what do U and V displace do?

I would imagine that they would move the texture itself across the surface of the sprite (rather than displacing the sprite) but I can't test because I'm not on my Construct computer.

Is there a way to make good looking fire without ps? And does it work on any background?

Well the Flame effect is ps 2 only so, I'd guess not with that type of method. I'm sure someone can come up with a decent looking alternative. I've had some ok results with making a second sprite that's exactly the same as the first, only colored with a red and yellow gradient that I place behind the first sprite. It wasn't as good as the ps2 Flame effect, but it looked okay. Of course it would be a pain to make doubles of animated sprites like that, but hey.

And yeah, it works on any background.

maybe add some control to what colour you can light an object and a gradient like in the original mmf extension great work also! it seems pretty damn complex to make this.

I was just messing around with different effects on the plasma object to see if I could come up with some natural-looking fire, and hey guess what? The Flame effect works friggin beautifully. I was trying all sorts of things like making the Plasma a mask to cut through to a gradient underneath it and stuff, then I saw Flame and I was all like "how did I not notice that one before?"

Anyway, here it is:

http://www.fileshack.us/get_file.php?id ... e=fire.cap

Bam, instant fire. The Flame effect overrides the color information of the sprite you're pasting, and only goes off of the gradient you specify in the Flame effect itself. I bumped up the Clip Percentage a little to make the edges softer, but other than that it's all default settings.

It only happens in Construct. Everything else works fine. I seriously doubt it's my mouse.

I've had a strange bug happen to me twice now. The first time I thought it was Windows being stupid, but the second time happened again just a few minutes ago.

What happens is I open Construct by double-clicking a .cap (both times it's been one of David's examples.) Then I run a preview by hitting the button in the IDE. After closing out the preview, I can't select anything in the layout window by left-clicking. It behaves as though I'm middle-mouse clicking, and just drags the layout window around, but without changing the cursor to the 4-way drag cursor. I'm still able to select objects from the object list or click menus and tabs. I can still right-click and open the context menu in the layout, but if I do something like add a new sprite, when it comes time to click and place the sprite it won't register that I'm left-clicking.

Even when I close down Construct and re-open it, it still behaves this way. The only way to get it to go back to normal is to restart my computer.

Like I said, I thought it was a one-time fluke at first, but it's happened twice now, and both times since installing .97 (never happened with any previous versions.)

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Submitted to bugtracker.

Awesome. With a few tweaks it makes pretty nice looking smoke, too.

That's pretty neat.

I made a minor change to the .cap (click and drag the mouse around):

http://www.fileshack.us/get_file.php?id ... kybox2.cap

Oh man, didn't you have a backup? Or several?

Awesome, thank you David

Could someone post an example of how to use the mesh distortion feature? I can't figure out how to work it. No matter what numbers I put in, it just looks like the plain old default sprite (and yeah, I set up the mesh rows/columns in a Start of Layout event).

Yep, that did the trick I guess I was just thinking "put the light on the top layer, because lights come from overhead" or something.

Thanks for the help.

Ok, thanks Ash. That solves one problem.

My shadows are still rendering on top of the shadowcaster sprites though. Any suggestions there?

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