Here is the latest version of my advanced object creator its pretty much the same as the Create Object by name but it has the option to set the angle right in the paramaters. I cleaned it up recently so some of the params may be funky if thats the case please post in my thread on the plugin forum.

Advanced Object Creator

You go to program files>Scirra>Construct>Plugins

Put the first .csx in that folder then open the runtime folder and put the .csx in the runtime folder in there.

Yeah there is nothing in the folder so Im not quite sure what happened there.

There are ways to create level editors and save the levels and load them back in using .ini files or ive heard of hash tables being used.

I dont really know what you mean by make your game with an "infinite" number of levels. If your talking about random dungeon generation there are a few people currently experimenting with it.

Other than that the layout editor is really your "Map Maker"

I'm not quite sure what else your looking for.

There are major IDE updates planned for the next build (.99) there are some old threads that have mock ups. I would wait and see what that looks like considering the current IDE is about to undergo some major changes from what I under stand.

I just took a look at your game and see that I cant really run it. there is major slow down. What do you have mo blur set to? I didnt bother to try anything else because I cant even walk around with out the game stuttering.

Anyways Im sure youll figure out how to make a better optimized engine as you use construct more. Welcome to the forums

Got a new version for you this one is cleaner and has the layer defined at 1 automatically now.

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What if I want to take away the control of the character? So, I'd stop the player input and let the character do something pre-defined and afterwards the character would be able to take control of the character again. But how to pre-define anything? Can I somehow record and save what I've been doing?

well if your character controls the character why not ask him nicely to do it ? Ive found asking my characters to do want I want helpful.

but Seriously timeline works well. If your having characters talk you can play animations according to the text that is displayed(Text =" Whatever"-> play animation "Dont go there"). using animation frames(Animation frame is = to 8->Write text"Girlfriend" ) or checking if your text is equal to the target text can trigger the next step by incrementing a variable (Globalvariable=10 -> player stop ignoring input).

No you didnt miss anything it really does work that way. I never really find having sprites and such set to global a good thing. I usually right click the layout in the layout menu and clone it.

The only stuff I would mark global would be things like mouse and keyboard function object and any object that does not show in the layout. and if you do clone the layout make sure to delete any gobal objects so you dont have two instances running at the same time. so here it is in list form:

Dont make visible objects global.

Clone the layout instead of making a new one.

Delete any global Non-layout stuff from the layout(Mouse and keyboard,Function,etc)

The reason I never have visible object global is because if you go to another layout it will stay in the original layout and you will have two instances going at the same time so its better to keep them not global and just have an instance in every layout.

Fun for about the first day then its just an addiction.

Why not just make the function global then you dont need it in every layout.

You could just do

"Attack key is down." -> Set attacking to 1

else -> attacking = 0

Thats if there is a prize. That is just for submitting stuff to their site not even the compo.