please help me...

[tHEwARZONE1]

im having some trouble using the program (yes, i'm new). i read through the tuts but i can seem to get it to work right. i cant get it to load sprites or backgrounds into the game. it just shows a black screen. do the images have to be in a certain folder or something? please reply if you can help me.

[Kitty Hello]

They should be in the folder which the project is in. There's a toolbar button at the top, that can open this folder.

[tHEwARZONE1]

is this program better than game maker

[Kitty Hello]

By the gazillions! Try it out. The demo is neither time nor feature limited. It's just watermarked and the runtime of the games is limited, but for testing that's pretty enough.

[bigsofty]

is this program better than game maker

Game Maker is a toy compared to GLBasic, this is a proper fully fledged programming language, its learning curve may be a little steeper but its capable of far more,

My advice, take some of the VERY short demos out of the manual and remove lines to see what effect it has on the running of the program. Then try adding your own commands or changing some command parameters to see what the effect it can have.

[BumbleBee]

Yes,GLBasic is a real programming language for games. Write any kind of game you like.  
Lots of examples in the samples folder. And if you have any questions...

it just shows a black screen.

Most common causes for a black screen are:

Path is wrong.
Graphics don't exist.
Missing SHOWSCREEN command.
PC unplugged.

Cheers

[Hb!]

tsk  being a newbie its not very funny.. anyways if you try hard you can make something good, and yes youre right game maker seems to be easier, but its extremely limited.....  theWarzone1  i also had your same problem..... (indeed i got very thrilled when i fanally found out  how to load sprites.....)

[Schranz0r]

atm theres a bug in DRAWSPRITE (version 5.016)  !
I hope Gernot will fix it today