Following room view

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The Question

The view of the room constantly changes, how can I get the x and y coordinates to be able to draw health bars in constantly changing views, or making objects follow the screen's view no matter where it goes to?

The Answer

For Game Maker 5.x you can use:

view_left[0]+# for the x-coordinate, # being the x value relative to the view position. view_top[0]+# for the y-coordinate, # being the y value relative to the view position.

For Game Maker 6.x or Game Maker 7.x you can use:

view_xview[0]+# for the x-coordinate, # being the x value relative to the view position. view_yview[0]+# for the y-coordinate, # being the y value realtive to the view position.

Please note that the [0] is used when the view used has the ID of 0, change the "0" to the view's id if isn't 0.