ptbcomposer's Forum Posts

  • But with the audio plugin, music is streamed from the server, not downloaded. Is this what you mean?

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  • I could be wrong, but this sounds like a job for the AJAX plugin since you are pretty much asking the game to retrieve something from a server. Then you have AJAX put it in the game session (look up AJAX tutorials to figure this stuff out), and then tell AJAX to put it back on the server, but in a different folder. For the next person who receives the gift, pretty much the same process happens.

    However, I don't know how to do this AJAX stuff yet, so I can't tell you how to do it.

  • I have this in my project, but I added 1 each time something is collected, then told system to look for the specific number of items. Same thing, essentially.

  • I highly recommend creating a separate event sheet for your pause/menu functions. Then on each layout you right click on blank space and select "Include event sheet" and then the pause/menu event sheet.

  • I have this in my project...works perfectly. first, create a global variable called "paused"; start it at 0. on click on pause button, have system set global variable "paused" to 1. then on a new event, have system compare variable "paused"...when equal to 1, set system timescale to 0. make another new event...have system compare variable "paused"...when equal to 0, set system timescale to 1.

    this can be modified in many ways to make it work for you...for instance, you can restore individual object timescales immediately after setting system timescale to 0 so that you can still have button animations and stuff like that.

  • can you post your .capx so we can look at it? I still have no idea what you mean.

  • Very good display of what Construct 2 can do. But it's too damn hard! Can't do level 3 worth a crap! Good stuff, good music too.

  • how about a menu or hud that shows what the controls are?? I hate having to pause the game and go back to the forum page to see what button does what.

    just my opinion

  • I'm gonna guess that would take even longer because then you'd have to manually copy all of the global variables, events, etc into the new projects. Go with Asley's suggestion.

  • I would like this feature added as well. My project will include a music rhythm minigame

  • Thanks again guys. Confirmed to work with a slight modification to account for being on more than one layout.

  • Ok, it's me again. Guess I couldn't wait to mess up again!

    I put advanced in the subject because this problem goes way beyond just telling an object to rotate and then stop on a certain angle.

    What I need to do is on the menu layout, the needle for the guitar tuner needs to rotate left or right based on certain conditions. This gets complicated, but I'll try my best to explain...

    In my interactive graphic novel, the reader is given choices that determine whether the main character does something merciful or unmerciful and cooperative or uncooperative. For instance, you have the decision to knock someone out or kill them; that would be merciful or unmerciful, respectively. Or you have the option to come along quietly with authorities or you can try to escape; that would be cooperative or uncooperative, respectively. You can probably see where I'm going with this (think the Paragon/Renegade decisions in Mass Effect). The overall outcome of these decisions determine which ending the comic will have.

    Anyway, each time the reader selects merciful, the needle should go about 8 degrees to the right of the center of the tuner. This is also the case with each time the reader chooses cooperative. However, the needle needs to move left 8 degrees for each negative choice as well. For instance, if the reader has chosen (in this order) to be merciful, cooperative and then merciful, the needle should be 24 degrees to the right of center. If the reader then chooses a negative choice (in the way of unmerciful or uncooperative) then the needle will move to the left 8 degrees and thus it will rest at 16 degrees to the right of center until the next choice. Still with me?

    I'm having a really, really hard time figuring out how to do this...pretty much all day working on it. Everything seems to break when I try it...sine, custom movement, regular movement, setting angles, rotating to angle, using instance variables and global variables...blah!

    I don't get it. I'm much better with the design stuff. Any ideas?

    http://philipcomposer.com/comic/sax.capx

  • What do you mean "click event of the buttons"? If you literally mean just clicking the buttons, then add a mouse instance. In event sheet, add new event, select mouse, select "on object clicked" then tell it what you want it to do when it is clicked. There are lots of options here. You can sort of animate it by making the button become smaller or bigger when you click it, make something else pop up, etc.

  • Yeah, but I wasn't telling each object to have a TS of 1 until it was supposed to come up. For some reason it was reading ahead and setting the TS to 1 out of order, regardless of whether the system's TS was 0 or not. Confusing! At least it works like it should now.

  • Confirmed working on all layouts thus far! Thanks ramones, you just saved me hours of work! This way even fixes the layout disappearing at the beginning of layout 3.

    So why does "restore time scale" work a lot better than "set time scale to 1" within the layout, but "set time scale to 1" works in the hud? it seems to me that "set time scale" and "restore time scale" are the same thing because the original time scale was 1 to begin with until I manually set it to 0. Grrr. Could this be a Construct 2 glitch or is it like a ghost in the machine that produces the continuing fade out error if I use "set time scale"?

    Either way, thanks. Hopefully, I won't need anymore help like this for a while until I start implementing my more complicated game-type elements.