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  • 7 Mar, 2009
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  Families are broken in 0.98.8. We should have a new build out soon to fix that.

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  • 7 Mar, 2009
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  All non-global objects are destroyed at the end of a layout, so it works exactly the same in the events as using global objects, except nothing from the previous layout is left over. If you do have global objects like Mouse & keyboard though, make sure those don't get copied, otherwise you end up with 2 global instances.

  This sounds most likely to be a problem in your own events, unless you can reproduce it in a fresh .cap.

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  • 7 Mar, 2009
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  Well I tried the alpha channel quantisation idea, tweaked it to slightly smooth out the edges, and here it is:

  <img src="http://www.scirra.com/images/crisp.png">

  I've called the shader 'Crispify' and it's in the next build. Note the edges are crisp, but the internal colours are still linear filtered! Better yet, it's shader model 1.1, and no distance map needed.

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  That's cool but how on earth do you make the distance map image? Even if it's easy, if you enabled it for an entire game, you could double your VRAM requirements. As Quazi pointed out, you can probably also achieve this with a shader that quantizes the alpha channel to either 0 or 1.

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  • 6 Mar, 2009
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  That's fixed in the next build. Array in 0.98.8 reads with 0-based indices still, I think.

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  • 6 Mar, 2009
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  OK, you should be editor now.

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  • 6 Mar, 2009
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  Nice mention you got there

  It'd be nice if you had a "made in Construct" flash past somewhere... so people know the program behind it

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  • 6 Mar, 2009
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  Davo, what's the syntax for this?

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  • 6 Mar, 2009
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  Oops, it was a bug, 'set angle of motion' should work even with 'rotate object' enabled. It's fixed in the next build.

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  • 6 Mar, 2009
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  Use a family. If the balls are in a family, you can use conditions in the family to pick a different set of objects.

  For example:

  + MyFamily 'selected' = 1

  + Ball overlaps MyFamily

  -> Do action on ball

  In the actions, "Ball" relates to the objects overlapping the selected instance, and "MyFamily" relates to the object with selected = 1.

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  • 6 Mar, 2009
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  Enter + left click selects the object underneath. Does that help?

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  • 6 Mar, 2009
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  Crashes are always bugs, so please report them!

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  I don't think streaming is possible in DirectX. Both the CPU and GPU wait until the texture upload completes, and that is almost certainly a noticable pause.

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  • 5 Mar, 2009
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  Can you post a .cap?

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  • 5 Mar, 2009
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  There is no such thing as drawing from a compressed texture. If it's on the video card, it's uncompressed.