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  • 11 Mar, 2021
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  Construct projects should be backwards compatible all the way back to Construct 2 projects made in 2011. Even those should still successfully open in Construct 3.

  If a project fails to open, press F12 and check for a more detailed error message in the browser console. Usually the problem is something like a broken third-party addon, or a version mismatch with a third-party addon. You might have to try to hunt down the specific versions of any third-party addons you were using in 2018, in case later updates to those addons broke your projects.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  The provided link just returns a page not found error here.

  Usually the problem is that you either didn't upload all the files, or the server configuration is wrong. Press F12 (or Cmd+Shift+I in Safari, IIRC) and check the browser console for any error messages.

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  This is exactly the problem described in my blog post The surprising difficulty of resizing images on spritesheets. Change the project downscaling quality property to "High" and it should fix it. However it will increase the memory usage of the game.

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  Enable "unbounded scrolling", which gives you an effectively unlimited layout area. Then you can impose your own custom scrolling boundaries that can change in events.

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  • 10 Mar, 2021
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  Moved to Scripting forum. Please don't re-post the same thread.

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  • 10 Mar, 2021
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  Use a Tiled Background.

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  The Anchor behavior keeps objects positioned according to the edges of their bounding boxes. Rotating an object enlarges the bounding box, and so the Anchor behavior will adjust the position accordingly, which won't keep it centered.

  It should be straightforward to work around though: you could anchor an invisible non-rotating object, and pin the rotating object on top of that. Or just don't use the Anchor behavior, and position the object with events according to the system viewport expressions.

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  The engine just completely ignores the event sheet that functions are on. So there is no technical reason why moving functions to a different event sheet would affect anything. I would guess you actually changed something else which affected performance.

  I don't know what more to say about functions and triggers. They do nothing, except run when they run. Only ordinary events are checked every tick.

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  • 10 Mar, 2021
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  The error does seem to identify the Greenworks plugin, but I have no idea how that error could happen. Maybe somehow you installed two Greenworks plugins? That should not be possible.

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  • 9 Mar, 2021
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  Normally you don't need to change the layout size: you can just use unbounded scrolling for an essentially infinite layout area, and then implement your own scroll limits with events. Pathfinding is a special case as it uses the layout area to determine the obstacle grid. But if you have a maximum size you know is the furthest the size will go to, presumably you can just use the same approach, but working within that maximum size.

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  IIRC, that is not supported in the Addon SDK, so you should not (or cannot) use it. The supported methods are listed in the Addon SDK documentation.

  Just use normal instance properties.

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  You don't need to use the WebSocket plugin in Construct. You can just use the WebSockets API directly in JavaScript, i.e. new WebSocket(...).

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  • 9 Mar, 2021
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  I think the "sad face" icon means the GPU driver crashed, or your game used too much memory and crashed. Check the memory usage is reasonable and try updating your graphics drivers.

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  As noted, you can't pathfind over an unlimited area, as doing so would require an infinite amount of memory.

  You could set the layout size to the largest you'd need to use, and then implement custom scrolling boundaries within that to simulate using a smaller layout.

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  • 9 Mar, 2021
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  Export with the NW.js option and make sure one of the Linux platforms is selected. It exports more files than the ones you stated.