You are spending a lot of energy on the INI protection. Sure, it grants you invaluable experience, but shouldn't you be focusing on the main project at hand?

Simple solutions oft prove to be the best. In this case, you can opt to save the INI file with no extension or obfuscated extension (not .txt nor .ini), by doing so you will stop about 80% of players from editing the file. MD5 hashing and such would only stop like 15% of the remaining 20%.

The 5% will find a way to hack into it in any case - most likely by editing values in memory.

In the future, as our projects get more serious, we'll want serious protection as well. By then, we'd have a need for encryption of some kind - scrambling the text and using a certain key to decode the content. Perhaps a plugin could be developed for that purpose, who knows?

Just my two (broken) cents.

Turn off scripting. That needs python libraries.

Could save it at the start of layout, then set to that saved value when needed. It is called outsourcing, I guess

Yes, use variables for parameters, that works

Hmm, now that I remember, I am the most creative and motivated whenever I am walking somewhere. Long walks usually produce the most 'creative energy'.

Which usually evaporates as soon as I sit down and check forums or stuff.

If function uses parameters, you have to add parameters BEFORE you call function.

Like this:

Function: Add parameter 1

Function: Call Function "function_name"

+On function "function_name"

Text: Set text to Function.Param(1)

^ this shows 1 in text

Function parameters have to be added before call!

Your second image is correct, it makes parameters BEFORE it calls function.

Hmm... so we can make a sprite with power-of-two image behave like a tiled background, with added bonus of animations and other features sprite has over tiledbackground object?

Very difficult to understand you. Can you explain with other words, an example?

Utter failure reporting! Haven't made any games in months now, been writing but scrapping all drafts. All I can do is be a smart *** on some forums.

Hmm... what about the height map? It could be merged into actual image to simulate shadows. A hacky solution, but hey, it works.

It needs a 3D model, yes.

Consider the following.

The sooner Construct is fleshed out and released, the sooner it will attract a large number of users from the whole spectrum, from enthusiasts to skilled programmers. Among those skilled programmers, there will be a few who will begin developing plugins on their own.

All it takes is for Construct to reach the production release. So, we need to find and report bugs, help Construct become stable, see it get 1.0 version. After that, its popularity will skyrocket and see many plugin developers.