jobel's Forum Posts

  • nimos100 that's exactly what I am trying to find out. And since GC is a documented issue I want to know if that's causing me issues or if it's just inefficient code/design.

    I suspect GC in a number of cases because I can have 60FPS and hardly any cpu usage, but still get pauses happening as a sprite just floats around the screen. and it happens rhythmically.... like smooth for a second or 2, then stutter, stutter and again, the exact same issue...

  • hi,

    is there a way to know how much "garbage" you are making the system cleanup? I looked in the debugger but didn't see anything related to "garbage-collection".

    Sometimes when I even create small games I get the gc "pauses" when the game doesn't have much going on at all...

    Does having many Chrome tab opens at the same time add to the problem? I'd love to see in a game I am working on how much GC is happening (i.e. slowing down the game).

    thanks..!

  • yes I'm at a game jam right now working with 2 java guys that don't use C2, I'm doing level design and exporting the project out, they are reading the export. One time I checked minify script and they were like..umm we can't read or parse this out at all! oops.. haha

  • this should do it...

    you needed to use the TiledBackground object..

  • I'm looking for non-pixel art.

  • do you do animation? what are your rates?

  • Hi,

    I'm looking for a 2D artist that I can hire ad-hoc for 1 or 2 animations at a time.

    I'm making a top-down space game. I'm specifically looking for animations like:

    -a ship's warp field explosion as the ship zooms off into a vortex.

    -looping animation of colored energy swirling around a cannon or other weapon

    -other special effects you'd see in any space combat genre

    -non cartoony animations

    etc

    Let me know if this interests you. Please send samples/rates of your work.

  • so that when i click on a sprite the two number boxes work out the math

    You need to add the Mouse Object (double click the gray area in the Layout View).

    This will enable to have a Mouse Event called ->OnMouseClick: click on object

    that object should be your sprite that you mention in your post.

  • on Start of Layout:

    -set Text to round(random(1,10)) for the 2 number text objects. (Number1Text and Number2Text)

    -set Text to choose("+","-","*","/") for the operator text box. (OperatorText)

    Then on Sprite click (your action button)

    -if OperatorText.text = "+" then Set AnswerText.text to int(Number1.text) + int(Number2.text)

    etc.. for each operator

    You need some other User button to reset the fields, so I suggest a Clear/Reset button which you can just re-execute the code in On Start of Layout.

  • use an array and for every new entry use the "Push" action which creates a new "row" or entry... like a dynamic list. There's also a sorting action which makes it easy.

    https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/307/ar ... -beginners

  • twg yeah that sounds about right. I finally settled on CFR 15 for my capture and it looked great. thanks!

  • I'd really like to use Bandicam, I like its interface and ease of use...but it's unusable for C2 projects. Fraps looks super nice, but alas doesn't work with Browsers..too bad they don't update it.

    twg okay I just checked out how to set the quality in OBS.

    In Settings you check Custom x264 Encoder Settings. then you set the CFR= (constant frame rate)

    51=worst quality

    23=default

    18=better quality

    0=lossless

    here's the link for those of you who would like to know more...

    http://slhck.info/articles/crf

  • DatapawWolf yeah overall quality, like trying to get the best version of the video. I'm not streaming anything, this would be to show footage of my game, so I'd want that highest quality possible. I'd rather put my own compression on there and be in control of it.

    twg thanks! I will check that out.. I don't want RAW footage either.. just something that does not degrade quality. Otherwise it looks like the game itself is that way and not the video.

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  • DatapawWolf yes OBS has given me the best performance so far, however the overall quality of the video is not so great. There doesn't seem to be any option to adjust key frames. For example, fade in/out from/to black looks terrible and choppy. Also my backgrounds are dark so there's lots of pixelation (artifacts). Or it could be a compression thing, either way I have yet to find a setting that looks totally clear.

    any other suggestions?

  • Why is Fraps so out of date? last update was Feb 2013?? and the installer is incredibly old. I am using Win8.1 and there doesn't seem to be a way to record Chrome... works great with my Steam games though!