it exists, its called custom movement, just give some arbitrary vertical accel and voila. u can specify anything.

nahh back flip goes to a user at the stencyl forums who was all kinds of intelligent.

i made a game based on my friends random ideas once, i forgot what he said but it had to do with cows backflipping, jesus, foam finger #1's, milk jets, laser vision, and TMNT.

no need to mention, the game's full of damn win.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010927/HOLYCOW.exe

That's true but I hope one day maybe in Construct 2 it will be able to create a 3D side scroller/platformer like Megaman X7/8, it's already possible using 3D box and using sprites within a 3D layer but it's very limited as of yet, I can see this as a possible future for Construct that 3D box could be improved and not forgotten, I am not saying to scrap 2D altogether tough but 3D isn't as bad as many people make it seem.

the problem is general knowledge of math and such isnt enough for 3d programming. 3D isnt bad, its just very inacessible to most people because of the complicated math that comes with it inherently. not to mention collision detection, and angles are a whole other bag of worms in 3D.

construct really needs a way to handle big animations.

i dont know exactly how construct does it now but i think it just dumps everything into vram and runs?

i read a bit on this stuff and it looks like ever since 2d games existed, only background texture type stuff was loaded into VRAM, and then for animations, everything not needed isnt loaded, only the current animation frames needing to be drawn would be loaded into vram that game frame. so that would mean that vram usage isnt a problem unless the total amount of texture data needing to be rendered at a given frame would be really big. the problem most people are having is dealing with alot of frames, and no vram space to put it in, its rare that the total amount of texture data needing to rendered in one screen is too much for vram.

does construct have an option to this right now, or is it already?

what would be the advantage/disadvantage of this method.

and do you think it would be a good idea to have it for frame heavy games?

id like to see the devs' view on this and what the community thinks etc. discuss!

copy pasta

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i made a plant growy thing while i was bored, its kind of amusing for a bit

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1010927/DLA%20grower.cap

uses Diffusion-limited aggregation to grow.

press space to start it

space again to start over anew

repeat ect.

you can also draw a growing surface by clicking and dragging. it will be cleared when you press space twice.

yea my game seemed to have broken when i made a new layout using only the objects needed for the events, it turns out it was bad programming on my part, but the problem only seemed to appear on the second layout.

did you try using it as a layer effect on the foreground layer?

NVM: i just looked at your cap

id rather do it myself.

first off, make posts about getting help, in the HELP forum. your tutorials is made for tutorials obviously.

where to start?

well first off, do you know about the random expression?

random(VALUE) it a random number between 0 and what you input. remember that if you put a number, its not going to ever return the number you gave, but instead integer every number below it including 0. so random(10) would give you 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 but never 10.

after you know about that expression your gonna need an object for branches, that you spawn and then at its end you spawn more branches, always setting theyre length and angle to a random value.

then youd need some cutoff point and a leaf spawner. not gonna go into anymore detail you figure it out!

changed a few things relating to mesh distortion, & made a mesh distortion article.

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ ... istort_Map

feel free to fix the formatting up im not very experienced with wiki writing.