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http://www.scirra.com/files/timescaling.zip

Demo of the new Timescaling ability coming in the next build - allows for slow-motion (and fast-motion!) effects.
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Containers create and destroy together, but they also all pick together in the events. If an event picks one of the instances in the container, all instances in the container are picked.
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I said it is NOT FOR ME...

Hehe, never heard that one before

Anyways, this is not an ethics committee. Closing.
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A lot of games disallow bot or assisted gameplay, counting it as cheating, and actively look for bot accounts and ban them. You should play the game the same way everybody else does!
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Sprites ARE textures on quads, but traditionally your trapezioid-shaped graphics come from using ordinary rectangular quads and viewing them at a 3D angle - in 2D, top down, you're actually just squashing the texture in to a funny shape. Still, a 3D sprite object is possible - it'd work like a single-faced 3D box object.
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I think you'd have to write a shader for this. I'm not sure all video cards can render distorted quads (eg. not just skewed but with perspective, and edges of differing length and not parallel to the opposite side) in 2D, without using actual 3D rendering. But I'll see if I can get something working.
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That's a good start. I think plugin documentation should be like a reference, comprehensively defining what every action, condition and expression does. However for objects like INI, a general overview of how the INI file works is very useful too, because it's particularly relevant. Thanks for doing the page!
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Sorry, you can't do this in Construct at the moment. Somebody would have to write a plugin. I don't have time!
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This has been reported a couple of times, and I think I know what's happening and how other programs are conflicting with Construct. I'm on it.
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Nice example! Just an idea about the shadow snapping up levels... maybe if you used 2 objects and changed their width and height, you could have a shadow half way up a slope.
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Yeah, was there anything about a Visual C++ redistributable install in there before it happened? Does rebooting help? Did Construct crash before it happened?
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The RTS movement moves and pathfinds based on a top-down grid - it won't work properly if you try and crowbar it in to a 2D isometric pattern like that. It's still using squares, it won't line up in any sensible way. You could try keeping an offscreen top-down map of the play area, then use the isometric view to display what is happening on the 2D offscreen map. That's how pathfinding is usually done in an isometric game.

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