David's Forum Posts

  • If its events you might be able to speed things up by using conditions which only pick objects that are on the screen or within range of the player. However perhaps theres a particular area in the events when is demanding on the cpu, like nested for each object loops...

    You say you have over a thousand objects...are they all scenery or are some particles and stuff? Maybe if you're able to send the cap file we could have a look over it.

  • Your title screen is already really awesome! However it is a little static and some objects fading in and out or moving around never hurts

  • I dont think it matters if you pay money for game making software, as long as you have some fun and get some use out of it, it doesnt matter if what you create is awesome or not. And there's a great feeling when you share your creation with other people and you see their responses!

    Oh and that video is very pretty!

  • Another level

    4,436,475,174,83,349,4,517,433,121,58,300,4,555,378,145,69,285,1,112,464,139,122,352,4,431,519,246,118,328,1,220,502,191,168,327,4,457,540,236,113,305,1,85,548,193,170,10,4,283,515,263,126,334,1,167,575,166,146,339,4,304,567,368,176,331,1,292,556,164,145,311,4,337,576,282,135,356,1,323,488,131,115,303,4,214,519,410,197,356,2,181,443,254,114,357,4,71,574,540,259,5,2,45,450,174,78,320,4,155,577,504,242,179,2,324,446,160,72,0,4,388,470,304,146,4,3,447,440,164,80,3,5,415,479,254,152,346,3,511,397,265,130,303,5,332,532,303,181,351,3,540,300,173,84,216,5,217,562,324,194,172,3,440,185,214,105,246,4,264,458,206,99,359,4,175,457,230,110,356,2,422,86,117,52,297,2,484,95,144,65,48,5,425,87,124,74,290,2,546,202,199,90,46,4,740,269,82,39,43,2,632,337,214,96,51,2,695,355,239,108,276,2,753,283,119,53,38,2,603,570,164,74,33,3,624,461,213,104,124,3,651,432,246,120,134,2,696,400,168,76,100,2,647,459,132,59,141,1,644,410,111,98,108,1,587,412,104,91,318,1,597,364,73,64,304,1,530,484,90,79,303,1,554,456,69,61,313,1,519,220,98,86,278,1,496,171,42,37,250,1,496,186,66,58,264,1,469,133,62,54,268,1,455,96,60,53,275,1,486,144,64,56,278,1,425,588,140,123,292,1,385,514,111,98,293,1,418,515,147,130,320,1,492,579,194,171,293,1,563,580,86,76,321,1,430,533,172,152,354,1,368,565,142,125,322,1,368,511,123,108,296,1,592,597,66,58,354,2,202,82,202,91,99,2,125,198,215,97,122,2,36,277,172,77,135,1,127,77,157,138,67,1,170,14,130,114,71,1,33,159,185,163,27,1,98,148,140,123,45,1,44,36,172,152,52,1,37,91,158,139,48,1,95,18,143,126,41,1,19,229,123,108,58,[/code:1we3x0ji]

  • Okay I made an editor. It can load and save files to and from clipboard. Heres a level

    4,285,484,311,149,355,4,488,487,320,153,348,4,479,458,295,141,347,1,109,218,256,226,47,4,175,398,201,96,74,1,70,333,232,205,54,4,177,448,260,125,34,1,234,-20,22,19,180,4,147,502,379,182,16,1,58,503,337,298,16,4,72,547,509,244,3,1,214,554,230,203,17,4,209,211,130,62,90,1,337,557,235,207,9,4,193,295,148,71,93,1,486,566,284,251,355,5,218,454,189,113,352,1,644,542,223,197,10,5,142,469,214,128,348,1,765,567,110,97,20,5,418,457,166,99,346,1,708,579,269,237,5,5,328,458,195,116,345,2,294,481,325,147,353,5,126,517,307,183,344,2,484,477,280,126,344,4,17,133,145,69,326,2,685,490,296,133,8,2,160,393,190,86,67,2,190,252,222,100,92,2,140,136,195,88,19,2,31,132,161,72,318,1,39,214,168,148,333,
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To use the editor, use your numberpad and hit a number between 1 and 5. Then click and drag...you'll work it out

  • See source code of constructs layout editor

  • Hmm probably wasted a good half hour heh...

    I been playing around trying out different styles for drawing ground and grass and stuff

    I recorded a video

    http://www.fileshack.us/get_file.php?id ... hstyle.rar

    Thats not the graphic I ended up using, but its kinda similar except I made my brush textured

    But yeah being able to independantly rotate,scale and tint each instance of a sprite in the layout editor makes making these kind of levels really easy! It would be a real headache if Construct limited you to have the same size and angle for every instance!

    The level itself in this mockup took me only about 10 minutes to assemble.

  • As for elipses and polygons, as the canvas object can draw any object into itself, its more likely we'll create a polygon plugin separately (so we can get vector graphics and all that pwetty stuff)

  • 1 - Make a sprite and draw a big white circle

    2 - Give the sprite the 'erase' effect

    3 - Give the sprite mouse movement

    4 - add a canvas object and load some random image off your computer

    5 - add an event 'always - paste sprite into canvas'

    Now run it and you have an eraser on your canvas

    Try adding a gradient or something behind the canvas, and you will see the background appear through the image.

  • I drew some graphics myself and did the same thing as the creator of braid did (feature the edges of the tiles, but with erasor) and the result is pretty good

    <img src="http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8655/screenshotwi4.jpg">

  • I recently bought a game on Xbox live called Braid. Its a platform game that lets you control time and its the greatest platformer game I've ever played. The gameplay is unique with how time can fast forward and rewind, and some objects are time independent etc etc. I have no idea how the guy programmed it... but what was truely captivating is the artwork!

    <img src="http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6552/braidpi6.jpg">

    Anyway I found an article about how the guy creates this kind of artwork, and it looks like its just sprites of rocks, grass, dirt, etc....and each bit of scenery is scaled and rotated and placed in the level, and with these building blocks he forms the levels.

    The result is you dont get level that look like they are made of tiles, instead the level is like a painting...and thats the look Braid was going for.

    Anyway heres a link to the article

    http://www.davidhellman.net/blog/the-ar ... id-part-3/

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  • btw I made a nice little macro in photoshop that really aids with inking pictures. It simply strokes the workpath, and then deletes it, and I assigned F12 for it.

    Then when I outline a scanned picture I use the pen tool and hit F12 when I need to start a new line. It works really well for me and leaves my images looking smooth and all natural! It gets rid of those nasty wrinkles I get when I try to draw with the mouse, and no longer causes me headaches when I try to use shape layers and stuff. However it means your image isn't vector, but if you just want to work in pixels it works fine. Saves me lots of time anyway

    I've attached the macro if your interested but are too lazy to record it yourself.

  • aha! It happens when an images width and height are not the same!

    int firstVisCol = (scrollx - info.x) / (size.cx);
int firstVisRow = (scrolly - info.y) / (size.cx);
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Well thats rather embarressing   

We accidentally used the width where we were ment to use the height...a 1 letter change fix!

  • Yeah I'm quite experienced with the pen tool because I use it at work to clip out cars...and i've clips hundreds...but it takes people a while to get the hang of it...I thought this might be an easy way for people to produce smooth brush strokes...I guess not heh

  • Ah thats like what the pen tool in photoshop does right?

    I should probably try out illustrator some day because I think its designed so when you draw with a pen tool you see the stroke of the brush instantly and can adjust it afterwards....hmm...