",
	frame_width		: 32,
	frame_height		: 32,
	sheet_start_x		: 10,
	sheet_start_y		: 15,
	sprites: [
		{ name: "spr_bat_dead_down" ,	frames: 1, sfps: 0},
		{ name: "spr_bat_fly_down"  ,	frames: 4, sfps: 4},
		{ name: "spr_bat_fly_right" ,	frames: 5, sfps: 8},
		{ name: "spr_bat_dead_right",	frames: 1, sfps: 0},
		{ name: "spr_bat_dead_up"   ,	frames: 1, sfps: 0},
		{ name: "spr_bat_dead_left" ,	frames: 1, sfps: 0},
		{ name: "spr_bat_fly_left"  ,	frames: 3, sfps: 4},
	],
};	

var surfstriptest = sprite_to_canvas(sprTestBat).canvas.GetSurfaceID();

Adding Collision Masks to Sprites

For some of your CollageSprites you might want to have collision masks active, so they can behave like real internal sprites.

raptor's collage implementation supports all available types of masks, and each sprite receives the default GameMaker collision mask setting: Automatic Rectangle.

If you want a different mask, you may do this through the sprite class of your collage. The example below shows all types of masks. This is of course also a builder pattern, where the .build() method returns the CollageManager (COLLAGE), so may even chain all build calls.

COLLAGE
    .get_sprite("my_sprite1").set_mask_automatic (bboxkind_rectangular).build()
    .get_sprite("my_sprite2").set_mask_full_image(bboxkind_rectangular).build()
    // coordinates are left, top, right, bottom, 
    .get_sprite("my_sprite3").set_mask_manual(4, 4, 18, 18, bboxkind_rectangular).build()
    // first argument is "per_frame", the second is the tolerance from 0..1
    .get_sprite("my_sprite4").set_mask_precise(true, 0.15).build()