im sort of slightly unsure about one thing though. do we have to have the game completed before december 1st? do we need to have something to show on december 1st? or is this simply the day the compo begins, and people can start entering there stuff/sign up there game until the compo deadline which would be january 10th or something? or do we need to say were entering by December 1st, and have until the deadline to work on it?

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reminds me of Swarm mixed with gratuitous space battles. nice job so far!

count me in seeing as ive already started my entry

its not really useless aeal. having subtle 3d can add a lot. were not trying to make a game in 3d space here. just having 3d assets for things like backgrounds or 3d graphics on a 2d game plane ( like a spaceship thats 3d in a side scrolling shooter). having the ability to do this easily would be very nice. my at school demo wouldve looked alot more boring if the pencil were just a sprite. but having a simple 3d asset made it really cool looking. if adding a 3d asset was simpler than inventing your own rotation algorithm, and building an object out of willynilly points with special events just to handle sticking polygons to those points wouldn't you think that would be kinda nice? its not required, but its things like this that make construct set the bar, and the reason we all fell in love with it in the first place, don't ruin that like so many before it have because they lost sight of their original goal.

A reboot of my old 3D proof of concept with all the new features available to Sprite displacement since then (Z axis, Z buffer, etc).

I'll upload an exe once I get a bit further and make things more efficient (Backface culling, etc).

Model borrowed from http://www.3dtake.com/2009/08/girl-3d-m ... tures.html.

awesome, is that using events or a custom plugin?

reminds me of a lewis diagram

windows controls will always appear on top, solution: don't use them they're glitchy crap anyways, make your own buttons. now a button object to make different types of controls easy to make would be nice.

id think using a simple collision detection mechanic with offset collisions tests for the part you move would work.

its the exact same thing, just make sure your hot spot on the sprite is where you want the "clicking zone" to be, since the top left corner of the mouse (THE POINT) is where the object will be positioned.

so if you had an image of a mouse cursor, youd put the hotspot at the top left so that it behaves like a real mouse.

a cursor object is redundant and useless, as it would essentially be doing the exact same thing as this.

no games ever actually change the cursor, they just use this method.

sounds like fun, ill see if i can get time for this.