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• • R0J0hound
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  • 17 Jun, 2013
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  —

  He means a rectangle test. In other words just the bounding box test.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 15 Jun, 2013
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  It's not really like water, it's more of a blurred trail effect.

  The plasma examples start at 0:55 in this video:

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• • R0J0hound
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  • 11 Jun, 2013
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  The events run top down so when the first event is true and runs the second becomes true and also runs. A solution is to use the "else" condition with subevents:

  + on S pressed
    + onoff=1
    -- do this
    + else
    -- do that
• • R0J0hound
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  • 10 Jun, 2013
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  Use "go to layout by name" str(rLayout)

• • R0J0hound
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  • 9 Jun, 2013
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  For how the canvas object could be used for this:

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/using-pixel-colors-as-reference-for-level-layouts_topic57020.html

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/destroy-Objects-parts_topic61035_page2.html

• • R0J0hound
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  • 9 Jun, 2013
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  I would give the objects a Boolean instance variable and call it "picked". Just set it to true in any event and you can select the same objects elsewhere by comparing the instance var.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 3 Jun, 2013
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  Could a damped spring be helpful?

  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5426011/examples18/dampped_spring.capx

• • R0J0hound
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  • 31 May, 2013
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  Objects and instances are the same in Construct as in a programming language.When you add a sprite to a project you are adding a object type and one instance of the sprite to the layout. You can have as many sprite object types as you want but generally I find it easier to make the events for a lower amount of object types.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 31 May, 2013
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  Tokinsom

  The apparent memory leak and performance hit when using the canvas plugin with webgl on is one and the same issue. Unfortunately I can't think of anything that would help it on your end. In theory rewriting in proper webgl support would fix the problem of performance and memory inefficiency. However in the mean time the memory usage can be ignored as the the extra memory will be GC'd as needed.

  As I wrote that I realized some ways you could possibly reduce the memory usage of the canvas object.

  1. Make the canvas invisible. You said it's only used to draw to and then it's image is copied over to a sprite. If the canvas is never drawn then its image never needs to be copied to the gpu so less memory is used.

  2. Use one global canvas and re-use it as needed. Each canvas object uses it's own html5 canvas so it may possibly use less memory if you use only one.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 19 May, 2013
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  Here is a topic with a way to do weighted random:

  http://www.scirra.com/forum/weighted-probabilities_topic48421.html

  With that instead of doing this:

  a7 b2 c1 d0 e0

  You could do this and end up with about the same probabilities but give d and e a slight chance of happening.

  a700 b200 c100 d10 e1 total=1011

  For leveling up just add to the weights.

  You could do it linearly.

  Like add 1 to a, 2 to b, 3 to c...

  After 100 level ups the weights would be:

  a800 b400 c400 d410 e501

  You could also do it quadratically (x^2)

  Add 1 to a, 4 to b, 9 to c, 16 to d...

  After 100 level ups the weights would be:

  a800 b600 c1000 d1610 e2501

• • R0J0hound
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  • 14 May, 2013
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  You can do this with my canvas plugin, here's an example:

  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5426011/examples17/perpixel_pointcollision.capx

  More advanced per pixel collision detection can be done with it as well. There are a few capx i made that are scattered around the forum.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 12 May, 2013
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  It will be faster to loop through values in an array. And to be even faster don't invert the whole database. Just invert the values as you retrieve them.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 7 May, 2013
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  Try the canvas plugin, you can do what you want with it's paste object action.

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• • R0J0hound
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  • 19 Apr, 2013
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  The missing conditions are triggers and there can only be one trigger per event. So you'll only see them in events that aren't sub-events of a trigger and don't have a trigger in them already.

• • R0J0hound
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  • 18 Apr, 2013
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  Try reversing the order of your events.

  Edit... I'm too slow.