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    Problem Description

    Construct 2 editor is lagging on Windows 10.

    Toolbars, menus, context menus (when you right-click something) take a long time to re-draw.

    Sprite Editor is very slow, even in small or blank projects.

    C2 takes over 30 seconds to load.

    (Event dialogs are also opening with a significant delay, but as this may be a different issue, I logged another bug report for it)

    All these problems are temporary resolved with Windows restart - C2 startup time becomes less than 5 seconds, editor works without noticeable lags.

    First couple of hours after windows restart C2 works well, but then it starts to slow down again.

    Please see this video, it demonstrates the difference in performance before and after Windows restart:

    https://youtu.be/8thpozIBnUU

    Attach a Capx

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/541c7mrvrydgt ... .capx?dl=0

    This capx doesn't really matter as the performance is bad in all projects, even blank ones.

    Description of Capx

    Capx with some test objects and events from the video above.

    Steps to Reproduce Bug

    Possible way to reproduce:

    I made a test yesterday - restarted my laptop, ensured that C2 works fast and there are no lags.

    Then I launched a bat file which starts a C2 project, waits 40 seconds, exits C2 and then repeats everything again and again.

    With every cycle, C2 loading time was noticeably slower.

    After 1 hour of running this bat, loading time for C2 dropped down to 30 seconds and all performance problems returned.

    Observed Result

    See the video

    Expected Result

    Stable performance

    Affected Browsers

    N/A, editor issue.

    Operating System and Service Pack

    Windows 10 Home, Version 10.0.16299 Build 16299

    Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU 2.50GHz, 2712 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

    RAM 8GB, 256GB SSD

    Video Intel(R) HD Graphics 620

    Construct 2 Version ID

    r252, r251 and earlier versions

  • You can add two Bullet behaviors to one sprite. One with "Bounce of solids", one without.

    Then in runtime simply disable one behavior and enable another.

  • I also coudn't reproduce this bug.

  • JohnnySix , Maybe this has something to do with previewing and cross-domain situation. Have you tried different browsers? Are there any errors in browser's Console Log?

    Also, I wonder what's going on in the blurred lines on your screenshot?

    Maybe you are assembling a URL string using some variable that hasn't been initialized yet on start of the layout?

  • MPPlantOfficial

    Could you elaborate? So you create a circle with 179 bars. What's next? Use these bars to detect collisions and then calculate the reflection angle?

    You can do the same without the bar sprite.

    On collision with an obstacle check 180 or 360 times if obstacle is overlapping a point at (ball.x + radius*cos(loopindex), ball.Y + radius*sin(loopindex))

    There may be difficulties with both methods. What if the ball hits a corner?

    Another option would be setting "Bounce off solids=Off" and using Raycast plugin to determine the reflection angle. Although I don't know if it has been ported to C3 yet.

  • That shapy bezier floor, does it have a repeating pattern? You can break it into two TiledBackground objects.

    Say, one TiledBackground with curvy top stretched horizontally. And a small black square (also TiledBackground), stretched in both ways.

    Even if the curvy part of the floor doesn't have a pattern, you can crop it to something like 1280x50 and fill the remaining 250px with a tiled background black square. This will save quite a lot of memory.

  • I don't know if there are any logs, but here is something I found:

    Check Documents and Settings\{your profile}\AppData\Local\Temp

    or \Documents and Settings\{your profile}\Local Settings\Temp

    if there are folders starting with "cap*", they may contain your project files and there is a chance you can recover your game.

  • Leosa

    In theory - yes, you can probably generate levels (or rooms) randomly and endlessly. But it will be very difficult to make sure that they are:

    a) solvable, so that the player doesn't get stuck

    b) difficult enough to be interesting to play

  • Are you blackmailing me?

    Did you see the the link I posted? In one of the comments on the first page there is a working link to capx.

    If you decide to use this dialogue system, edit the xml file in the project. Either add a function to xml that will change avatar image/animation, or add a new attribute "animation_name" (this will require some changes in the dialogue events).

  • This isn't really a beginner's question and there are not so many people here who are familiar with Spriter.

    So I suggest you re-post it in "How do I" forum and also leave a comment in the Spriter plugin post:

  • Here is a good way to change animations for a platform character (screenshot from someone else's game):

  • Try this:

    Keyboard Shift is down 
----------------> player set Platform maximum speed 100 
----------------> player set Platform jump strength 100
Else 
----------------> player set Platform maximum speed 50 
----------------> player set Platform jump strength 50
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  • See this post:

  • Behaviors and instance variables are building blocks of any C2 game. You need to read some tutorials.

    https://www.scirra.com/manual/86/behavior-reference

    https://www.scirra.com/manual/73/instance-variables