VIKINGS's Forum Posts

  • Not sure about the best simple way of doing this, but here's how I would approach it:

    1. I would edit the animation of the "phone" object and add another image point and place that point in the upper-left corner of the "phones" "screen".

    2. Then I would take the other sprites, I make them initially invisible and set their origin points to 0, 0.

    3. Then I would make events if sprite position(x, y) is equal to the position(x,y) of the "phones" image point, then set sprite x visible.

    If it's not equal then set it back to invisible. And do that for both sprites, or if you have more sprites, create a family put them in it, and then do that event for the family.

  • YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! See guys( LittleStain nimos100 ) that's what I'm talking about!!!!

    It worked, it's simple, it's easy and now I can get on with my life!

    Thank you so so very very much Magistross , awesome idea!!!!

  • I know that j0schi but:

    1. Why should I have to do that?

    2. Just cause there is an alternative doesn't mean you shouldn't report bugs.

    3. What do you think is easier for my music/sound volume: a "do it yourself" event sheet with half a page full of events with complicated formulas/actions in them in order to make my own slider; or using the sliderbar(beeing able to hide it so I can cover it with some nice sprites that fit the theme/look of my game) and then having one event on sliderbar changed action set volume to sliderbar value?

  • Sigh... Well then I guess I have to eighter wait for Ashley to fix the invisible bug(I've submited a bug report) or use one of those methods and make it myself.

    I was sooo hoping there was a quick, easy and simple method of hiding the sliderbar, I had no idea it was a Dom element or that those elements where drawn above the canvas....

    Anyway, thank you guys.

  • Problem Description

    ____ The sliderbar stops working if you set it to invisible.____

    Attach a Capx

    ____ https://www.dropbox.com/s/35vcjhkg5zrru ... g.rar?dl=0 ____

    Description of Capx

    ____ The capx puts a sprite "above" the sliderbar and has 2 events to make it follow the movement of the slider. The whole idea is to cover up that ugly sliderbar with your own sprites. But of course we know you can't actually do that because(as I recently learned) the sliderbar is a Dom element, and those elements float above the canvas. So the next logical step is to set the sliderbar property "Initial visibility" to invisible. If you do that the sliderbar doesn't work anymore. ____

    Steps to Reproduce Bug

      Step 1 [Run the capx and see that the sprite follows the slider, and everything works fine.] Step 2 [Set the sliderbar object property "Initial visibility" to invisible.] Step 3 [Run the capx again.]

    Observed Result

    _____The slider no longer moves/works if set to invisible. ____

    Expected Result

    ____The sliderbar should keep working regardless if it's set to invisible or not. ____

    Affected Browsers

      [YES] Chrome: (YES/NO) [YES] FireFox: (YES/NO) [YES] Internet Explorer: (YES/NO)

    Operating System and Service Pack

    ____ Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit(6.1, Build 7601) ____

    Construct 2 Version ID

    ____ Release 200 (64-bit) ____

  • I've said this before and I'll say it again.

    Olso(from everything I've learned so far, correct me if I am wrong guys) the most important thing isn't how powerful your hardware is, but how you design your game.

    If you design your game poorly(too many effects, too big resolutions on your sprites, poor code/too many every tick events, etc.) then theoretically you can bring any pc/tablet/phone/etc. to a crawl, no matter how powerful it is, even with a 2D engine...

  • Replacing the every tick events in this capx is hardly an effort..

    And how would you modify that capx to not use every tick for example?

    If you were to set the slider-bar invisible and use sprites to influence it, it would be much the same as the link I gave except for the extra slider-bar object..

    Yeah, expect for the fact that the stupid sliderbar stops working if you set it to invisible.... I'm not sure if that's a bug, or if it's supposed to be that way, but it just doesn't work while invisible....

  • No, it wouldn't zenox98 . Because, like I said above, it works perfectly well in the browser, so a capx would be useless. What I am talking about is how it works once it's exported, wrapped and installed on an actual device...

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  • I already had that capx downloded LittleStain , and I already had 2 problems with it:

    a) It uses an every tick event, and I would like to keep the use of every tick to an absolute minimum.

    b) It has a blank even, probably a mistake or oversight from it's creator, so I wouldn't know what to put in that event if I tried to replicate it.

    Here's what I mean by blank event:

    And while it is less complicated then the other example capx that I was referring to, it's still way more complex then using the sliderbar(if I could hide it) and then just basically having 1 event on sliderbar changed action set volume to sliderbar value....

  • Soooo.... nothing?

  • Hello World,

    So I want to make 2 sliders for the music&sounds volume in my game. As such I have 2 options(I think only these 2) to use the sliderbar plugin or to make a sliderbar myself, manually with events.

    The first option is obviously the easiest, and the one I'd rather go with, but we all know the problem with that one, the sliderbar looks like absolute ***.... So I figured I'd just cover it up with some sprites.

    I already got the events to make the sprites mimic the sliderbar movement(I'll show them at the end of the post in case anyone is curious), but the problem is the stupid sliderbar always stays on top, as you can see in the picture below.

    I tried puttin my sprites on a higher layer, I tried giving that layer force own texture and using blend mode on the sprites, I tried setting the sliderbar itself to invisible(which stupidly enough makes it stop working altogheter...) nothing helped.

    So pleeeeaaaasseeee, is there any way to cover up that ugly looking thing with my sprites?!?!?! I really don't want to have to make my own sliderbar from events, I found an example capx but it looks quite complicated....

    Thank you.

    P.S. As promised here are the events for making the sprite follow the sliderbar, if anyone is interested.

  • It would be best to make new topics and give each topic a very descriptive title that relates to your problem.

    "How do I make games like these" is too generic and most people might not even read the topic because they might think "Ahhh, it's just another noob who is too lazy to spend some time learning how C2 works and he is immediately asking if he can make the next Crysis game or something.".

    And after you have successfully resolved the issues of that particular topic edit the first post and add [SOLVED] at the begining of the title.

  • Just do what you want to do, use whatever program you want, keep working hard and don't listen to people.

    Cause if you're gonna make it or not that's gonna be based mostly on you and the work you put in.

    Do you really think if you take someone now and tell that person in what program Flappy Bird(for example) was made he's gonna care, or he's gonna stop playing it?! NOOO, if he likes the game he's still gonna like it, if he doesn't then he still won't....

  • Ok, I'll go with signed and little then. Thank you.

    And by the way that's the same site I'm using to convert TiAm .

  • Hello World,

    So I found a track on a site that I'd like to use in my game, I downloaded it but sadly it's mp3. So I'm using another site to convert it to wav(since I am too lazy to reinstall my avs audio editor), and this site gives me 4 options for the 16bit pcm format:

    PCM signed 16-bit big-endian

    PCM signed 16-bit little-endian

    PCM unsigned 16-bit big-endian

    PCM unsigned 16-bit little-endian

    Which is the best option for C2 signed or unsigned, and big or little endian?

    Thank you.

    P.S. For those that don't even know what those things mean, but are curious to learn check this link.