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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  The third parameter to Find is the index at which to start searching, but the expression validator accepts a string (eg. "55") but "dude!" will be converted to 0 so it doesn't do what you think... a bit dubious design on my part perhaps. Use a function or condition alias to search for several words at once, maybe.

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  There's no point beating around the bush, so I added Set Visible to edit for 0.95. I think I'll put together a quick wiki article on the Function object - it's got some funky features, like Condition Aliasing too.

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  They shouldn't do, each turret is storing an independent timer. Can you make an example .cap?

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Yeah, I guess proper documentation would help :-\</p>

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  Draw Carey is right, there's a world size limit in the Physics behaviour which is about 4000x4000. Tweaking the World X Scale and World Y Scale parameters might help... but I think soon Physics needs a make-over, maybe with one of the new 2D physics engines...

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  • 24 Apr, 2008
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  That's right, example usage could be:

  + On function "SumParameters"

  : Set return value: Function.Param(1) + Function.Param(2) + Function.Param(3) (ie. the sum of the first 3 parameters)

  + Start of layout

  : Set edit text to Function.SumParameters(100, 5, 2)

  Function.SumParameters(100, 5, 2) would return 107 - the sum of the parameters.

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  • 23 Apr, 2008
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  Switch to the event sheet editor (via the tabs at the bottom) and the event tab enables. You can also double click a space in the event sheet editor to insert an event.

  Would highly recommend you do make an effort to complete a tutorial before asking questions.

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  • 23 Apr, 2008
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  I don't. Why does it have to 'process download request' for every file? If you type in scirra.com/files/file.blah, it doesn't have to 'process download request' and up to 30 seconds later let you start downloading... I guess they just make sure you have time to see the ads, which is fair enough since it's a free service Apart from that, tis a handy site. Wouldn't use it over my ISP's free FTP space though.

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  • 23 Apr, 2008
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  Wow, that looks great

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  • 23 Apr, 2008
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  It's already on the wiki article but I thought I'd post it here because... well... it looks good

  http://www.scirra.com/files/bumpmapping.cap

  Requires 0.94.3.

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  • 23 Apr, 2008
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  From Bumpmapping:

  [quote:367j6rha]...normal maps cannot be rotated, since the 3D data is only valid for an angle of 0 degrees. If you want to apply bumpmapping to a rotating object, you can only use heightmapping.

  i.e. use a height map and the Heightmapping shader for rotating lighting.

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  • 23 Apr, 2008
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  The [Bot]s are just Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. crawling the web for their search indexes - they were there before as anonymous users, but phpbb3 recognises them now.

  I don't know how to rename each page to a .html - besides, doing that can trick google in to using more of your bandwidth than it ought to.

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  • 23 Apr, 2008
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  This reminds me of an undocumented feature in the Function object. The expression:

  Function.MyCustomFunction(2, 7, "Hello")

  will trigger On Function "MyCustomFunction" whenever it comes to be evaluated, with whichever parameters you passed. Does this do the trick?

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  • 23 Apr, 2008
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  What, like the Audio Converter object?

  It lists PCM (WAV) and MPEG Layer 3 (MP3) in codecs for me so I guess it can convert between MP3 and WAV...

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  • 22 Apr, 2008
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  I don't think any physics engine has pixel perfect collision.