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• • madster
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  I say it depends on your budget.

  I've noticed ATI packing decent power for cheap on middle-range cards, while NVidia's high range tends to be the best but really pricey.

  My ATI HD4870 has dual power connectors (high power consumption and heat, but I believe there are some that use 3?) and has one of those big heatsink+fan designs that pipe air out of the case. I thought Nvidias ran hotter but haven't seen the later models.

  Edit: At Redmond HQ they say you can finally change motherboard without having to reinstall windows. I don't know if that's true, but they seem rather proud of it.

• • madster
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  YOU HAVE TO RELOAD THEM?!?!?!?

  Okay. I would have never figured that out.

  Will try it out, sometimes you just need manual play.

• • madster
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  I don't have Construct installed in this laptop but I did tackle this issue once.

  However..... on second thought .... I was reflecting from a flat surface. Still I'm pretty sure it involves ATAN2

  I had this huge trigonometric expression only to figure out later that Construct had it built in.

• • madster
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  also keep in mind most knowledgeable people (not even hackers) will know which alogrithm you're using by counting digits.

  Mix, cut and interleave hashes (CRC32, SHA1, MD5) to keep them guessing. Don't name the files something obvious, then you have a decent check that requieres some effort to crack.

  =)

• • madster
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  • 28 Aug, 2009
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  Nice!

• • madster
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  I did this for the screen-space trails example.

  Used a "bridge" sprite with hotspot at one edge, positioned said "bridge" sprite on one of the "objects" to join, then set the bridge's angle towards the other object and stretched it according to the distance between them.

• • madster
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  So it would be actually just a separate collision mask which you'd import from an image?

• • madster
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  I had this problem but I managed to kill the temp.exe process (once I figured out it was the one I should kill).

  so:

  is temp.exe running? (check from process monitor, make sure it's showing all processes from all users, just in case.

  does temp.exe have write permission? maybe construct is unable to overwrite it for some reason.

  It happened me once with a runtime crash where temp.exe got stuck and I couldn't run any more previews. Again, as said, killing it made everything go back to normal.

• • madster
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  This sounds fun.

  Make sure to try out the orbiter and gravitation plugins, they might be just what you need.

• • madster
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  http://icofx.ro/

  This is a really nice and free icon editor. I tried it and worked beautifully.

  Export your game to .exe, then replace the icons with multi-resolution versions imported into icofx.

• • madster
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  • 28 Aug, 2009
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  Interesting.

• • madster
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  I didn't really get the idea of the game, guess the gameplay isn't ready yet.

  These games have a bad rep, but I always wanted to take them "to the next level". Current adult game genres aren't too much fun or even adult-themed.

  Maybe I'll do one sometime and throw a curve ball somewhere in there.

  And get models for it.

  Yes.

• • madster
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  not to derail but I'm really curious:

  Why not do it with a traditional language instead? is this program something that would be easily done with Construct?

  Now, on topic: write a proxy program that creates a text file with the options, and read them within your construct app.

  As Yaraslau said, you can then merge the .exe files, but I have no idea how.

  Yaraslau if you can explain or point to a resource that does, that'd be great.

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• • madster
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  and if one is using the new modular code containers in your own code, you can easily change all the events from using Sprite1, to using a different sprite or object

  or (and I hadn't considered this earlier) not just copy/paste the modular code and change the object, but be able to call the code using a different object as Object A, like passing parameters works in functions, but being able to use object types, as parameters

  Sounds kinda like families

• • madster
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  Use a hidden proxy object with LOS behavior. Rotate the proxy freely.