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Or unable to reproduce.

Yes, I know - 3D initialisation in DirectX sets the FPU to single precision for reasons of optimisation. That's why it first occurred in GM6, as GM6 was the first edition with 3D routines.

You know, the bug was almost reintroduced in the C++ engine, for which I also tested the first alphas. This is probably because others took over development. Fortunately I was able to point them to an MS knowledge base about it.

Not about bugs. I have usually been pretty accurate in reporting bugs - a 'bare necessity' source to reproduce, a little investigation into the scope etc. I don't think there was need for further communication in all cases because there was nothing left to ask. Fortunately I've seen all bugs that I reported fixed in subsequent versions.

I'll try and use your template when reporting bugs.

Agreed, but then you should be able to get a head start here by copying in the list of fixes mentioned in the GM7 help file.

Sorry, I forgot. The only ones I remember being changed from the original IPB distribution is the wink one, as well as replacing a few we thought we didn't need with the GM5-7 icons. And then we added a large set featuring the GM D&D icons.

Thanks Quimp, I'll correct that and implement xot's remarks.

I just thought of a few other reasons why you would not want to adjust the image angle automatically: for one, you might not be registered. (speaking of which, the gmlscripts are not marked as such). Second, the fans of rendered images would rather use a number of correctly shaded subimages for the sprite and adjust the image index to the new direction themselves.

And I guess that's why I have a tendecy towards towards (sorry, couldn't help myself). My English teacher back in those days was an apostle of British English versus American English. The latter he merely considered a contamination.

The revised script:

Expand/*
**  Usage:
**      turn_towards_instance(instance,step,imagerotate);
**
**  Arguments:
**      instance        An object or instance ID to turn to (argument0)
**      step            Step size or 'turn speed', degrees (argument1)
**      imagerotate     Whether to adjust the image angle to the direction, boolean (argument2)
**
**  Notes:
**      Use in a step event. Sprite origins should be centered for best result.
**
*/

{
    var da;
    da=point_direction(x,y,argument0.x,argument0.y)-direction;
    if abs(da)>180 da=-da;
    if abs(da)>argument1 direction+=argument1*sign(da);
    if argument2 image_angle=direction;
}

Yes, they look terrible. Go ahead and steal ours. Call me biased, but I still like them better than most I've seen around.

If you have some reservations against looking like yet another IPB rip-off, go here:

http://www.smileygenerator.us/t/index.php

They even have generators like this one where you can be creative:

http://smileygenerator.us/t/newgen/index.php

Some of them are pretty tasteless, yet they seem to feature smilies roughly based on the IPB set and can be made to look pretty cool.