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| 41 | +<h2><span class="blogdate">March 20, 2026</span><span><a href="/news/2026/03/gmlscripts-com-3-9-transition-part-4/">GMLscripts.com 3.9 Transition (part 4)</a></span></h2> |
| 42 | +<p><img alt="/news/images/blogicon-20260320.png" class="fright" src="/news/images/blogicon-20260320.png" title="/news/images/blogicon-20260320.png"> |
| 43 | +In this long-delayed update, we have completed the news section. Over 50 archived stories have been added, reaching all the way back to the launch of the site 19 years ago. Pages of multiple articles can now be browsed from the <a href="/news">News</a> menu. I decided against news summaries. They were never written with summarization in mind, and abbreviating them automatically raises some tricky issues. If I can find a good place to put it, I may add a simple headline index.</p> |
| 44 | +<p>The next major effort will be a new site layout and modernized look. This has weighed heavily on my mind. It's not easy. I love this bucket of bolts. I'm considering ways to eliminate the sidebar navigation, but I'm not altogether happy with a hybrid breadcrumb menu I've come up with. I may need to consult with some UX folks.</p> |
| 45 | +<p><em>Does it never end?</em></p> |
| 46 | +<p class="byline"><em>posted by xot</em></p> |
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| 48 | +<h2><span class="blogdate">February 2, 2025</span><span><a href="/news/2025/02/gmlscripts-com-3-8-transition-part-3/">GMLscripts.com 3.8 Transition (part 3)</a></span></h2> |
| 49 | +<p><img alt="/news/images/blogicon-20250202.png" class="fright" src="/news/images/blogicon-20250202.png" title="/news/images/blogicon-20250202.png"> |
| 50 | +This update marks the addition of a new client-side search engine. The <a href="/search">search</a> page is accessible from the site's global navigation, currently at the top of every page. Simply type your query and see the search results instantly. The search corpus is composed of script pages. Search results may be improved with the addition of tags. Implicit tags are already being used but it is possible tags will be explicitly added to script pages to improve results.</p> |
| 51 | +<p>Returning to the site is the reporting of recent script changes. A list of script changes is included on the <a href="/">landing</a> page and decorators are now added to script definitions wherever they appear on the site.</p> |
| 52 | +<p>Improvements have been made to news navigation but more work is required. The two major changes needed are the pagination of the <a href="/news">news</a> index and the creation of news summaries. These will require some thought.</p> |
| 53 | +<p>Minor visual changes and optimizations have been made that are probably not noticeable. Further optimizations are anticipated and a full visual overhaul is on the horizon.</p> |
| 54 | +<p class="byline"><em>posted by xot</em></p> |
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| 56 | +<h2><span class="blogdate">January 14, 2025</span><span><a href="/news/2025/01/gmlscripts-com-3-7-transition-part-2/">GMLscripts.com 3.7 Transition (part 2)</a></span></h2> |
| 57 | +<p><img alt="/news/images/blogicon-20250114.png" class="fright" src="/news/images/blogicon-20250114.png" title="/news/images/blogicon-20250114.png"> |
| 58 | +Work behind the scenes continues. The site is now statically generated by an entirely new fully offline system I've written in Python. This is my first major Python project which has been quite a learning experience. Much of the code is based on the old PHP dynamic page generator, but now the site is generated in only five seconds compared to the 15 minutes it took using <code>wget</code> to crawl a locally hosted dynamic version.</p> |
| 59 | +<p>The new build process includes a templating engine that takes many cues from <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jekyll</a> to empower a simple news blog, which was a fun programming task. More work is needed to fully realize my needs. All material is now referenced from the same single sources, so all pages and repo files should stay in sync automatically. With any luck, there shouldn't be much visible difference from the previous version.</p> |
| 60 | +<p>More obvious changes have been made to the script submission process. This includes a new <a href="/script/CONTRIBUTING">contribution guide</a> and updated <a href="/script/STYLEGUIDE">style guide</a>.</p> |
| 61 | +<p>The next update should include a search engine, improved news navigation, and a return of the recent changes list and script decorators.</p> |
| 62 | +<p class="byline"><em>posted by xot</em></p> |
| 63 | +<hr> |
| 64 | +<h2><span class="blogdate">December 21, 2024</span><span><a href="/news/2024/12/gmlscripts-com-3-6-transition/">GMLscripts.com 3.6 Transition</a></span></h2> |
| 65 | +<p><img alt="/news/images/blogicon-20241221.png" class="fright" src="/news/images/blogicon-20241221.png" title="/news/images/blogicon-20241221.png"> |
| 66 | +This update represents one of the biggest changes to <a href="/">GMLscripts.com</a> to date and it has been a long time coming. I wasn't sure how to introduce the changes but fate took an unfortunate turn. Some personal upheaval resulted in the site going offline for a couple of months which somewhat forced my hand. The site is back and at first glance, things appear the same. However, there are two major changes.</p> |
| 67 | +<p>First, the forums are no longer accessible. I'd been wanting to wind them down for a few years because they were never very active and the forum software itself is no longer maintained by its developers. Even when it was being supported, keeping the software up to date required a lot of manual, error-prone effort because of all the modifications I've made over the years. However, I think GitHub can help us out, and I intend to open <a href="https://github.com/gmlscripts/scripts/discussions" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Discussions</a> there soon and script submissions can still be made via <a href="https://github.com/gmlscripts/scripts/pulls" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pull Request</a>.</p> |
| 68 | +<p>Second, the site is no longer dynamic. This has less of an effect on you than on me. Until now, all script pages were generated from a pair of source files which are found in the <a href="https://github.com/gmlscripts/scripts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GitHub Script Repository</a> — the GML script itself and an extended Markdown document. This was a nice system because script updates in the repo automatically appeared on the site. However, that is over. No more PHP, no more MySQL — at least here. The emergency "static mirror" is now the only version of the site. I still locally generate the static version of the site using the same dynamic backend but I'm looking into new site generation options.</p> |
| 69 | +<p>At the moment things are in transition and less than ideal. I have more tidying to do and I want to develop a fresh trajectory soon.</p> |
| 70 | +<p><em>Good luck to you all in 2025.</em></p> |
| 71 | +<p class="byline"><em>posted by xot</em></p> |
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| 110 | +<a href="#game_play">Game Play</a> |
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| 112 | +<li><a href="/script/Game_Play/Artificial_Intelligence/">Artificial Intelligence</a></li> |
| 113 | +<li><a href="/script/Game_Play/Collisions/">Collisions</a></li> |
| 114 | +<li><a href="/script/Game_Play/Instances/">Instances</a></li> |
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| 119 | +<a href="#graphics">Graphics</a> |
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| 121 | +<li><a href="/script/Graphics/Color/">Color</a></li> |
| 122 | +<li><a href="/script/Graphics/Drawing/">Drawing</a></li> |
| 123 | +<li><a href="/script/Graphics/Shaders/">Shaders</a></li> |
| 124 | +<li><a href="/script/Graphics/Sprites/">Sprites</a></li> |
| 125 | +<li><a href="/script/Graphics/Surfaces/">Surfaces</a></li> |
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