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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 25 Sep, 2008
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  Maybe you just want to add 1 to the value...?

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 25 Sep, 2008
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  Great job with the character animation, I love it!

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  • 25 Sep, 2008
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  as cloning layouts with events is impossible

  Put the game code in to a separate event sheet, and include the event sheet from layouts that use it. Then it's just one central place to edit your events.

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  • 25 Sep, 2008
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  ScrollXLeft etc. are definitely coded to accept a layer parameter - are you sure it's not working correctly? If you set ScrollXLeft to one text object, and ScrollXLeft("Stars") to another, how do they differ?

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  • 25 Sep, 2008
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  I haven't played it yet, but the PS 2 shaders in Construct are very useful and can be used to impressive effect. You can also use the effect controls to allow alternative rendering for cards without PS 2.0.

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  • 25 Sep, 2008
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  Not the next minor build, but the next major build. I have started it on a new CVS module called 'Plugins', where I will be putting up some open-source plugins.

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  • 25 Sep, 2008
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  Yes, XAudio2 works on WinXP. Ironically, I think the XP implementation relies on DirectSound!

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  • 25 Sep, 2008
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  Sounds like a great idea! My approach with Ghost Shooter was essentially to come up with a playable game, then reverse-engineer that and create a step-by-step guide to how to make that game, which just happened to cover things from image points to behaviors etc. I think you should definitely cover scrolling, parallax, animations and maybe jumping on enemies heads though.

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  • 24 Sep, 2008
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  I'm not really sure because I've never used ActionScript. However, as far as I know, Flash has no hardware acceleration or DirectX support, so all those features (V-sync, performance, effects, motion-blur, etc etc...) probably aren't available.

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  • 24 Sep, 2008
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  Love the style! Looking forwards to this

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  • 24 Sep, 2008
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  You could try just setting the bullet's collision type to 'Point'. This means they only register a collision if their hot spot is overlapping something else.

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  • 24 Sep, 2008
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  The platform and physics behaviors aren't designed to be used together; they use completely different engines. What we need is some kind of 'physics platform' behavior, which combines the two.

  To enable physics collisions with another object, you have to give that object the Physics behavior as well. The physics engine only looks for other objects controlled by the physics engine to collide with.

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  • 23 Sep, 2008
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  Use the 'last channel autoplayed on' expression to get the channel, and set that channel's volume. Or, play it on a specific channel, like channel 1.

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  • 23 Sep, 2008
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  As suggested, most demos now have a .cap file up - should be able to get one for the raindemo up soon too.

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  • 23 Sep, 2008
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  Closed-source creations are better off in the 'Your creations' forum. If a developer doesn't want to tell people how they achieved an effect, I don't see a problem with that - but I don't think they should complain if people try to reproduce the effect and post their .caps for it. After all, someone could do the same once you've released it as a full game - or, if you're that worried about whether or not you're the first to use the effect, don't post the effect at all until release!

  Letting this one go for now, but please keep Uploads forum open-source .cap files.