alastair's Forum Posts

  • With 2 monitors, and you open and close C3, does it remember the positioning of everything across the 2 monitors?

    I think the minimum you'd want to use with C3 is probably 1440p.

    I've used regular full HD, ultra wide, and 4k.

    But I find that vertical space is the best aspect, so I prefer 4k as my main dev screen. Being able to see more events vertically + more things in object's property window is fantastic.

  • Whenever I see negative comments about C3 (mostly from users of it), it dumbfounds me.

    We love Construct 3 too!

    But sometimes people want to see it improve to become even better!

    Due to humans being emotional beings, this desire to see changes can lead to anger or frustration (negativity).

    Hope that helps your understanding!

  • Ashley says that saving to the game's directory is not good practice because of permissions issues.

    Therefore, I do what normal games do and save to user's documents folder.

    Yeah I just use the "write text" action too for saving files.

  • nwjs 71 is still the best one to use unfortunately. The linux export is still broken on all versions after that.

  • For my game, if they're on Windows, I make a folder with my game's name and put it in their user's documents folder. Then I save in that folder.

    I think most games seem to save in the player's documents folder.

    I use the NWJS extension to do this.

    I'm guessing Steam cloud could then use that save folder to keep synced?

  • I get this bug too! Do you know how it happens for you?

    For me it happens after previewing my game while it's fullscreen. My work around is to press Esc before closing preview, so that it's windowed.

    You can see my bug report here, but its claimed to be out of their control: github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues/7097

  • Thanks. If a device doesn't work with WebGPU will it automatically switch back to WebGL?

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  • Construct is basically the evolution of Clickteam's products. Clickteam, instead of making Fusion 3 after Multimedia Fusion 2, decided to spend over a decade focusing almost entirely on exporters to various devices, which meant the editor itself received minimal updates over the years.

    While Ashley took the opposite approach, ignore exporters, and focused primarily on evolving the editor/software of Fusion 2. And we've seen the fruits of that, countless updates and improvements!

    The fantasy dream would be if Ashley and Clickteam could harmonize their differences, and work together! Then we could have a great editor + exporters all in one.

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  • Thanks for explaining R0j0, I think I was also mixing up triggers and functions.

  • construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/events/functions

    It seems like experienced users use functions more than others, and that it's a preferable to use them as often as you can.

    However, it's not super clear to me how functions function.

    How are triggers checked?

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/events/how-events-work

    Rather than running once per tick, this event simply runs (or "fires") upon something actually happening. In this case, the event runs when the user hits the Spacebar key on the keyboard. It is never checked any other time.

    How can that work?

    How can it just miraculously know to run the trigger when that the button is pressed?

    Why doesn't the computer need to check every tick to see if that button is being pressed?

    Why aren't all triggers checked to see if they're true every tick?

    For me, functions feel magical and mysterious compared to regular events, where we know they run from top to bottom, being checked in a logical way.

    Does this mean triggers are always better for performance because they're not always being checked like regular events are?

    If you have hundreds of triggers from objects that are currently all destroyed, does that mean that these events/triggers effectively don't exist, they're never checked?

    For example, the trigger "On Collision", wouldn't you need to check that just as often as "Is overlapping"?

    And with ones like "On animation finished", wouldn't the engine need to keep checking to see what the animation is up to?

    Thank you for clarifying!

  • I just got the freeze after importing multiple frames into a sprite (across multiple animations).

    Then I restarted C3 and repeated the process, and it froze again!

    So I tried doing it again and now it's all good, no longer freezes! So I tried multiple times more, and I'm unable to duplicate this issue, very strange.

  • DiegoM

    This bug happens to me as well, several times recently. I have a Chrome with C3 installed, and no extensions - I only use it for C3. It was happening in the beta cycle at some point.

    C3 freezes and I have to close without saving, which sucks.

    To me, it feels like it only happens when I've imported lots frames and had the animation editor opened for a long time, maybe doing other things like deleting frames or using hotspot.

    So my workaround is to just import the frames, then quickly close the animation editor, then save, then open it again and continue work in the anim editor with placing hotspots and such.

    (I'm not using project folder, just c3p files.)

  • Ashley found that WebGL support on Linux was dropped from v0.72!

    github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/8043

    I think WebGPU is coming to Chrome soon, so I wonder how that will affect things.