Pasting with drawing canvas for split screen local MP

IIRC, with R0J0's paster/canvas plugins, the method was to shift the viewport, paste it to the canvas, then move the viewport back, resulting in two views. Please correct me if I'm wrong, since I never actually tried that plugin myself.

Is this not possible with C3's drawing canvas due to the paste object action only happening at the end of each rendering frame and outside of the normal order of events and actions?

From the sound of it that is the case. I can understand it is more performant to do the pasting when everything else is drawn, but it does nerf its use in a lot of ways.

How do you do it in C3?

I had an idea to swap multiple canvas objects for each view from an off screen playing area to the viewport every other tick. So you would be seeing what happened one frame in the past.

Seemed super clunky though, haven't tried it yet.

The other way that has always worked is to basically render a copy of every object for every player, offset and on their own layer with blending modes to split the screen.

Is this not possible with C3's drawing canvas due to the paste object action only happening at the end of each rendering frame and outside of the normal order of events and actions?

FYI that doesn't happen, it draws where the objects are at the time of the paste action. I think you're referring to an old bug where that happened, but the bug was fixed.

Oh! Sorry for the confusion. I was going by the manual entry where it said "If an object is destroyed the same tick that you paste it, it will not be drawn, since drawing happens at the end of the tick."

I couldn't get it to work the way I imagined in a quick experiment. I'll give it another shot, must have done something wrong.

The object is rendered at the end of the tick, but it's drawn at the position it was at the time of the paste action.

oosyragThe link works. But how would I incorporate this into a split-screen, two-player game?

Thanks

Give me a Pixel

You'll be interested in this part in particular:

Offset every object by the difference between player 1 and player 2

Paste to canvas

Return objects to original position

The canvas portion of the screen will show the area around one player, while the normal viewport will show the area around the other.

I'll make a more usable example later.

hmm. I don't know if that would be a good idea. For a big game, there would be a lot of objects to move (Even if you put them in families). Also, if you don't move the player with them, then the enemies can move and hurt the player when they shouldn't. I have another idea that might b worth checking out: construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/split-screen-effect-144701

oosyrag

Anyway, how's that example coming? If it works I am very eager to use it. I've tried nearly everything I can think of!

I assumed from your reply that you were not interested in this method so I didn't revisit it. It was a pretty quick modification though.

dropbox.com/s/p2ilod6sl892gga/splitscreenexample.c3p

Dude, that is so cool! Thanks for sharing!