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  • I haven't seen this yet, and will look at it today, but can someone who has seen it tell me if the flow chart has the following:

    Ability to change variables

    Has IF/THEN/ELSE commands?

    I've been using a program called Arcweave, and created an interface that allows me to have Construct 3 understand it. It's not been easy, and I shelved the project when I saw Construct was getting FlowCharts, but it needs to be more or just as powerful as Arcweave.

    Just had a look at the new flow chart, and without meaning to sound offensive, I'm honestly massively disappointed. You can't even create loops back to an earlier piece of dialogue without having to create a link and some events that control this. Which means for every future project, you need to jump through the same hoops just to achieve this result.

    Did anyone look into the software I recommended? I understand being able to combine the flow chart with the event sheet, but NEEDING to connect it to the event sheet is another thing entirely.

    I just looked through the example project, and it's incredibly hard to navigate. I'm constantly having to flick from one flow chart to the event sheet, then back over to the first flow chart again to see where you're meant to look next.

    In the software I posted, you literally just create a "Jump"... then double click on the Jump and you're at the next point. Also, you can easily create loops.

    The other version allows me to place sprites directly into the flow chart, allowing me to choose backgrounds, characters, etc, quickly and efficiently.

    My point is, if there are examples of incredible and efficient ways of doing flow charts, why are we given something that feels like it's so incredibly outdated?

    Again, I want to emphasise that I am not meaning to sound rude or ungrateful. I was very excited for this feature, and I understand that it's likely to get more work in the future, but it just feels like it's heading in the wrong direction, imo.

    It's like looking at Discord, then creating MSN Messenger and considering it a good alternative.

  • Guess this isn't yet possible.

  • Looks fine to me although with just numbers it can be a bit obscure to look at. Maybe you're not fully understanding how exactly the auto47 works. The default tilemap graphic has a functioning example in place, why not use that as reference?

    Tile 1 and tile 29 fulfill different cases.

    Here's a placeholder I made some time ago for a 20x20 grid. The dark parts are inside, the bright parts are the edges/outside.

    That's what I used as a reference. Note I copied it's shapes in the top image I posted.

    The top left shape should be using 29,30,31 as the top row, but instead it's using 29,23,31. For some reason, it's using the tile which should be reserved for long horizontal straights.

  • Cut poorly? It's just a quick example. That shouldn't change the numbers. The top left area show this.

    Where it should show a 1, it shows 29.

    I'm assuming I'm missing something obvious, but it would be nice to actually have a template for these tilemaps.

    Auto16 works fine, but Auto47 doesn't.

  • I'm creating a new layer at runtime. How do I set it up to be a 3D layer? I can't see the setting anywhere.

  • I ended up with a result that sort of works, but it doesn't use the shadow plugin. Instead, it uses the drawing canvas to make a polygon of the shape I want.

    However, I now have the problem where it works great with a couple of objects, but when there are lots, it begins to slow down.

    In this example, there are only a few dozen, so it runs alright, but not great.

    In my actual game, there are 1000+ for it to work with.

    The problem I'm facing is that there seems to be literally no way to see if a line of sight can see an object unless I use a for each loop, which is what is causing my slow-down.

    Also, the line of sight only acknowledges that its seen an object if it manages to see the origin point of the object, which is driving me insane...

    At the moment, the code recognises that there is a wall behind the wall, and will try to reach it.

    I've attached my code. If someone could have a look and make it super efficient, it'd be appreciated!

    https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlZkRk7KfdFFjpY2rdHZ-Q3c20kh8Q?e=lVocou

  • As an update to this, I have tried using line of sight to determine if I can actually see the object. However, seeing as I need the objects to cast a shadow, they are set to solid, and line of sight has literally no idea what object has blocked it.

    So if you make an object, then give it a solid behaviour, it blocks the line of sight, and the line of sight only recognizes if it sees an object if it can see the origin point.

    Very annoying.

  • I've been trying a few different methods, but I am struggling to get the effect I'm aiming for.

    Does anyone know of a quick and simple way to convert this result:

    into:

    The key pieces I'm looking for is if the player can see a tile, that specific tile will be visible, however, if it can't be seen, I need it to vanish. At the moment, I am struggling to find a way to achieve this.

    Anyone cracked this?

    Edit - I should add that I am not using a tiledbackground in my game, but rather a tilemap that isn't a perfect square, drawn with an auto brush.

  • Yeah, I made the post because I first misread it as "Voice Recorder" and found myself thinking finally.

    I keep forgetting where the request feature is, as I can't find any links to it on this website, which I'm likely missing. I tried searching for voice chat on it, and found nothing. Also tried looking for Flow Chart on there, and found nothing.

    I have no way of knowing if the search function isn't working, and am not a fan of looking through multiple pages. I did check the last page, and it only goes back 1 week.

    Type in Voice Chat Construct 3 on google, and I've found multiple times it was requested here on the forum for years. Additionally, a paid plugin, which I don't know if it'll do what I want it to do.

    Guess I'll go make a request.

  • I haven't seen this yet, and will look at it today, but can someone who has seen it tell me if the flow chart has the following:

    Ability to change variables

    Has IF/THEN/ELSE commands?

    I've been using a program called Arcweave, and created an interface that allows me to have Construct 3 understand it. It's not been easy, and I shelved the project when I saw Construct was getting FlowCharts, but it needs to be more or just as powerful as Arcweave.

  • Anyone know why we're getting video recorder updates before voice chat?

    In the age of social games, where it would be useful to be able to play multiplayer and talk to people with proximity voice, instead we're getting a feature that we can already do with OBS?

    I imagine I'm not seeing the main reason. Are people asking for video recording? Are people using such a feature in a game? If so, how?

  • Take note of the shape in the top left. I copied the 9 tiles, the same as shown in the tile editor's upper left, and it's using other tiles. Also, look at the bottom left. It's using the tiles in the upper left, but it's swapped the left, right, up and down around.

    I think I have the tiles set up correctly, but can anyone see anything I've done wrong?

    I can't tell if it's something I've done, or a bug in Construct.

    It's a shame, because I could do almost everything I want using Auto16, but it's missing a fill space.

  • Yes, that's the solution, thank you!

    Seems odd that you can't update them. What an odd work around.

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  • I'm using this plugin.

    construct.net/en/make-games/addons/84/greenworks

    I've been using Version 0.71.0 for months, and only recently realised this was updated.

    So I downloaded an installed the new plugin. However, I noted that my old project didn't show the new features of the update.

    When I make a new project the features appear. In this case:

    As mentioned, this doesn't appear in my old project. In fact, when I export it using NW.js and go through the process of adding the recommended files, it doesn't work at all, and I get multiple errors.

    So my question is, how do I refresh the plugin to make sure it's using the correct one?

    I tried removing the old one and then adding in back in again, but that didn't work either. By all accounts, it looks like Construct is insisting on using the old version of the plugin, even though I updated it.

  • Did you ever get this to work? I was starting to look into it now.