Blinx123's Forum Posts

  • Anyone used the Desura API yet? As far as I understand it, it's a simple REST based system? Is this correct? In this case, it would probably be rather easy to include it with one's Construct 2 creation.

  • I'm designing a small game in which a ball moves on top of disappearing platforms. When a ball is on top of the platform and the platform disappears, I let the game trigger the following event:

    Player - is overlapping platform => Restart layout

    - Platform is invisible

    Problem is. The same event is triggered whenever even a single pixel "hits" the invisible platform. Is there any way I can restrict this behaviour to something akin to "30% is player is overlapping platform"?

  • To my surprise, I managed to create one single translucent shadow (unfortunately, I forgot to take a snapshot). Ever since then, all future shadows are just black.

    How can one alter the opacity of a shadow? Is it solely dependent on the colour of the shadow caster sprite?

    EDIT: Setting the character sprite to XOR (which made it disappear, kinda), I was able to recreate the effect.

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    http://s7.directupload.net/images/140604/eyiyan44.png[/img]

    Is there a way to force all shadows to look like the one on the right, without sacrificing the character sprite?

    EDIT2: More importantly. How do I get WebGL enabled browsers to display those translucent shadows? They only show up in Firefox, as long as WebGL is disabled.

    EDIT3: Never mind. I missed the opacity option inside the shadow light's menu. Working now. Alas, still a bit blocky.

  • Finally got around to testing this on my Mac.

    Using Wineskin and Wine 1.7.16, the application crashes as soon as I try to create a new project or open an existing one.

    On the first run, it also kept telling me that my GPU drivers appear to be two years old (strangely, I never had this happen on my Linux box).

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  • Once and if you got it ready, will you be able to write an .app or .dmg file from it, so that people can install it on their Macs without using Wine or VirtualEnvironments?

    Just curious

    Not really (someone would need to have either access to the full source or find a way to reverse engineer the whole thing*).

    But we could probably provide fully integrated wrappers, so no one would have to go through the pain of finding a wine version that works and setting it up manually. If that's ok with Scirra, that is.

    *Legal in most countries but the US ('cept for Chinese Wall Reverse Engineering. Which is legal there, as well). Notwithstanding the fact that you'd, in all likelyhood, piss Ashley/Tom off. Something I'd consider much worse than breaking a bunch of silly laws. But that's just me.

  • I think I finally understand what you're trying to do, septeven.

    Until now, I assumed you were trying to access the preview directly (which would presume a browser running inside the wine prefix).

    It might have something to do with the way wine handles networking. I'll look into it, once I've got more time (possibly on or after the weekend).

  • Got a Mac today (Mavericks freaking rocks. Even though it's dully lacking in the cat department )

    I'll be able to test Construct 2 on two different Unices now.

    What really interests me, btw. Will we be able to create and distribute wrappers or would this be against the EULA, Ashley?

    My idea is to create a multiphase installer for both systems (will have to look into how to do this on Mac OS X, of course).

    Essentially, it would dump all necessary files in a prefix called "Construct 2" or "Construct 2 <version number>" then asks whether the user wants to activate a paid license key. If that's the case, the installer will prompt for a license file which, once provided, will be copied right into the correct wine directory.

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  • Depends on your definition of an emulator.

    If what you're actually talking about is a hypervisor, sure. It should run rather nicely under Parallels.

    If, however, you're talking about something like Wine (short for Wine Is Not an Emulator), the answer sadly is no.

  • Actually, I just realized I don't know how to write out the config file. Seems like wine.conf has been deprecated a long time ago.

    Anyways. What I did to get where I'm now was rather straight forward. 

    env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winetricks dotnet20 gdiplus mono210 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010

env WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine construct2-r163-setup.exe
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There's that distinct chance, I'm missing some libraries. Furthermore, my wine is a tad old (version 1.4.1).

  • septeven

    Sure. Which one? x32, x64?

    Beaverlicious

    More like POSIX compliance should be the top priority. If it was more standards compliant and steered away from using too many Microsoft specific libraries, we would already be half way to a native port that could be used by creative people, rather than Windows users

    EDIT: Here's a screencap from my almost finished AGS port, in case anyone is interested.

    All that is left is a small, graphical installer (was going to use either Shellscript and Zenity or wxwidgets and Haskell for that) that automagically creates all files necessary to run the program and, perhaps, also contains a statically linked version of wine (not sure if that last part would work too well, though).

    Was hoping to do the same for Construct 2, once the last issues are resolved.

  • Well. At the very least, it could be said that it's partly your responsibility.

    After all, it's also crashing under Windows 7 x64 (the Tetris.capx I found in the Arcade doesn't ever open on my PC, but works splendidly on two older PCs with graphics drivers that date back to 2006).

    IMHO your GUI implementation is somewhat flawed (whichever library you use. Windows Forms, supposedly?), as I don't know too many applications being this prone to crash. In fact, I recently ported Adventure Game Studio to Ubuntu (writing a Wine wrapper + installer) and it runs splendidly and without any error.

  • Just checked out Construct 2 R163 and it's almost working under Wine (Ubuntu 13.04) now.

    Performance is fine and Node-Webkit preview should be easy enough to get working (I'm thinking cron + native Linux node-webkit).

    The one thing that still always crashes the whole application is opening a project. It's also prone to crash during this process under Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

    Is there anything that can be done about it? Some sort of hot swapping perhaps? In which case I'd manually input the whole project structure, rather than loading the project through the file menu?

  • Just hit a roadblock.

    Created some tidy little scripts to handle stuff like project folder/file creation, SVN updates and commits, spritesheet creation, etc. They work great on their own. Unfortunately, I can't get them bound inside my project.

    The Node Webkit "run" command works somewhat decent under Windows, but doesn't really seem to do anything for MacOSX and Linux.

    I already simplified the whole process down to a simple shc compiled "mkdir" script, but that one won't execute either. Already tried all sorts of absolute and relative paths.

    What exactly does the C2 implementation do differently from the default Node Webkit child_process command?

    EDIT: Ok. Build a small application with a textbox and a call to the filemanager and figured the correct pathing this way. Turned out, I also forgot to tell mkdir the directory it was supposed to create a folder in.

  • My current project depends on a couple shell tools and applications written in C.

    Unfortunately, I have yet to figure out how to use the NodeWebkit plugin's run command in an OS other than Windows.

    Is there a way to do this, at all? Thus far, I've tried

    • absolute paths ("home/user/nodetest/linux32/test")
    • relative paths (/test)
    • absolute paths set through the use of a variable (NodeWebkit.AppFolder & "/test")

    The script I'm testing this with is an shc "compiled" shell script that basically places a folder called "Test" inside of the app folder (mkdir Test)

    EDIT: Just tried with a graphical script based on Zenity. This one works spendidly, although mkdir doesn't work here either. Are there some sort of file system limitations keeping me from executing commands like mkdir and other coreutils? Since zenity works, it can't be a pathing issue.

    EDIT2: Forgot to set the path mkdir is supposed to be executed in. Got it working now.

    No need to switch my engine to OpenFL just yet.