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  • Have you tried simply setting the X position of the tiled background to ScrollXLeft in an always event?

  • Okay you guys, what made you think it was okay to mess with my precious cap files? <img src="smileys/smiley19.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

    Joking aside, I don't think this needs to be turned into a true tutorial. It's fine how it is and will be found by interested parties making a little effort digging through the forums. Gropwel proved it.

  • Something similar can also be achieved by simply using lights and the shadowcaster effect like you are used to for dynamic lights. You'll get the "tilebased" light effect by applying the pixellate effect with the appropriate resolution to the layer.

    Isn't too fast either, because of shadowcasters, but it's definitely useable. Here's the described method quickly applied to Somebody's example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2306601/TraceRay_dl.cap

  • Seems like there will be some exciting possibilites on the horizon pretty soon!

    Appmobi even mentions Construct 2 on their site btw: http://www.appmobi.com/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/10

  • Good list. Seems to be missing lucid's file dialogue plugin though.

  • When I click preview, it basically freezes C2 with a little window saying "Starting preview". But of course nothing happens.

  • I was working with r53 for a bit just now and unfortunately it happened again. At least I have a hunch now what triggers it.

    When I make changes to a project, then close Construct and click on "Don't save" in the appearing dialog, the exe seems to remain and can't be terminated anymore. Restarting Construct 2 will work, but one can't preview anymore as mentioned.

    Not 100% sure that's what causes it for me, but at least it just happened that way.

  • I admit that the concept of a completely open handheld console is somewhat intriguing.

    What's a bit weird to me is that they say their target demographic will be children ages 6-12. Which makes some sense, cause older teenagers are very likely to have a mobile phone, which they probably use for quick and dirty gaming on the road anyway.

    But how do the games exactly reflect that demographic? They talk about new, more powerful 16bit games. While the games that are on display seem like random hobby creations for the most part, which are thrown together by an individual in Gamemaker. The whole concept seems to more likely fit a cheap console for nerds, where one can easily develop games and share. I mean it's even called inDie, right. So yeah, I can see the proximity to Game Park handhelds inkBot implied.

    The whole idea of giving away the console with happy meals and cinema tickets would potentially make it interesting for companies I guess, and does in fact fit the kids console pretension. Although I have to say that a basically disposable console like that would also be a very wasteful thing.

    If this really is going to see the light of day and won't disappear right away either, a C2 exporter would indeed be intriguing like Jayjay mentioned. It's also a desired feature according to their FAQ: "In the future there may be even easier opportunities for game development, such as a mouse based editor. (think RPG Maker)". If that's ever gonna happen, it should indeed be Construct.

  • Ah my bad then, looking forward to the next build! <img src="smileys/smiley9.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

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  • I've added these for the next build:

    find, replace, left, mid, right, tokenat, tokencount, trim

    ('remove' is just a 'replace' with an empty string.)

    Did I miss any?

    That's very awesome Ashley! I believe you covered all the important expressions there. Maybe uppercase and lowercase would also be desirable for certain tasks.

  • I miss them. There's so much one could do right now with precious expressions like

    find, remove, replace, left, right, gettoken, mid...

    I only noticed that there was the expression len to get the string length so far.

    Several engines I did in Classic could already work in C2, if only it wasn't missing some of those expressions. I suspect it wouldn't be too laborious to add, so let me carefully ask: will we see more text expressions soon?

  • Recently I have been more active and working quite a bit with Construct 2. Most of time I get to a point where I can't preview the project anymore and I found out that it was due to multiple Construct2.exe instances still running, and unfortunately they cannot be terminated through the task manager (or some other software I tried).

    Sometimes I suddenly have up to 7 instances sitting there, eating away at my RAM. This is very annoying, since one has to restart the computer in order to fix the issue. Anyone else got the same trouble or knows what might cause this? If this is a known problem I totally missed it so far.

    I'm using Windows 7 Home 64bit btw.

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