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  • 1 Sep, 2008
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  one thing i did think though, surely instead of timedelta you can just have whatever constant you wanted?? - then you could change it whenever...

  Set the timer FPS to 1, and timedelta will return whatever the time scale is.

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  Thats the path for XP... are you on Vista?

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  • 1 Sep, 2008
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  ^yeah I assumed that override timedelta would give 1/monitor refresh rate, so like 1/60 if your monitor is 60hz etc

  Heh, if you want that put on V-sync and turn off the override...

  I brought this up before, but to bring it up where it should be, I'd like to be able to set the time override during run time.

  Set the timer FPS to 1, and timedelta will return whatever the time scale is.

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  • 31 Aug, 2008
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  Try putting on motion blur, and it looks so very smooth

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  • 31 Aug, 2008
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  I'd quite like to be able to define my own functions like faggatron(x)=sin(x*29+x^2)+7*cos(x)

  Use the Function Object. You could define Function.MyFunc(x) to mean that.

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  • 31 Aug, 2008
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  Well... hopefully this works, give it a try and let me know if it does what you want.

  http://www.scirra.com/files/pre0972runtimes.zip

  Extract to Data directory.

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  • 31 Aug, 2008
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  Oh, and I can send you an updated runtime if you're desperate to try this out.

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  • 31 Aug, 2008
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  If you open

  C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Scirra\Construct.ini

  And change the line that reads

  UpdateCheck=1

  to

  UpdateCheck=0

  That will turn off auto update checking. If that fixes it, then we know its definitely the update checker

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  Ah, there was actually a bug in the On Advanced Overlap code! That's why it wasn't working as expected at first... the fix will be in the next build, which will be 0.97.2, which won't be as long as the last build hopefully.

  Now your event, if you leave as-is, will always pick A, which picks the B in its container as well. That's going to make any events referring to B refer to the B in the same container as A.

  You can work around this by splitting up your event. With my fix applied ( ) the following works successfully as I think you want: the overlapping A/B objects rotate.

  + A (pick) and B (don't pick) overlap

  -> A: rotate 10 degrees

  + A (don't pick) and B (pick) overlap

  -> B: rotate 10 degrees

  If you do it in one event, B refers to the one in the container as the picked A. By using separate events, you can pluck out just the one instance that is overlapping and get around the containers that way. That should satisfy your needs... I hope!

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  Sprite('Variable A') / Sprite('Variable B')

  If that doesn't solve your problem, you are going to have to explain your problem in more detail.

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  Hotfix should be live now... seems to be OK... hopefully that'll work - it should fix both your files.

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  The files have to be PCM WAVs.

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  There is a problem with the particles object in this build. A hotfix should be coming right up. This is the cause of the problems in both files you sent me, faggatron and linkman.

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  • 31 Aug, 2008
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  When I last really tried Vista - which was some time ago - I wasn't keen on it. The interface and all is nice and snazzy and new, and you can turn off the annoying UAC, but even then I found even trivial file operations (copy/paste a 1kb text file) taking upwards of 30 seconds. It also seemed to permanently be accessing the hard drive, which I know is by design and it may be indexing all drives, but it never stopped and overall I just felt the whole experience was slow and frustrating. Context menus, folders etc. all seemed to take an age to appear.

  Perhaps things are all much better now - I don't know - but I'm happy with XP.

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  • 31 Aug, 2008
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  Use an external .wav file, and use the Autoplay file action. Or, add the file as a resource, and play it using the Autoplay Resource action.