Sprite

A sprite is a two-dimensional image and animation
resource. It is one of two visual resources
offered in Game Maker, the other being
backgrounds. Sprites can be used to represent
objects, or drawn separately from them.

Specification

ENIGMA stores sprites as RGBA bitmaps. They can be stored in the
executable itself or loaded externally on runtime.
LateralGM can load any Java-recognized image
format, such as bmp, jp[e]g, png, tif[f], and gif, as well as any
additional SPI-registered format such as wbmp and ico. In the end, the
format of the loaded file does not matter, as the storage mechanism is
the same. This may change as the project shifts to allow external
storage.

Uses

Sprites are typically used to represent instances of objects. Sprites
can be assigned to a specific object via object properties in
LateralGM. When a sprite has been assigned to an
object then every instance of that object will draw that sprite at the
instances position according to the current values of the
sprite-related global
locals.

If the object has a draw event, then the assigned sprite will not be
drawn. Instead, the sprite drawing functions can be used in the draw
event to draw the necessary sprite.

Functions

Drawing sprites