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• • dop2000
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  • 19 Feb, 2024
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  If you are certain it's a bug and you can reproduce it in a small project, you need to report it:

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues

• • dop2000
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  --disable-devtools is a checkbox you can enable/disable on export.

  You can see what commands were added in previous version and manually update package.json file after export.

  You can also revert your project file to Construct version 368.2 by unpacking it to a folder and editing project.c3proj file:

  	"savedWithRelease": 36802,
  
  
• • dop2000
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  I think the problem is that you are picking a random spawner first, and then checking if it has not spawned a key. If the first condition picked the spawner which has already spawned a key, the whole event won't run. You need to swap the order of these conditions in every event.

  Also, "Wait for previous action" should not be used like that - you need to remove them or replace with "Wait 0" if you want to wait to the end of the tick.

• • dop2000
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  Can you post a screenshot of the event sheet? Or share your project file.

• • dop2000
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  Perhaps this will help?

  howtoconstructdemos.com/relative-movement-on-another-moving-object-capx

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  howtoconstructdemos.com/spawn-objects-randomly-without-overlapping-2-capx

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• • dop2000
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  In "On key/button pressed" event you can set a variable jump_start to 1.

  Then add another top-level event:

  jump_start=1 
  ... Platform set vector
  ... Set jump_hold to Jump_Hold_Strength
  ... set jump_start to 0
  
  

  This should fix the issue!

• • dop2000
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  Yeah, this is odd. My guess is that keyboard and gamepad "On pressed" events trigger at different stages in a tick. Perhaps the keyboard event triggers earlier, before the Platform behavior makes its vector calculations. So the event sets vectorY to -400, then the behavior reduces it by gravity value. So at the end of the tick the vector value is already reduced to something like -370.

  In case of gamepad, the behavior updates the vector first, then the "On A pressed" event sets vectorY to -400, which remains -400 until the end of the tick. That's why the sprite jumps higher.

  Player.Platform.VectorY returns -400 in both cases, but from my experience you can't trust vectorX/vectorY expressions, they often return wrong (not actual) values. See this bug report for example:

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues/6323

  Three objects move at different speeds, by vectorX returns the same value for all of them..

• • dop2000
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  • 17 Feb, 2024
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  This is an issue with backward compatibility, might be worth reporting:

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues

• • dop2000
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  You can save Tilemap.TileJSON in a text variable. Then create a new tilemap instance and load tile data from that variable. Use Tilemap Load action.

• • dop2000
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  To ignore consecutive touches you can add a condition "Touch.TouchCount=1"

  I want my bullet to spawn at the second location even if the first is still touching. I tried changing to Touch.X(1) Touch.Y(1) but it did not seem to work.

  Use Touch.X(Touch.TouchIndex)

  Like I said, you can find all these expressions in the manual.

• • dop2000
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  I actually never realized there was "On signal" condition!

  There is no right or wrong, you can use either the condition or action, whichever is more convenient for you. If the signal never arrives, the rest of the actions after "wait" will never be executed. Don't think this can cause any problems.

• • dop2000
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  You can use Touch.X(1) Touch.Y(1) expressions, where "1" means the second touch. (0 is the first, 1 is the second and so on.

  It may be better to ignore all touches after the first one. You can add a condition that checks that there is only one touch.

  Check out the documentation:

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/touch

• • dop2000
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  Yeah, the question isn't very clear. To get a random letter of the alphabet you can use this code:

  Variable alphabet = ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
  
  Set letter to mid(alphabet, random(len(alphabet)), 1)
  

  If you have a list of names/states and you want to pick one of them at random and display its first letter you can do something like this:

  Variable states = Alabama,Alaska,Colorado,Michigan
  
  Set randomState to tokenat(states, random(tokencount(states,",")), ",")
  Set letter to left(randomState, 1)
  

  You can find all these expressions in the documentation:

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/text

• • dop2000
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  Looks like this is possible with scripting:

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/scripting/scripting-reference/layout-interfaces/ilayout