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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 15 Mar, 2023
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  A common mistake is to have a layer with an opaque background above another layer that you are editing, which would look like that.

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  • 14 Mar, 2023
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  That's really weird. Yeah, C3 is only a PWA. It's not available as a Chrome app. I would guess there's some weird Chrome bug happening.

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  • 14 Mar, 2023
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  Yeah, technically there's an API for it, but I'm pretty sure it would totally trash performance. I think some drivers even internally create an entirely new texture if you change the sampler option so it would cause a severe performance hit. The only good way to do it is with separate samplers, and further, currently all the rendering code works on the assumption the same sampling is used project-wide, because that's the only thing that's ever been supported so far.

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  • 14 Mar, 2023
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  I'm afraid it's impossible to help without more information. Try sharing your project file. If you think there's a problem in Construct, please file an issue following all the guidelines.

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  • 14 Mar, 2023
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  I'm running Chrome 111 on Windows here and the 'Install as app' option seems to still be working fine for me. An existing installed app is still working, and if I uninstall it and reinstall it, that seems to be working fine too.

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  • 14 Mar, 2023
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  This isn't actually possible with WebGL 1, which still has some usage, and I suspect it would involve some fairly complicated updates to the renderer, so I doubt it's a simple change.

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  • 14 Mar, 2023
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  Check which event sheets all the layouts involved use. If a layout does not use an event sheet with a trigger on it, either directly or by event sheet includes, then that trigger won't fire.

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  • 14 Mar, 2023

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  • 10 Mar, 2023
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  Please report any problems to our issue tracker following all the guidelines - generally it is impossible to help without all the information we ask for in the issue report.

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  • 7 Mar, 2023
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  Answer your own performance questions with measurements

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  • 6 Mar, 2023
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  It depends what enemies is in your code. If it's a family it won't work, because opacity is a property of object instances, not entire families.

  I would advise taking the Learn JavaScript in Construct tutorial series, and in particular part 11 which covers this area.

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  • 3 Mar, 2023
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  Try turning off hardware acceleration in Chrome's settings.

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  • 2 Mar, 2023
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  I don't think it's possible to add an "On update not found" trigger, as if you work offline, it's not able to establish if there is an update available or not. I would suggest to just start the game normally and notify about an update if one is found.

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  • 2 Mar, 2023
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  If you look in the documentation, the getInstanceByUid() method is only available on runtime.

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  • 2 Mar, 2023
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  Browsers don't really support synchronous network requests. There is too high a chance that it would cause the page to hang and interrupt the user experience. (There is synchronous XHR but I am sure browser makers would get rid of it if the backwards compatibility wasn't such a problem.)

  My advice is just do it asynchronously.