newt's Forum Posts

  • Perhaps the next poll should be "What features can you live without?".

    When you take into account that many of the given platforms cant have all the current features of Construct, or C2(official), IE hwa, shaders, connectivity, non homebrew/cracked, etc, your list becomes a lot shorter.

  • Do you have Python installed?

  • There's no good way to do this as of right now, but it can be done via the "family hack", or with python's picking ability for sprite{index}.

  • Luomu

    Many thanks. I was looking for a prog like this. Worked a treat.

    Only problem is I now have 154 tiles that have to be inserted one at a time, unless there's a quicker way!

    Import frames over in the animation bar.

  • Yeap, distance(x1,y1,x2,y2), or the distance between two points, is one of the more useful expressions.

  • > Vectors, universal game pad support, and plug-ins written in C# or Java. Especially vectors, I didn't foresee this limitation being a problem, but it may force me to use Game Maker or SFML.

    >

    you mean vector graphics or something? well you can sort of get the modifiable polygon effect with distort maps

    http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/c ... istort_Map

    Some better tools for manipulating the maps would be nice.

  • how is web browser not completely running away with the vote is beyond me. It may be tougher to implement than some of the other choices, but I took this poll more as a wish list than vote for which you want the most whilst bearing in mind which is the most plausible.

    Messaging somebody online with "Hey wanna check out my new game, *link to game playable in browser*" how could anybody not find that completely awesome. In this modern age, less and less people are likely to download and install a lesser known indie game.

    1. There's no way to make it compliant for every browser.

    2. Probably no hardware acceleration.

    3. Multi-player is impractical.

    4. Not everybody wants to make "casual" games. In other words you cant just message somebody online with "Hey wanna check out my new game, *link to game playable in browser*", btw that will be fitty bucks.

    5. Java, need I say more?

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  • Unsurprisingly browsers seem to be in the lead, but I wonder if all that voted for it realize there probably wont be hardware acceleration for that.

  • What Lucid said.

    ... if "Event-written behaviors/plugins/modules" was shareable it would take the plugin concept to a new level. Plus it would alleviate some of the issues with cross platform support.

    Also I like the idea of the possibility to port to other platforms, but I think that, for the sake of the project, the devs should have one official os.

  • That's a great idea! Defiantly will get some use.

  • http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6142

    Also someone green or red should sticky the link.

  • Also remember that timescale is based on timedelta.

  • I think he means FX.

  • Might try changing the original text as well. Guess its possible its hanging from there.

    Edit:

    Confirmed, change the original text.

  • Actually since your output can range from positive to negative, unlike the regular random, I found its quite useful for generating a random sinus curve.

    With that you can make a ai type movement that is limited to a set of certain x, or y coords on the screen without using clamp.