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  • 1 Sep, 2012
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  I think he used 'snapshot canvas'.

• • sqiddster
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  • 1 Sep, 2012
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  Put all your solid objects in a family, then test for collision with that family?

• • sqiddster
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  • 1 Sep, 2012
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  Tom before you remove it, could you change its name to 'ruin my work' and leave it up for a day or so? ;)

• • sqiddster
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  You never know when this moderator abuse could happen. I have a suspicion, in fact that DISREGARD THIS I'M AN IDIOT

• • sqiddster
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  Construct 2 is by far the best choice for this. The engine does everything but 'get in the way'.

  In fact, I'd say using anything else would be overkill.

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• • sqiddster
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  I just spotted this too ;)

  Very classy.

  "Dear THE BORDER AGENCY,

  Today I don't have much to do and there are many hours remaining. I've never been border.

  Can you help me out then? If you have any ideas what I can do?

  -Thomas Gullen"

• • sqiddster
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  I really doubt this. If we could prevent it, the 'dodgy' people certainly could...

• • sqiddster
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  I followed the link to the new 'the team' page and found a very interesting blog...

  Basically, it seems Tom spends time making a menace of himself instead of working on this website <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle">

  (I must say, it's highly amusing)

• • sqiddster
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  • 1 Sep, 2012
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  I've done this before, just use sprites as your particles. make them bullets, then do something like:

  every tick:

  repeat X timer:

  -->create particle

  -->set particle angle random(360)

  --> move forward random(lower bound, upper bound)

  --> rotate 180 clockwise

  That will create particles around the point, pointing towards it.

• • sqiddster
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  • 31 Aug, 2012
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  Not possible, unless R0J0hound knows some magic with the canvas plugin.

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  • 31 Aug, 2012
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  Didn't know that sprite.dt existed! There you go. Heh.

• • sqiddster
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  • 31 Aug, 2012
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  Hmm, that might actually work!

  Good idea!

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  zsangerous

  That seems like an awful lot of work when you can just pause the game effectively in one event, setting timescale to 0.

• • sqiddster
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  • 31 Aug, 2012
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  Hey all,

  I was just wondering what you guys to do allow movement (say, motion within the pause menu) while the game is at timescale = 0?

  I really have not figured out the best way to do this. Of course I can just eliminate dt from my expressions, but I feel dirty doing that ;)

  What do you guys think?

• • sqiddster
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  • 31 Aug, 2012
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  I think the 8-direction engine is pushing you back before you have a change for testing collision. Either add an invisible detector sprite with a bigger collision area, or use 'overlapping at offset'.