Waterfall Image Issues

[StealthyMC]

Apparently my graphics designer Delta ran into some issues with implementing waterfalls for the first level, Shimmering Shores. Here are a couple of images to show what the problem looks like:

Can someone here provide us with a solution, or at least a suggestion? Help would be great.

[Damizean]

Implement the Draw event and select the frame to render based on a global timer. For example

draw_sprite(sprite_index, global.TimeSinceLevelStart * 0.1, x, y);

[Delta Hedgehog]

I'm sorry, but could you please go into a little more detail about what I should do? I can do some things in Game Maker, but it's like you're speaking a foreign language right now.

[StealthyMC]

I've tried out your suggestion Damizean, it seems like it's almost been resolved. The waterfalls look better vertically now, but the error in the second screenshot still persists.

[Delta Hedgehog]

Send me the engine. It might be a problem with the sprite still.

[Delta Hedgehog]

I can't seem to fix the issue in the first screen I have no idea what is causing it. It's probably the sprite.

[DimensionWarped]

Ugh. It's not the sprite. It's what Damizean said. The image starts its animation based on when it becomes visible on screen. That means the first object that becomes visible to the player starts playing the animation before the others so they become out of sync. You can prevent this by overriding the normal draw function in Game Maker with a scripted one.

Select whatever object is used for the waterfall. Select "Add Event" and choose a draw event. For the action that you take, select 'Execute Code' from the code section in the control tab. Then just put the code Damizean referenced in the script editor window that appears.

[Delta Hedgehog]

My bad, I didn't mean to say the first screenshot, I meant the second screen. The first has already been resolved.

[DimensionWarped]

It's the same problem in both cases.

[Delta Hedgehog]

Now the only thing I have to resolve is the layering.