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  • With all info given, it is indeed weird.

    I have 1 possible idea, very unlikely:

    Did you had addons, and you did NOT bundle them in your project, so each test you did on other computers and browsers, you had to install those addons, then open your project and get errors?

    If that is what you're doing, then, did you modify those addons or update them?

    I say all of this, because, I tinkered with addons before and this made projects unable to be opened (didn't check console when this happened).

    Beyond this, I may be wrong, but, might be worth emailing your project to Scirra's support email, as, it's not a bug, but it's a severe issue with your project. Just clarify in the email what you've tried, other computers, other browsers, older C3, older backups, etc.

    It may be impossible for them to solve, or may be a huge endeavour for Scirra to investigate especially if its a large project, but, well, if I were in your position, that would feel like my only hope with such a severe issue.

    Do you have other info you can think of - did you mess with containers a lot in your project? Did you only add containers recently? Have you had a look at your c3p file with 7zip/zip software, does it open? Is it blank? Is it corrupt when you try to open it and open a random file within? Does this happen with any other projects? If unsure, try making a new project or take an example project, save it, close, open.

    I even wonder if "container" is a red herring in the context of Construct, maybe it's not container-related but a weird generic error message referring to another type of "container" within JS/html.

  • I'd say it's reliable, but I believe the debugger costs a bit of performance itself (though not 100% sure, or, if it does cost performance, is that reflected in the cpu %?).

    It may be more cleaner to add a text/SpriteFont and set text to cpuutilisation, then preview without debugger and see what you get.

    For the FPS, I've found Chrome is always wayy more performant, whilst Firefox lags in same exact game.

    For the FPS dropping randomly, I've only ever seen that on mobile devices. My mobile is a 120hz display, and even when I force it to "gaming mode", it drops to 60fps when it is overwhelmed, then few seconds pass, then it jumps back up to 120fps. Not sure if any desktop computers also do this, but I wouldn't have thought so.

    Perhaps the whole "nearly 100% but on older device it barely reaches 15%" thing, my guess is, is it using webgl2, or is it using your gpu on the device that reaches 100%? The debugger will tell you if webgl2 is being used, and also you could create a text object that outputs gpuutilisation - if you get a value, it's using your gpu. If you get "NaN", then perhaps gpu stuff is being offloaded onto the cpu, causing 100% cpu usage.

    Just some thoughts, hope it points you in the right direction!

  • Curious! I wonder if AZERTY is a keyboard with its own region profile on a computer - as in, are the physical scancode values different comparing QWERTY and AZERTY, or, when you plug in an AZERTY keyboard, are you expected to change the keyboard region before it works correctly?

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  • I don't know the answer but have some suggestions.

    What browser do you use? I think best to try Chromium.

    You may have already tried this, but have you tried different type of drivers, like open source and the vendor provided ones?

    In the past, I used Manjaro with a Nvidia GPU, I remember one of the drivers would just give black screen with only DOM elements appearing (which didn't react, like it crashed) for C3 games, the other driver was better and a 3D C3 game looked correct (but I recall there being refresh rate issues, and I couldn't solve it, so went back to maining Windows).

    Also, again I'm not super familiar, but could Wayland be the issue? I seem to see that pop up often in reddit for Linux gaming issues, although this may only be relevant for Nvidia or not relevant at all, just a guess!

  • ...it's normal it went fast during the first days because people posted their most wished/relevant suggestion from the old platform as there was a reset.

    Ah true, this went right past me.

    Github provide a bunch of way to filter and sort issues.

    Just sort them from the "most recent" to see the new ones, "recently updated" to see recent discussions, or use searching syntax to filter only last month.

    That helps, thanks for pointing that out! Particularly "recently updated" even if a random obscure old suggestion that got 0 votes, suddenly gets comment, then it's in the front of the list if sorting this way.

    Being able to add tags like "Behavior", "Editor" could help indeed but i suspect tags are reserved for Scirra...

    Yeah, for now it's doable to scroll through a few pages, hopefully some form of categorisation can be done long term if suggestions get into the hundreds.

    FWIW Godot, the most "democratic" game engine out there also use Github issues, doesn't limit the amount of suggestion per user and don't care about having 3955 opened issues (with about 7 new ones per day), given their incredible growth and speed of developement i would say it works quite well.

    Excellent point! Understandably Godot may have a significantly bigger team (I'm not sure) but the fact they use Github for suggestions shows that it is tried and tested, which gives me a lot of confidence! My opinion is a lot less mixed now.

  • Infact I counted manually, assume we did have only 1 suggestion per person.

    There's currently 64 suggestions, subtract 51 (so everyone had 1 suggestion), and there would only be 13 suggestions!

    I do agree it's more about gathering community opinion, but does make it look way more clean if it was just 1 per person. Very mixed, I don't know.

  • 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.