WackyToaster's Forum Posts

  • No idea, I'd have to try the project. A different although silly idea I had was to record 30 videos at the same time, all offset by 1 second. So when a highlight is requested you can just save the most recent one. But that's kind of an absurd solution.

    I also found some js implementations of ffmpeg, perhaps something could be done with this?

  • Since you're already writing custom behaviors, what about just doing it in js directly? Surely the stuff you're looking for can be done with some js. Arguably there are cases that the event engine will not be able to handle as elegantly, but most games don't actually require this amount of complexity.

    Doing it via events, I'd think of adding an array per instance, with strings that then call mapped functions per string. If a string doesn't exist, nothing is called or acted upon, so no further overhead.

  • Hey that's kinda cool. Sadly attacking doesn't seem to work for me, maybe because I'm on german keyboard layout (Z and Y are swapped). I tried hitting pretty much all keys available to me to no avail.

  • Still kind of hard to tell what actually is going on but regardless, it's very unusual that mobile browsers would work different.

    Wild guess, but you have 2 "wait 0.75 seconds" actions inside the every "1.5 seconds" condition. So perhaps there is some weird overlap happening due to some rounding error. Maybe changing the second wait to be slightly shorter could fix it?

    Otherwise you'll have to post the project to check out because I don't think anyone can find out what would cause this without being able to check out the project myself.

  • You may be seing ghosting/blurring artifacts that are actually caused by your monitor rather than Construct. You can check this if you make a screenrecording, then play the recording and pause at a moment where the effect occurs. If it goes away the moment you pause, it is most likely your monitor having ghosting.

    You can also check testufo.com which has a bunch of tests and examples where you can check if your monitor is ghosting.

  • The engine is perfect to onboard non-programmers into programming. The eventsheets work surprisingly close to regular javascript, they just don't look like it and seem less obscure to a nooby than a bunch of textblocks with weird cryptic looking words. So by working with eventsheets, you also learn the overall logical structure that javascript uses without noticing it.

    Also as a general thing, not compared to a gameengine but rather specifically adobe. The support is just peak. You post a bug, you'll get at least an answer even if the answer is no. Adobe on the other hand... lol. I've had a bug with photoshop that would freeze photoshop when I use a wacom graphics tablet. No real solutions found to be anywhere, other users have the same problem. I've went through different iterations of photoshop, windows software, pc hardware and tablet hardware/drivers over the years and I've always ran into this problem again and again. Other drawing software works perfectly fine, so the issue clearly has to be fixed from Adobes side. It is unfixed to this very day in 2024 (I recently bought a new tablet, thought I'd give it another try and behold, the same issue again), I've first encountered the issue in ~2012, and repeatedly since then. It's been reported to Adobe multiple times by me and others, no fix for well over a decade.

    Alright that's enough adobe slander for today.

  • It's always hard to debug projects without actually having the project at hand. The codeblock you copypasted is also just kinda hard to read, a screenshot of the events is better. But ideally you can provide a project file that demonstrates the issue.

    One guess could be that "Wait 0.75 seconds" leads to some kind of issue. Wait in general is tricky to use and can lead to a bunch of problems.

    Also what exactly is a "duplication error in the first digit"? Can you post a comparison between the error and what the result actually should look like?

  • I gave my idea a shot but unfortunately I'm running into the issue that I cannot just discard older chunks. I'm assuming the first chunk aka the beginning contains some vital information/header, so the recording gets corrupted once the 30 second mark is passed because that first chunk gets removed. Keeping it also does not properly work and just creates some nice visual glitches in the resulting video if it works at all.

    I found very little information on this and no real solutions. Not sure if there is some kind of magic one could employ to get this to work. The only possible solution I saw (although in a different context) was this stackoverflow.com/questions/42127276/trim-or-cut-audio-recorded-with-mediarecorder-js

    But I have no clue how to actually implement this since it's for audio and not video.

    I can't post the c3p right now but here's the relevant js code which almost works but alas. 

    	export class ReplaySystem {
	constructor() {
		this.stream = document.querySelector("canvas").captureStream();
		this.highlightDuration = 10;
		
		this.mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(this.stream, {"mimeType": "video/webm"});
		this.mediaRecorder.ondataavailable = this.dataAvailable.bind(this);
		
		this.replay = [];
	}
	
	startRecording() {
		this.mediaRecorder.start(1000);
		console.log("Recording started");
	}
	
	stopRecording() {
		this.mediaRecorder.stop();
		this.replay = [];
		console.log("Recording stopped");	
	}
	
	addChunk(chunk) {
		this.replay.push(chunk);
		if(this.replay.length > this.highlightDuration) {
			this.replay.shift();
		}
	}
	
	dataAvailable(ev) {
		this.addChunk(ev.data);
	}
	
	captureHighlight(runtime) { 
		const highlight = new Blob(this.replay, {type: 'video/webm'});
		const url = URL.createObjectURL(highlight);
		
		runtime.callFunction("downloadHighlight", url);
	}
}

  • One of the feedbacks that I've seen pop up constantly is that "Scirra needs to release new features as early as possible so users can give feedback before everything is set in stone". So releasing early you cannot expect the feature to be fleshed out and perfect after a few weeks. I just think the flowcharts need more time to cook, and I hope they will indeed be cooking. Arcweave seems to have been around since 2018, and it's a dedicated tool for just this task, so I'm not surprised that it's much more fleshed out at this point.

    These examples are really good btw., very simple yet obvious use cases that should work.

  • I've looked around a bit and I think your best bet is to go the javascript route. It might not be as hard as it seems at first.

    Use the mediarecorder api, which I assume is what the plugin also uses under the hood

    developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaRecorder

    Specifically note this part

    MediaRecorder.start()

    Begins recording media; this method can optionally be passed a timeslice argument with a value in milliseconds. If this is specified, the media will be captured in separate chunks of that duration, rather than the default behavior of recording the media in a single large chunk.

    So you can specifiy to automatically record chunks of 1 second. Every second from then on will fire the dataavailable event.

    Within this event you can store the created data chunks however you please (e.g. an array of 30 for 30 seconds of recording)

    Then when the user requests the highlight you can combine them like so (and I think this should generate a blob url that you can then invoke a download on) 

    function play() {
 var superBuffer = new Blob(recordedChunks);
}

    It's basically what citron2010 suggested but handling it in js is going to be much easier than doing some roundabout way in events.

    EDIT: It should also avoid the issue with requesting permission. This should only request permission once, when the recording starts. After that it's just a continous recording, that you can tap in at any given moment to extract the last 30 seconds from.

  • I'd say this is not exactly a properly made tilemap, at least in the context of constructs tilemaps. This tilemap seems to assume that tiles can simply be stacked over each other (as if you have multiple layers of tilemaps) whereas the tilemap in construct is 1 layer, so tiles cannot stack, period. You can either create the missing tiles you need on your own or you can stack multiple tilemaps on top of each other to emulate the layering (I do not recommend that, it's going to be arduous to work with)

  • Not that I'm aware off. Worst case I assume it has some performance overhead which is not really a drawback but a trade-off.

    ...or else it wouldn't be something off by default

    The reality is it's probably off by default simply because most layers don't need to be HTML layers. It would make no sense to make it a default if by default it's not needed.

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  • Hmm I don't think this is possible with the build in plugin. The first issue is that, as you noticed, there's no way of deleting part of the ongoing recording. Deleting it before download may be possible, but it will still continously record footage, possibly until it runs out of memory (and crashes or something).

    Not sure how I'd tackle this problem.

  • I'd go the array route.

    1. Array with your dataset

    2. Sort Array based on amount

    3. Loop through array, copy the current entry into another Array. Compare the "loopindex" amount with the "loopindex+1" amount. If the comparison is true, repeat the loop, otherwise stop the loop.

    4. You now have an array that contains all fruits that tied for the highest amount (one or more)

    5. You can output a random entry from that array like Array.At(floor(random(0,Array.length+1)))

  • Yes, overlapping buttons can cause both of them to be clicked. When you hide a layer (or overlay something), you should probably also set it to non-interactive (system > set layer interactive)