BadMario's Forum Posts

  • don't use image points, just use offset from what would be mouse position

    With mouse player position is Mouse.X and Mouse.Y with Touch, set it to Touch.X + or - offset, same for Y position

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  • What are you using to launch your projectiles?

    I have games with physics, always use independent frame rate setting and launching things with set velocity ( x and y ) produces consistent results. Tested on PCs, phones, different refresh rate monitor and with Construct 3s unlimited frame rate setting. Seems to work fine in all these tests.

    The only "trick" I use is to set linear damping to 0 then once a projectile hits something set it to 1 or whatever to slow it down gradually

    Give it a try

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  • You can have only 15 - 20 instances of the same object and a game that will slow to a crawl if these instances overlap each other.

    And it may happen when exporting using runtime 3 and/or webworkers, then works fine if exported without webworkers and/or using reuntime 2.

    Don't ask me why , but it is true. My workaround was to change the collision detection method and it worked fine.

  • You could also just open all your Construct 2 project in Construct 3 right now and save as Construct 3 files, just in case future versions break something. That way you have your original v2 files and v3 files just in case.

  • You can just specify if no key is down play idle and the rest is obvious I guess.

    You can have else if type of thing.

    Do your first action ( If key LEFT is down for example )

    Then add else below that, then add another condition in the same event ( If RIGHT is down )

    then finally add another else below that without any other conditions where you add play idle animation

  • You could probably run a for each square loop

    set global variable squarecount, then for each square if overlapping circle add 1 to that variable, so you should get exactly how many are overlapping.

    Don't forget to reset thev ariable to 0 before the loop, otherwise it will just keep adding up

  • Don't physics ( if set to frame rate independent ) already use dt, as do all behaviors, so if you add your own dt that just messes with physics.

    And you really have no options other than using v-sync. The other ones are there just for testing ( to make sure game will run roughly the same on different monitors/systems.

    You have to export the final game using v-sync

  • When I say wipe out everything, I meant everything in the game folder, not my browser cache.

    Overwrites will happen only if there is exactly the same number of files and with same names

    I do this because Construct creates sprite sheets and gives them names without my input. It is possible that a different export will have more,fewer and/or differently named sprite sheets, so if your javascript files do not all update you get code pointing to a sprite sheet that is still there from the old version and a screen that makes no sense ( random sprites all over the place )

    So just to be safe, delete everything, then opload the new export

  • I've been wiping everything before uploading a new version. I guess because of the way sprite sheets are generated they may be different in different exports while retaining the same file name. In that case things will look messed up ( Code pointing to images on a sprite sheet that now in the new version does not contain those same images, or in the same order.

    So, I really don't see a solution, if you really want to be sure everything works, other than having them download everything again with each new export. This should make sure all sprite sheets are correct and they will not lose any data saved in local storage since they are not clearing their cache.

    Of course they still may have to refresh the page once in a while.

  • Global variable, call it score and set it to your score/number.

    Then have an event, when score= or greater than 3000 go to next level.

    Since score is global it will retain its value/stay the same

    I guess moving platforms are unfortunatelly a no go with jumpthrough platforms.

    My default speed is 60*dt, then speed up to 240^dt and it worked perfectly fine on my PC while developing and testing in Construct 2.

    Seems that Construct 3 has a problem with it. So, since it will be exported w Construct 3 I had to rework the mechanics and use solids.

    Are you using solids or jumpthrough ( from the title seems latter )?

    I spent about 3 days dealing with this, in the end I decided to not use jumpthrough and use solids and when I need to drop down ( press Down arrow ) from the platform solid behavior is disabled for that platform, also any platforms above the player have their solid behavior disabled so he will not bump into them when jumping from another platform below that one.

    It actually worked fine on my PC, but testing on a phone and another PC, player would just fall through often. Even when movin platforms at 60*dt which is pretty slow.

    Also, Construct 2 export ( from Construct 2 seems to handle it much better )

  • Being slightly paranoid has its benefits I guess. I have not run into this bug, but whenever I want to do something like that ( open another project to copy/paste or delete stuff and take a screenshot ) I open an older version of that project.

    You never know, software may screw up or I may screw up and do something I don't wanna do

  • There is definitely a problem here.

    No matter how much testing you do it is impossible to test all configurations out there.

    My experience with these forced updates.

    1. Lost the ability to use desktop version

    2. Lost the ability to use versions after r210 ( web ), then got it to work , only to be screwed by another auto update.

    3. Changes to minifying broke a bunch of 3rd party addons ( according to other customers,) I only use my clients' addons so in my case I could not use advanced minify only.

    All this takes time to fix on my side and nobody is paying me for the time it takes to fix these problems that are being forced upon me and could be avoided by a simple choice of whether to update or not.

    Especially great when it autoupdates when I open it to export a final version just before a deadline.