Jase00's Forum Posts

  • I use Construct 3 with a fresh copy of Chrome - No extensions, no changes in settings. I've used this for years and my computer is behaving OK.

    Do you have more information on what Malware Bytes is telling you, like does it tell you the exact file it is suspicious about?

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  • Hey there,

    This came up recently, check the below thread:

    construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/export-chrome-store-172116

  • Which version of C3 are you all using?

  • I wonder if this is a RAM issue. How much RAM does your computer have, and what GPU do you use?

    Do you use a gaming laptop? If so, perhaps the browsers you use are not using the dedicated GPU. This might be fixable with the nvidia/whatever software you use to configure your GPU, but in my case, I had to disable switchable graphics in my bios or something (this was years ago so I don't remember exactly what I did).

    I assume you have very busy layouts with many sprites and such placed everywhere? Could you try opening your project, then open a "smaller" layout that has less objects within? Does it crash?

    Can you open Kiwi Story or some of the example projects in C3, and see if it crashes?

    I know it sucks to be forced to use a browser when you've been happily using NWJS all this time, but I'm hoping you will find the cause to this problem, and I hope it's a smooth experience beyond this. I used to use C3 in NWJS ages ago, but I had so many terrible problems, such as NWJS unpredictably silently closing, without allowing me to save, even on a fresh install of Windows 10. I now use Chrome to run C3 (I don't use Chrome for anything else except C3) and I use remote preview, along with the remote preview tool, to test in NWJS. And I got to say, using Chrome has been the MOST stable C3 experience I've had so far - I wish hadn't faffed around with C3 in NWJS for so long. The only slowdown I get is when I have long event sheets with many sub-events and groups expanded, but I just collapse everything and it speeds up again. I don't really use layouts for my current project though, so I don't have any "busy" layouts to test if it crashes for me, other than my object repository layout, which is a bit slow, but no crashes.

  • Yes!!

    I was gifted one on my birthday, a 2 key macro keyboard. Your one looks really cool, with the dial and all.

    Using one of these has been greatly useful for C3 and Paint.NET (e.g. when doing repetitive tasks).

    I also recommend checking out AutoHotkey if you aren't aware of this. It's a bit confusing at first but it's worth learning about. I setup a macro to auto-type a date stamp, so when I write a comment in C3, I can tap on the key and instantly leave a date stamp so that I know when I wrote the comment.

    Too bad I knocked it off my desk by mistake and one of the keys stopped working...

  • Yep exactly that.

    I often organise my objects into folders, so I am looking around this area of C3 often.

    I am an idiot. But I'm a happy idiot now that I know this exists!

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    Very informative!!

    Thanks again for the insight into this, I feel like I understand a lot more now.

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    I totally know what you mean, especially when editing an existing system or something. The knock-on effect is unpredictable.

    After thinking this through, I think I can see the possible issues by adding something seemingly easy. Whilst it wouldn't affect existing projects for sure, if people began to use "force jump", it could interfere with double-jump, and then you'd end up with a bug report with a specific case for this, which leads to editing double jump, which could lead to many unexpected issues that DO affect other projects.

    Many thanks for the insight.

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    I was curious about this specific request for a "force jump" action - would it actually take longer than an hour to code this into the platformer behaviour? I don't do plugin creation so I have no idea, maybe it takes a whole day to add/test this, I don't know, but it's why I'm asking.

    I get that there could be gotchas like, maybe it conflicts with another action, but like, all existing projects wouldn't be affected because its a new "action" and nothing more.

    Isn't it literally just the jump code but without a "is on ground" check?

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    Out of curiosity, how long would it take for Scirra to add a "force jump" action to the platform behaviour?

    I figured the code is already there for the regular jump, so it's just copy pasting existing code and excluding the check for "is on ground"? Not much to test, wouldn't break other projects.

  • Absolutely! I wonder how many others are working on "big" projects and tend to get a bit lost when navigating around multiple event sheets with thousands of events.

    The project view search was such a huge revelation to me. I used to forget which folder an object was in, so I would go into a new event, search for the object and click it, go back, and then it'd tell me the folder it belongs in, which was a ridiculously long-winded way of finding an object! The search is a life-saver and I'm kicking myself for not realising it existed sooner, even though it was in plain sight all along.

  • Yeah the tips I posted were things I've done to speed things up in the current state of C3, although it's not ideal and I'd definitely be interested in seeing updates to find/bookmark bar. I also wonder if it would ever be possible to change object icons, because often it gets confusing having many families, arrays, dictionaries, etc. with the same icon.

    I'll throw votes at this, but please consider the bookmark bar suggestion too - If this was enhanced, then once some bookmarks are placed onto events that you often jump between, you may not need to use "find" as often in this case (whereas right now, if you bookmarked common events, it might build a huge list of bookmarks and it's not clear what each bookmark is there for. Even just giving each bookmark a text label would be a major improvement and I wouldn't keep clearing my list of bookmarks!)

    Also I use C3 all the time and endlessly read the manual, but somehow I never knew there was a "project view search". Thanks for highlighting this!

  • No probs, glad it was useful! I use C3 with 2 monitors, so I always have "find" and "find all references" popup windows on a 2nd monitor.

    3 other small tips to help with big projects:

    I often want to find when an object was created. If you search "create object sprite" or even just "object sprite" or "ct sprite", you'll often get the correct result fast.

    You can leave comments with "tags" within. Say you have a complex HUD feature that links to many different events and event sheets, I'd write comments such as "TagForSearch: HUD System" near each event. You can then do a search for "tagforsearch: HUD system" to find all related events of a system you created. You can also do a search for "tagforsearch" to list all of your "tags", which can be useful. Bonus points if you use autohotkey to map a key to auto-type "tagforsearch" so it saves time typing this when doing a search.

    Finally, emojis! Sometimes you might be working with, say, 3 different arrays, or multiple families. You can't change the icon of these types of objects, but it is very useful to have a visual indicator to what object is what, rather than having to read their name each time. Simply rename the array or whatever object to have an emoji such as a 🔴 or 🔵 or something distinctive, and you'll always instantly know what array you are looking at. You will even see the emoji within expressions as you scroll through your event sheets. Don't put the emoji at the start of the object name, or else you cannot quickly type its name when adding events, actions, or expressions. To be honest, I use this tip less, but I once had to do a massive change in my huge project to replace a spritefont object with a sprite object - by using "find all references" and giving the old spritefont a red 🔴 in its name and the new sprite is given a 🟢 in its name, it reminds me that "red is bad, this needs to be updated", and "green is good, this is correct". Sure I could have just kept using find all references, but seeing the little red dot amongst expressions helped me quickly edit my events to get the job done faster. Also just in case you didn't know, you can quickly get an emoji window to appear in Windows 10 by pressing "WINKEY + ." (Windows key and the period key).

    EDIT: I made a suggestion a year ago, for enhancing the bookmark bar. Looking at this again, perhaps "colourful bookmarks" isn't user-friendly to those with colour-blindness, but perhaps bookmarks could have unique icons or tags against them instead. Either way, consider voting if you are a C3 user that has a huge project to navigate! construct3-21h2.ideas.aha.io/ideas/C321H2-I-4

  • Yeah I agree, this and the bookmarks bar needs some love and attention, especially for those with a big project with several thousands of events.

    A small tip that I discovered: If you use the find window as a popup window, then you can click into the address bar of the find window, press ctrl+f, then you can use the browsers find feature to search through your find results.

    E.G. Say you are trying to find an event related to visibility of an object. You could do "find all references" on an object, and you might get 300 results, but if you change the find results into a popup window, you can use the browsers find feature to search for "visible" to save time hunting through the 300 results you initially had.

  • I see what you're saying. I have tested on a 60hz monitor on the same computer, but still jittering and such.

    I'll double check stats later but on 60hz monitor with vsync, generally cpu is like 10% usage, gpu unsure but it is heavy gpu stuff (video playback, particle effects, layers with effects, etc.). I do feel competent with designing my events efficiently, but everyone is capable of mistakes.

    I wonder why would it work so nicely without vsync, but jittery with vsync, even if it is related to cpu and gpu usage. It makes me worry, if I can lower the usage of cpu and gpu on my high end computer to fix the vsync jitter, then great, but it might jitter on a low-end computer, even if they see it says its a solid 60fps. I still think it is vital to give the player the option to choose.

    EDIT: Just to add, the video playback, when vsync is off, it is buttery smooth. With Vsync on, it's very noticeably choppy. Again, not been able to reproduce on blank project, could still be gpu related and such, but it's such a tease to see my whole project working perfectly when vsync is off (ironically using more resources but giving a smoother experience).

    EDIT 2: Another way I would approach this issue, even without jitter issues: If I were a player, the first thing I would do in a game is make sure video settings are set to my own preference, such as when I play a rhythm game or FPS, I turn off vsync and such. It doesn't feel right to NOT offer a way for players to disable vsync, when like every other game, old or modern, does offer the option.