Create a simple drawing engine?

I was considering making an Inkball clone (Haven't played? It's like pinball but you draw lines instead of use the flippers. It came with the XP Touch and Vista computers, but Microsoft scrapped it with Win7. They should have brought it back for Win8.)

But can Construct make a simple drawing system? All I need is something that lets you sketch something, and then erase it either when you hit the eraser button or when a ball hits it. (But if this idea takes off, it could become some kind of Magic Pencil game!)

Trying to bring it back to Win8, eh? Also, bump, I'd love to know how to do this

try the canvas plugin

I'm unfamiliar with that. How do I use it?

CAPX

live example

Here, just one event. Just hold your left mouse button and draw.

You will notice it isn't very responsive when you move the mouse cursor at speed. To solve this, you need loops that update the canvas many times per tick.

Hope this helps

Hey, that's pretty cool! Thanks!

No problem!

Hm I was mistaken, I can't make it work using loops.

Anyone know how to make the canvas "draw point" draw smoother lines? Maybe even control the smoothness of those lines (i.e. how close the points are together)

I just downloaded the plugin needed (Thanks, R0J0hound!) but how do I install it now?

I'll just leave this here.

newt, because you ROCK

also, this

Oh newt and if you add a

Mouse

On left button Released

• canvas: begin path

it even stops drawing when you don't want it to

capx