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  • 26 Dec, 2007
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  I'm not sure what you're trying to do exactly... but masking may help. If you create a separate layer and place a tiled background, some Sprites with a Mask effect, and set the layer opacity to 99% (a hack for another feature I need to implement) - then the Sprites will cut shapes out of the tiled background. Does this help what you want to do?

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  • 26 Dec, 2007
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  Thanks for trying it out, interesting to know Construct's compatibility. Well I guess since Macs dont have DirectX (they use OpenGL right?) then its DirectX implementation just isn't good enough. It's not really our fault. If it works on windows then a decent virtual-windows should run it too, but you have to give them credit due to the difficulty of writing a virtual machine.

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  • 26 Dec, 2007
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  A little late, but happy holidays everyone, hope you had a good christmas etc if you're in to that kind of thing <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" />

  Cheers!

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  • 24 Dec, 2007
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  Yeah, putting the DLL in the same directory could work, but its absence could also be a sign DirectX 9 is simply not installed, which is why it prompts to download the latest DirectX. If you have DirectX 9 but just havent updated it, placing d3dx9_30.dll may work.

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  • 24 Dec, 2007
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  Excellent, a great video alternative to the ghost shooter tutorial <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /> Nice work! You sound a bit like one of my university lecturers, by the way <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" />

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  • 23 Dec, 2007
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  I don't see why not. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

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  • 23 Dec, 2007
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  This topic is now obsolete, preserved for the ideas in it. Please post new feature requests to the Construct Discussion forum. Thanks!

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  • 23 Dec, 2007
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  The Play MP3 action uses Directshow, which is the same thing Windows Media Player uses to play MP3s.

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  • 23 Dec, 2007
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  Confirmed, will try fix. Thanks for the report.

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  • 23 Dec, 2007
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  Yeah, if it's commercial I think you do, a quick google crops up http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/ - I think its only once you sell 3000 copies or something though. And after that, 75c per unit isn't a big deal if you're commercial.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 22 Dec, 2007
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  I need to know of every crash that happens! If you get a crash that happens once while clicking a button, say, don't just ignore it and say "it crashed loads", I need to know to have any chance of fixing it! Even if it's as vague as when a button is clicked, I can check the code that handles the button click and try and improve it...

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  • 22 Dec, 2007
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  Are you using the Physics movement to move the boxes? Or a custom system? How is it all set up? I mean if you have gravity you could just stop all horizontal movement and the boxes will fall straight down.

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  • 22 Dec, 2007
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  deadeye is right, you should use a tall layout rather than trying to push things a long way off the layout upwards. Also, DirectSound can play any formats Windows Media Player can, so not just MP3 but if you have the filters for it OGG and such. But remember all your end users would need the Windows Media Player OGG filters if you did something like that.

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  • 22 Dec, 2007
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  In 0.87 you can sort the layouts - drag them in the project bar!

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  • 22 Dec, 2007
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  It's possible, yeah, no reason why not. It's at the end of a long todo list though.