David's Forum Posts

  • Stiffness was something the newton physics engine required for hinges, but the box2d physics doesn't need it. I should have removed the parameter...but then I was thinking it might be fun to allow a param for the breaking force of the hinge, so if a table hinged together is thrown it would snap...or a rag doll's bones could snap, etc

  • Man I cant get anything to work...I have a DVD which has Corel Painter and Photoshop Elements on it, and it says its for Windows and Mac....I put the DVD in and nothing happens....so I took the stuff off the CD and put it onto a thumbdrive (using windows) and the thumb drive works but theres no file to double click that mac seems to recognise. On windows executable files are called exe...what are they called on a mac because the exe is an unrecognised format...

    I wonder if I should buy 10.5.5 for the mac and install it...or are apples different and the only way to upgrade is to throw it away and buy a new one?

  • I agree that the best way to promote construct is with games. If people play a couple of awesome games and see a little 'made with construct' logo in the credits they might be curious to see what it is. Then maybe write a 'make a 2d game' article and publish it in a PC magazine...an Australian magazine called PC User once ran a couple of issues showing people how to create a game in The Games Factory. But really I feel games would be most effective, and theres quite a lot of interesting games in development that I've seen appear around in the forum so I think we'll all be fine

  • I dont think so...man apparently my cintiq 12WX doesn't work on the OS thats on this machine Apparently I need OS 10.3.9 +, and mines 10.2.5...I thought...oh okay...i'll just check to see if theres any updates...the latest version is 10.5.5...so I'm thinking cool....but its a completely differet operating system :S

    Apparently 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 are all separate products called Tiger, Pander, Platapus, Whatever...I mean I thought traditionally a new product was defined by the number at the start! There are fairly significant differences between the operating systems too...why not just call them 10, 11, 12, etc....

    Anyway whats weird is the wacom tablet installs fine, and the screen displays fine, but the driver for the tablets usb interface doesn't seem to work, and when I run the 'setup' program it tells me I haven't got my Cintiq12WX connected :/ The tablet kind of functions like a touch pad...except with a pen instead of your finger..meh nm

  • heh sorry I shouldn't diss the device so much, I'm just having trouble at the moment installing drivers for my WACOM tablet...and the dvd i have of photoshop elements is refusing to run....everything else is fine but the one thing I wanted it to do it doesn't seem to want to do!

    I remember some quote about apples being : ' i dont really feel I'm using the apple because I'm not in control...I prefer to think of it as...I'm sharing an experience'

    I'm sure once I get this thing running I'll be happy and will be all supportive of apples...but in the meantime its so fustrating!

    When I get this working I promise I'll get back to coding construct

  • haha this is hillarious....the mouse for the apple has no right button and no scrollbar...apparently because its simplier to just do things with one click....fair enough right...BUT WRONG...I HOOKED UP A WINDOWS MOUSE AND OMG OSX SUPPORTS RIGHT CLICKING AND MOUSE WHEEL SCROLLING!

    Sorry about the capital letters but that just seems so stupid! Its like the programmers of the operating system knew that people would want a right click button but one of the sales reps said 'NO! NO RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON! here give me the skrew driver *snap* see...its a mouse with just a left click! Isn't it brilliant!'

    I wonder if the mirror on the apples drives is so you can put on your makeup without leaving the computer....

  • Okay turns out theres a button on the keyboard which opens the CD tray. However, I put my DVD which has photoshop elements (came with waacom tablet) and the DVD goes into the tray and nothing happens...I tested a music CD and a DVD of black books...they worked...sigh...damn apples!

  • I'm a windows user through and through but today the IT guy at work gave me apple! I work at a newspaper creating adverts, and one of the partner businesses were switching from apples to windows ( ) and wanted him to get rid of the apples, and suggest that he distribute them to any workers that were interested. Anyway he gave me a Power Book G4 MDD.

    <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/PowerMac_G4_MDD.jpg/150px-PowerMac_G4_MDD.jpg">

    which i'm hell stoked about! Judging by the 60 Gig HD and an article on wikipedia I've concluded its the Dual 867MHz PowerPC G4.

    Anyway despite being an old computer (and the lowest spec one of its model heh) its quite cool and awesome to use..currently I am trying to install WACOM drivers and stuff onto it so I can use it to do artwork.

    However I have a problem...how do I open the friggin CD tray? Theres no button on the CD tray...instead when I look on the CD drive for a button all I see is a stupid ugly confused face in the mirror :/

  • The action script only allows for a single point 'hit test' so if you make a game in flash you tend to have to write your own collision system, or making a function which tests mutliple points..though some people have somehow written entire physics engines with action script.....

    Anyway action script is script, and I think its based of C, so its harder to use but does give you more control. However constructs event system allows for loops, functions, and recursive functions, so its probably better ask the question is it easier to do a in actionscript or a in Construct

  • lol no worries thats the purpose of events! I was just saying that it could potentially be a 1 event example...I have an obsession with 1 event examples

  • Nice example, despite being images from google it looks really nice! But whats most genious is how simply you programmed it! I mean the first event is just coz your too lazy to order stuff correctly in the layout editor So really its a 1 event example!

  • Some suggestions:

    1 - In event 3 add an action that sets the tyre marks opacity to car[Car].Speed/5.

    This will stop the tire tracks becoming really dark when your car is driving slowly

    2 - Add an event 'every 400 milliseconds' - 'set opacity of car_tyres to .opacity - 1

    Add an event 'car_tyres opacity is equal to 0' - destroy car_tyres.

    Ths will make the car tyres fade away slowly.

    And yeah the headlights are awesome

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  • Also I noticed the explosion one isn't time independant, if I run it at unlimited fps it appears and disappears really fast...but between 60 and 80fps the difference isn't noticable...the only reason you might want to consider timedelta in that is if you wanted add slow motion to your game.

    However, some ways you can speed up the explosion:

    1 - Remove the tint plus effect from Sprite22 and use a yellow filter instead

    2 - Remove tint plus effect from layer 'exp' because it has no effect

    Just my 2 cents anyway

  • Thanks for sharing these effects, this way everybody learns I noticed the arms on the creature in your slime cap are a bit weird in that they kinda flicker about and fast movements cause the arm to do funny things for about 1 or 2 frames before fixing themselves up. I believe this was due to the order of actions (like you position object b in relation to a, and then position a to a different spot). Anyway I reordered the actions to fix that....however just disregard this cap if you were happy with how the arms moved before.

  • Yeah the drop shadow pixel shader was more a proof of concept, its a lot better to use the drop shadow object or to take the image of your sprite, blur it, blacken it, and make a second sprite and use that as a drop shadow.