Greg Lobanov

i've been trying to get into gamemaker but the lack of functions is really tripping me up, it's how i've been trained to think for so long

i know they're "scripts" but the overhead of creating them and losing them in the mess of other global scripts is kind of overwhelming to me

you could try adding a prefix to your script assets, to more easily find them with autocomplete?

I do it that way too - pkg.Class.func -> pkg_class_func, and have the resource tree structured like pkg . class . . pkg_class_func

so would you maybe end up with a scripted scene having several of these scripts that get called by your dialogue system, by name?

If it's linear dialogue, can have the dialogue system have an array of actions (who's speaking, what text, -) made up from small arrays too.

yeah, but i also want to mix in arbitrary code. i could throw in the script id's and call them in step, but that means a script each