miketv's Forum Posts

  • it's the new "watching paint dry".

  • Yeah, it would be better to do this without slicing up your bg. I don't know much about blend modes...I'll be interested to see the solution.

  • Construct 2 can make any kind of game you can make.

  • Wait....what? Can you install C2 to the cloud??

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  • Looks like it's safe to bet on them failing after about 3 years. I've got C2 installed on a dedicated flash drive with a TON of game projects....it will will probably fail within 2 years, the way I constantly tweak my games.

    • When a post or thread is in the moderation que, it will not show up to normal users on the forum instead of sitting out as an ugly sight.

    So, the post would go up, & it would only go to moderation if it was flagged by a user that the community entrusted with the power to flag?

  • I was just reading about flash drives vs external hard drives, & the article was saying flash drives have a limit on the number of write/rewrite cycles.

    Should I move my installation from a flash drive to an external HD?

  • That or grant this small privilege of forcing thread approval to a select few users. They'd be like Mods but with but one small power, and easily manageable.

    That's how Spriter does it: new threads have to be approved. It took 12 hours for my 1st (& only) question to get approved. Kind of turned me off from the company.

  • Anybody else getting this error after carefully following the instructions?

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    The only difference between my install & the instructions on Spriter's forum (linked above) is that I have a portable install of C2, so I installed Spriter to that plugin folder instead of to my C drive.

    Has anybody got it working successfully on a portable install?

  • Maybe rearrange the layers top to bottom:

    The Rest Of The Layout (everything except the Tiled BG & the Text)

    Text

    Tiled Background

    so that the text can be hidden by the stuff you said is "below & above the tiled bg".

    Example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x3nw0whdpmf615g/textOverBGOnly.capx

  • The answer is in the Beginner's Tutorial

  • It looks fine to me.... not blurry at all, just a little busy & bright, maybe.

  • :D

    i try to understand today WHY and how to use layer ... but still confusing

    WHY is up to you. I generally use them for organizing a project: background on bottom layer, characters in the middle, HUD on top. But you can do whatever works for you.

  • Got the 1st clue...is this one of those things where you have to be British to get the next clue?

  • Working in C2 is a learning experience.

    A lot of times, we'll have a problem that lingers for days without resolution & all we can do is search & wait. Sometimes we'll have a question about how to do something, & then when we get the answer it turns out we won't need that knowledge again for a long time. Sometimes we aren't even looking for an answer, but something unexpected happens & maybe someone else can use it.

    So I'd like to start a thread where we can store all those dumb & cool little things we learned along the way.

    I'll start:

    today I learned that if you want to upload C2 assets to the new store, they have to be in .zip format.