Thanks, that might be worth a try.

Ah, sadly it doesn't repeat the texture.. I tried the plugins by "somebody" that seemed to work, but then started getting weird vertical slicing effects in the image as I scrolled

I've been trying to implement a feature whereby a platform character can "hang" under a platform (activated by holding UP while jumping) and then be able move left and right while hanging under the platform

(reference games : gunstar heroes, super contra etc)

Getting the character to jump and hang wasn't an issue after looking at the ledge climb examples.

However as there is no platform under the character, I cannot jump out of this state, nor can I get the character to follow the contours of angled platforms.

Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thankyou! I'll take a look at that!

Hi all, hope someone has the time to answer.

In the old construct you could offset the X and Y position of an image used on a tiled background object.

is there any function, plugin or object to do this in Construct 2?

Thanks!

If you know how to make your enemy jump, why not just place an invisible "trigger" collision item in front of the obstacle to make the enemy jump over??

It`s how most oldschool 2D games used to do it..

So, my project is over? I've been over every possibility,probably over 100 times and the only thing that is repeatable is the "add more than 15 objects to another layout and stuff stops working". So avoiding the crash seems to be not add any more objects. Which means the end of the line.

If I was to rebuild the entire thing from scratch, using my old cap as reference, would I end up in the same situation? I guess thats a rhetorical question, as I won't know until I try it.

I have a pro game dev friend willing to look over the CC source if I could get the profUIS.dll but everyone who has posted on here saying they had a distribution license has ignored my PMs and mails..

My only other option is to pay several hundred bucks in the hope PROFUIS will be able to give me an outdated DLL file.

I really appreciate the assistance you and many others have given me over the years on this, but really, someone might wanna set up a sticky letting people know that there's a chance that people could be wasting their time and effort using CC to make something and end up in a situation as such as myself with an unknown and unfixable bug without being able to debug the CC source..

Shame because it's still a beast of a 2D engine, so long as you're not taking anything seriously..

8 years of work down the toilet.. and I was actually beginning to see the finish line.

Thanks for the response Rojo, butsince i removed every OR last time I got runtime errors, as per your instructions, I never used them again... and its the title screen that is affecting other layouts.. everything ran fine until I started on this title screen, I rolled back and started the title screen layout again with a minimal set of sprites that used no variables, and only one sprite that contained 3-4 private variables that simply toggled some selection options..

So to further test this, I deleted every event in the title screen layout, apart from 1 single button press on an xbox controller event to take me to the next layout..

RUNTIME ERROR

on the same stripped out title layout with the 1 event, I delete a load of objects..

runs fine...but depending on what objects I delete , some end up hanging on the game layout screen when they aren't even global objects.. but again and again, after wiping the entire layout,deleting all the layers, wiping the event sheet and just adding objects with no variables, as soon as I add more than 15-16 objects, it gives me the runtime error without fail.

even just previewing the main game layout alone gives me the error, but if i completely delete the title layout, it previews without issue.

any help is appreciated.. I've spent literally years working on this...

So, I have been adding a title screen to my work in progress game..

presently the layout order goes Title screen layout -> Character select layout ->main game layout

I set up a skybox background with 6 1024x1024 textures, on the title screen and have 22 objects in the layout..

I go to the next layout before the main game layout..(character select)

that runs fine.. go to the main game layout

RUNTIME ERROR

I roll back to about 8 saves before with a minimal title screen and just add the basic menu sprites to start redoing the title screen again, thinking there was that duplicate sprite name issue, and begin with about 8 small sprites to create an absolute minimum of assets to make a selectable menu before adding everything else..

main layout runs fine..

add about 4 more small sprites..

RUNTIME ERROR

go back to my full version with the skybox, the 1024x1024 textures, and delete random non essential sprites one by one, running it each time getting runtime errors, and at 5 sprites deleted..

character select -> main layout runs fine.. albeit with a sprite from the title screen appearing on screen (wtf)

reload the file again and delete completely different small sprites, and again run it every time i delete one, getting runtime errors at the main game layout every time, until I remove 5 sprites..

..main layout runs fine..again , with a sprite from the title screen appearing on screen (wtff)

reload the fully finished title screen version , try destroying a ton of objects before moving from title screen to pre- main loop layout..

go to main game loop layout : RUNTIME ERROR

reload it again, try unloading the title screen textures at the start of the next screen before the main layout..

go to main game loop layout : RUNTIME ERROR

half the size of all the skybox textures..

go to main game loop layout : RUNTIME ERROR

delete a ton of large graphics from the main game layout

RUNTIME ERROR

delete the whole skybox with 6 the 1024x1024 textures..

RUNTIME ERROR

can someone please tell me what the heck is happening?? I tried the repeat object name fixer cap and just got the same runtime error again

is there anything I can check, or do?? I'm losing my mind here...why are a few small sprites addint a few Kb causing this, and not a skybox with 5MB of textures? why is it exactly 5 of them?? Why the main layout and not the one before it?? it was all fine until I started working on an innocuous title screen.. I'm not using transitions, although there was one loaded, but even with it deleted, its still give the error, and there's no OR's..

Hi all, I have a rather perplexing issue, probably one thats a bit hard to explain

I have my game constantly scrolling, mostly vertical, but it also pans diagonally and on the X axis.. While it does the X panning to create diagonal or horizontal scroll movement, I have been attempting to stop my enemies moving off screen by setting the "flying enemy" layer scroll X ratio to zero, so that while it pans the enemies can stay above you.. that part works fine, I call it "X-locking" for short..

Now the initial lock works fine, but once I have scrolled, say, right for several hundred/thousand pixels, when I want to go back to normal vertical scrolling and release the "x lock" , I switch the "flying enemy layer" back to 100% scrolling and of course they layer just pops back to where it was several thousand pixels ago and everything disappears..

in the manual, it states that layer setting Scroll X / Scroll Y allows you to scroll a layer independently from other layers but I am unsure how this is executed.. It sounds like this is what I want, but have no idea how to control it...

I know that sounds kinda confusing, so to try and summarize , is there any way of forcing a single layer of moving objects to be occasionally locked to the center of the screen (while the enemies move about within it) and be able to switch this lock off, and keep the layer at the point it was released as opposed to leaping back to its origin?

if this is confusing I can try and make a simple cap to demonstrate or annotate a video of an arcade game that does the same..

thanks for the response, but due to varying scroll ratio changes, it moves around..

is there a mathematical way of setting it relative from a layer that never changes scroll ratio?

is this construct classic or construct 2 you are referring to? I cant see an anchor behavior in construct classic.