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  • 7 Dec, 2008
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  They should do, post a tracker bug if they don't.

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  • 6 Dec, 2008
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  Can you post a .cap file that does this?

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  • 6 Dec, 2008
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  A better way to handle pause is to use the ELSE condition and a subevent. Eg:

  + On P pressed

  ----+ (conditions saying it's already paused)

  ----> Unpause

  ----+ Else

  ----> Pause

  This way you don't need any flags or other events (and it's easier to make sense of too).

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  • 6 Dec, 2008
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  I've no idea why that would happen. Construct is just loading DLLs like any other application. Maybe DEP is overzealous...

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  • 6 Dec, 2008
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  If you're new try going over the Ghost Shooter tutorial on the Learn section of the main site - it covers things like hot spots, image points,etc.

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  • 6 Dec, 2008
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  Have you tried the Ghost Shooter tutorial on the Learn section of the site?

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  • 5 Dec, 2008
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  I just got slammed with end of semester assignments.

  Tell me about it

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  • 4 Dec, 2008
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  Are you using the latest build? Can you reproduce this in a blank .cap file? It's hard to see the setup of containers, families, movements and family movements from just the event sheet listing - it'd be very helpful if you can reproduce.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 3 Dec, 2008
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  Hmm, that's annoying - all of my code succeeds, then no more XAudio2 calls are made, and XAudio2 crashes in its own code. I'm guessing that it must be a bug in XAudio2, or your sound hardware/drivers. Do you know precisely what sound chipset/card you have? Or the motherboard if its built-in? I think I'll have to go to Microsoft over this one...

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  • 3 Dec, 2008
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  Deadeye, I think Scytos might have stopped checking this thread, could you get him to check out this file? http://www.scirra.com/files/xaudio2test.zip

  Hopefully it'll shed some light on the XAudio2 problem (I really want to fix it).

  As for someone somewhere moaning about the bugs in Construct, it might have its bugs, being a beta, but it's also free, so I'd rather people like that used it and submitted useful bug reports, or just never used it at all. What does he want, his money back?

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  • 3 Dec, 2008
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  The lerp function linearly interpolates between values, so you'd get an unlimited number of in-between values - if you want the 3000th (half way) value between the 8th and 9th item, you'd use that formula with X = 8.5 (ie. half way between 8 and 9). Does that help?

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  • 2 Dec, 2008
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  Wow, I've never seen such a big game universe!

  Yeah, the physics behavior has a finite world size. The Box2D docs don't make it clear the purpose of the world bounding box - it's just been made as large as reasonably would be expected to be useful, which does seem to end about 20,000 by 20,000. It vaguely mentions it might improve performance to use a smaller bounding box, but I don't know why. What you want is effectively an unlimited physics world size anyway - I'm not sure that's possible with existing physics engines.

  You might be able to get some mileage by changing the world x/y scale (either make it really huge, or really small, I forget which). Apart from that, I think you're pushing beyond the limits of a physics engine. I don't think they're designed to span billions of pixels.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 2 Dec, 2008
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  Scytos, can you try running this?

  http://www.scirra.com/files/xaudio2test.zip

  Let me know what messages appear - it's got a prompt at every stage of the initialisation process. Hopefully it'll be able to tell us exactly where things are going wrong for you.

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  • 2 Dec, 2008
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  I think he wants Construct to store the game's images outside of the EXE, so he can edit them there without loading Construct. This isn't yet implemented! Although in the animation bar, you can right click and select 'Launch explorer' to open the files for a single animation.

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  • 2 Dec, 2008
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  Wow... other people have displays like that in your village too? I bet you can see it from space.