Jase00's Forum Posts

  • It's early days but I'm mixed about using github.

    It's already approaching 100 suggestions and 90% aren't of interest to me personally, I did vote on ones I did find interesting! But gotta admit, it makes me lose hope that new suggestions will be seen (assuming Scirra only sort by thumbs up, but perhaps they will browse throughout). A new idea may appear, get a few votes, then disappear into the void if it didn't gain enough votes, only to be found if someone stumbles upon it or if they did a search with the right search terms.

    Maybe would be good for a "trending" or "hot" sorting for suggestions that are getting sudden recent votes or comments, if github allows this? Maybe it exists already, bit new to this.

    It may also be harder for new suggestions to thrive because it's not grouped afaik, where the old system could have "event sheet" category and can see top suggestions just for this - although this may not matter depending on how Scirra browse (I guess I imagine they might think "OK today, let's check out some event sheet suggestions", but maybe not). That's how I used to browse, I wouldn't browse areas of C3 I don't currently use, and would mostly browse categories I have an interest in.

    Also without grouping, most people may not feel eager to browse randomly through a list of things they don't know about. I felt that way when browsing recently, just lots of stuff I didn't understand or didn't find interesting.

    Imagine when it reaches 200 or 300 suggestions, is anyone able to genuinely tick "I checked if this exists already", would need to rely on a search (where you may use different terms and may mistakenly miss an existing suggestion), or alternatively, browse every page. The old system was manageable since categories made it easier/quicker to check if exists.

    Wilson's point is curious, if people did have 1 suggestion at a time, would indeed help keep it manageable and everyone has to think carefully what they deem as important, which is what Scirra always hope people will do. I can't say I fully agree because I posted about 5 suggestions already, and all of them I'd love to see, but then it's interesting if I had to genuinely pick only 1, what would I pick? (prob would go with "custom icons" eheheh pls vote).

    Although if limited to 1 suggestion... People could just make new accounts to post multiple suggestions. No way to win. But that was already a frowned upon issue with old system, where vote spamming from alt accounts could occur (tho I suppose this is catchable in github too if sudden unusual accounts appear).

  • I think you don't need the replace color effect.

    Click your white button, and look at the properties, there should be a "color" option (it's always there, it's not an effect).

  • It could be "BBCode" is turned on, which uses those square brackets to do things like bold and such. Click the text object and untick "Enable BBCode".

  • Ahh that makes sense. You can simply delete these events. Drag n drop will automatically do the "set position" stuff correctly, no need for your own "set position" events.

    Delete the events then test again.

  • Not sure if feature request or oversight, but I think I can't spot any way to set a event-added dynamic layer to 3D.

    Had almost finished moving my UI onto dynamic layers but only now realised I can't switch them to 3D, even if they are sublayers of a 3D layer. Maybe I'm wrong and I haven't spotted the action to do this!

    Let me know what's best, was thinking to post bug report but didn't want to file wrong type of thing.

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  • Adding an "else" will kinda combine the 2 actions together, so your logic would look at the first event "IsSelected", and if you use an "else" on the next event, then those two events work like "is selected? Do this. Otherwise, do this other stuff for when it's not selected".

  • It's appreciated that you took the time to point this out even though you are less active. Thank you for the heads up.

  • Hmm, what sort of old devices do these issues happen on? Got any model names or android versions?

  • fedca Wow how did I miss this all along. Thank you!

  • Once you set a hierarchy up, you can rightclick the parent and choose "hierarchy > select all children", and then right click once more and choose "wrap selection", to get good movement around the layout view - all hierarchy parts will move together and resize proportionally too.

    EDIT: Hmm, I checked keyboard shortcuts, I can see ENTER to wrap selection quickly, but don't see a "select all children of hierarchy" shortcut, unless W works (although it says this is for containers). If W works, then that's super convenient!

  • Ruskul You'll find yourself under-productive, waiting for an off chance that something will change.

    Wise words, can apply to so many things in life. Need it framed and placed next to my monitor.

  • I wonder but haven't tested: Once you export with nwjs and disallow chrome dev tools, can a player force chrome dev tools back on? Would it be easy as opening package.nw and adding an extra parameter, or more tricky?

    I am not sure the power of chrome dev tools, and I'm sure minifying would obsfucate variable names and such, but I suppose maybe worth knowing in case you had browser log commands that output important info since you'd assume noone would see it.

    Assuming you could run JS this way, would there be any common vector of attack that someone could exploit?

    Random example relating to multiplayer, is it obvious for someone to write some JS to force-send messages to host or peers? Or would it be easy to write JS to "output any incoming messages into browser log" to gather information about messages (and thus exploit further)?

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  • Thanks as always for the very descriptive explanation, Ashley!

  • Very very interesting!

    So, assuming someone plays with webgl1, if you have a game with a LOT of load image from url, is there a likely performance impact? I prob need to force webgl1 and measure.

    I'm curious what load image from url does under the hood - I presume it kinda tells the C3 runtime "hey, this specific frame of this specific animation must display this single image file". I assume this means the image that we get from load image from url is not somehow injected into a power of 2 image (or maybe it does?).

    Does it matter if you change 10,100,1000, or 10000 images like this? I'm very interested in making projects that rely on EVERYTHING being loaded via url externally (making it easy for me to expand the project with extra content, as well as modders), so good to plan ahead accordingly!

    Definitely need to measure but still just curious overall.