DialgaBrite's Forum Posts

  • You've got "Game" layer property 'Transparent' set to 'No'. Set it to 'Yes'.

    Omg, total thank you man. I would have sworn I checked every little thing, including the transparency. But I was only focused on the background layer, not the game layer, which I paid no mind at all. In fact, I had even considered not including it in the screenshots here, because I subconsciously thought it was irrelevant. Thank god I still did include it. <3

  • Can somebody please explain what is going on here? I created a new layout and added a second layer. all the settings for both the layout and the layer seem to be exactly the same as the ones created by or cloned from the construct platformer template. What could I possibly be doing wrong?

    Other observations:

    Changing the order of the two layers DOES change which one is above the layout and which one is not.

    Making a third layer will cause all layers except the top one to be behind the layout like this.

    Changing Z order within the layer does nothing. Switching objects to the other layer WILL change whether they are behind the layout or not. The problem is clearly the layer and not the object(s).

    Are you people really still discussing this after I had dropped it for weeks and not even visited the forum for a while? I pretty much don't even care about making games for the wii u anymore. and for the record, the game being discussed, which is called "Meloetta: Melody of Discord" was not actually the game I intended to port to the wii U. It is, in fact, made in Multimedia Fusion, so I CAN'T put it on the wii u, no matter what. It's just not possible... the only reason this game even came up was because nintendo asked me for the name of something I created in the past, and I said I cited that game. I know you are probably gonna say "well they will still see it and decide copyright is an issue" or something, and I am sure anything I make with Construct will have just as many copyrighted characters as it does. But as I said, I don't really wish to discuss it anymore, and I have pretty much just let this topic go, and want it to just die. And for the record, my game is actually SUPPORTING Sea Shepherd, just so you know. They are an animal rights activist group, they ought to appreciate the publicity.

    DialgaBrite I know one thing that throws me off a bit on your game is the mix of vector and pixel graphics. Some sprites are pixel art, some have smooth gradients and solid fills. Some sprites look to have a bit of edging around them like they were cut out but some bordering pixels were missed. Not that it is a bad thing to mix them, just that it may throw them off if they are trying to judge it as retro style pixel art.

    But I think a big one is probably the fact that you are using pokemon in your game. Nintendo owns pokemon trademark, copyright, etc... and protect it very forcefully. One of my friends left Microsoft to go be the lawyer for their pokemon group. I highly doubt they are going to allow someone to publish a pokemon game on their system. Regardless of if you want to talk about it or not, they own and protect it. They are not going to let someone else try to make money off of their IP.

    Wait a minute here... when did I ever say I would try to make money? All my games will be completely free. I just want them to be playable on the wii u. so many people ASSUME I want to make money on a professional level and it's getting really annoying.

    With that said, I want people to stop talking about it. I really wish people would stop saying things that I feel the need to respond to, despite not wanting to. I am going to wait several more months for nintendo to contact me, like jayderyu said, and in the meanwhile, I do not want to discuss copyright with any member of the scirra forum. AT ALL. If you comment on it further, your comment will not be welcome, and I will be very unhappy. my mom advises me that since it is a touchy subject, I should not get into arguments about it with people online. I try really really hard to take her advice, but it is really hard for me to when other people bring it up FIRST. So please. Not another peep about it, kay?

    Some one recently posted that Nintendo called them. I asked about how long it took. Apx 3 months. Also others thankfully chimed in too. They will get back to you in apx 2 to 6 months.... I'm still waiting

    I am just going to go with this, and ignore the post below it. I have no desire to get into arguments about copyright. thank you for the explanation, jayderyu.

    This is the game I cited: http://biancagames.com/meloetta.htm

    if they honestly don't think it has "quality", then I am really hurt. I was really happy with that game and several others liked it and anyone who thinks it's "bad" has poor tastes. Not to mention it's simply that person's opinion, given that not everyone thinks it's poor quality.

    Hello, I followed scirra's instructions as per how to apply to nintendo to get the Wii U plugin, I filled out nintendo's form, it's been about a month at least and they haven't responded to me or emailed me. Any idea why? What should I do?

  • hi, I would like to bump this to ask another question. What would happen if I were to remove the "is in preview" condition? Would the preview have a separate save file in a temp folder somewhere? or would it cause problems?

  • Referencing your first capx, before you press return there is one text2 object offscreen.

    When you press enter the first time another text2 object is created and 1 is added to it's paragraph variable. The first instance will still have a paragraph value of 0 since it wasn't picked when the add 1 action was run. It wasn't picked because when you create a text2 instance it becomes the only instance picked for the actions that follow.

    So now there are two instances of text2. One offscreen with a paragraph value of 0 and one on screen with a paragraph value of 1. Now after that when you press return a second time both of your events will run because one instance has a paragraph value of 0 and one has the value of 1.

    You could just move the text2 object instead of creating another and set it up like this:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/542 ... fixed.capx

    or this:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/542 ... ixed2.capx

    On a side note take a look at the 9patch object. With it you can reproduce the bigredtextbox object exactly using a much smaller image.

    that makes sense, thanks for explaining! <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

  • Oh sorry you're right. There is a z-order on every layer sorry about that. I haven't been using Construct 2 for very long so I mix z-order and layers up pretty frequently. Anyways on that layer the Red Box Sprite is always drawn first then you have the a Text objects drawn over the top. However you keep having Text objects drawn on top of each other, so if one has longer text than the other then you'll see it. Like in the case of your 'paragraph 2' message it's longer so when you have the Text object that has the 'paragraph 1' text created it is drawn on top only covering a portion of the 'paragraph 2' message below it.

    What do you mean I keep having text objects being drawn? There should only be one, and even when the problem was there, there was only one. I still have no clue what you are talking about.

  • Yes. Quite a few of the changes were un-necessary and very badly done. Oh I just thought of why the one problem was persisting due to repeated object creation. The first message 'paragraph 1' is being drawn on top of message 'paragraph 2! more text here!'. And that's because the Red Box Sprite is always drawn first on the bottom layer, because that's the layer you had it originally set to through that 'Every tick' Event. So the Red Box Sprite never get's drawn over the Text objects to provide a surface if you will on which to render a new Text object. But the Text Objects get drawn over each whenever they are created. So that's how you see the text of the longer message.

    Sorry, but I really didn't understand what you just said. The every tick action moves it to Z-order bottom of the same layer, not a different layer.

  • You're right — I was just trying to quickly fix DialgaBrite .capx and explain it. DialgaBrite, I didn't know that you were going to have multiple paragraphs. But if that is the case then yes you don't need the 'subtract 1 from paragraph'. As to why there was a problem creating objects every time, I'm not sure. I'd have to look back at your original .capx and look again. Sorry if I caused more confusion than help.

    I found the problem. It's creating the objects in the same event as where paragraph 1 is set. You fixed it by creating them at start of layout instead. I am still wondering though why this made a difference. Sorry if I seemed rude btw. I just thought a lot of your other changes were unneccessary.

  • http://biancagames.com/textbug3.capx

    this one is almost identical to the first, but it doesn't produce the problem. what gives? I really would like to understand what you did, — I took out the use of another layer as well as having a global value for "has pressed return", and also the "subtract 1 from paragraph". those clearly had nothing to do with it and were completely uneccessary. I also have no idea why you wanted to subtract when normally there will be more than two paragraphs and we will want to add.

    edit: added back in the "set to bottom of layer" every tick. that's not the problem either. Why did you change so much stuff unneccessarily?

    edit 2: the problem was creating the objects in the same event where I show paragraph 1. why?

  • DialgaBrite, one thing to take note of is that you can re-use a Text object to display text and you don't need to keep creating the Sprite. So I removed the repeated creation of your Sprite and Text object and put the Text on Layer1 and the Sprite on Layer0. The layers were arranged in the layers tab so that the Text would be displayed on top of the Sprite. The order from bottom to top in the layers list indicates the order of rendering the Objects on each layer. In addition, since you didn't want the Sprite or Text object showing at first, I set the Initial Visibility in the Editor to Invisible for both of them. To support the triggering of making the Sprite and Text Object visible, I added a global variable that was initially set to 0 but then later set to 1 to indicate that the Sprite and Text objects were made visible. I knew that the first message was to be set first so that's where I put the Sub-Event for making the Sprite and Text objects visible. Now just like with visibility, we use that 'paragraph' instance variable on the Text object so that when it is 0 and Return is pressed we set the text to the first message and Add 1 to the 'paragraph' instance variable. 'paragraph' being 1 indicates to us that the first message has been set and that the next time Return is pressed that the text should set to the second message. So we have that additional event that is checking for when 'paragraph' is 1. Now in order to alternate we have to have the second message event subtract 1 from 'paragraph' so that we go back the initial state of waiting to set the text to the first message.

    You really lost me there, but I suppose I will download it. I think putting the box on a different layer is uneccessary. And why do we need a global value to tell if it's visible if we can just make it visible?

    edit: your edit fixes the problem, but can you PLEASE explain why much more simply?

    also why are we subtracting 1 from the paragraph value? won't we need to only add to it if there are 3 or more paragraphs?

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  • okay so I press enter to make paragraph 1 appear, using "set text". I want to press enter again to change the text to paragrpah 2, however it doesn't erase paragrpah 1, rather paragraph 2 appears OVERTOP of it. how do I fix this?

    capx: http://biancagames.com/textbug.capx

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