Alright, can you guys simply re-download it and tell me if it's faster now? I turned off the motion blur, turned on the 'Run without PS' option and fixed that freaking scrolling bug in the second layout (the player model was set to the background layer and not to the base layer).

I don't have an older machine at hand right now, would be interesting to know if it's just the motion blur that kills the performance or if there's something else at work. I also capped the res at 720p now.

Edit: Oops, I'm totally hi-jacking this thread. I should probably open up my own, so we don't fill up this one

I post a version without moBlur later on - It's weird that its so slow for you guys, I don't have the slightest lag, would be interesting to see if it's just the moBlur.

Really? It's super smooth for me. I have motion blur set to 10x for this, maybe that's the problem? I could imagine that some older gpus have trouble with that.

Haha, yeah, there are a couple of silhouette-style games out there now. Limbo has definitely influenced me, even though it never was finished. Patapon also was a nice experience. And then there's a shortfilm called Jasper Morello which just blew me away.

I'll try to give the whole thing my own twist though. The main idea was to come up with something where a simple plate could be created in under 10 minutes (the woods plate I posted didn't even take 5 minutes for the pure creation part) and where I could implement 3d elements without having to go through the whole production pipeline (fixing UVs, texturing, etc.) - so you could create animated 3d elements in a very, very short amount of time.

The beauty of the whole thing is that I can simply concept everything in photoshop, create some dynamics like animated grass in Maya (even though the sprite editor is still really cumbersome when it comes to importing animation frames, hope the next version is better in that regard) and simply layout everything in Construct where I can still play around with layers and parallax scrolling and so on, to give the level compositions way more depth and believability.

After working for quite a bit of time in 3d, I SO love this workflow, it really helps staying focused on what's really important, you can make changes really quickly, etc. - it's just freaking awesome.

I uploaded an early composition test I did two weeks ago here:

http://www.thomasmahler.com/files/corrupted_01.exe

Move around with the arrow keys, jump with Z, Tab to go to the next layout.

Keep in mind that the style wasn't yet fully worked out, so it looks a bit clunky. Still, I do intend of using simple brush strokes to suggest environmental elements. It's almost like you can storyboard a game while the engine is simple enough to create the game while you're going. Lovin' it!

Oh, and I temporarily used tracks from the Princess Mononoke Soundtrack to set the mood

This is a reminder/poke at David, who's the only one who can do them.

*poke*

QFP.

Quoted for poking.

Been working on something...:

http://thomasmahler.com/images/corrupted_01.jpg

I was looking for a style that wouldn't take too much time to create, yet still had an appealing look to it. The nice thing is that I can mix this style with pre-rendered 3d and dynamics and just pop it all into Construct. It looks a bit better in the actual game where everything is on its own layer, simulating depth.

Also, it'd be great if we could 'hide' objects in the layout editor. So we could select an object and press H to hide it and if we wanna unhide it shift + H. A lot of times it's a little cumbersome right now to organize things, especially because of the ordering.

Would be cool if we could simply select a couple of objects and press CTRL + G to put them into a folder. That's how you put layers into a folder in Photoshop or group objects together in Maya - would feel pretty natural.

To follow deadeyes thought: If nothing is selected and I RMB - create new folder, I'd have a clean, empty folder. If objects are selected and I RMB - create new folder, the selected objects should directly go into the folder.

A little streamlining goes a loooong way into making the app easier to work with

Nah, no problem, I'll tell you before my host is gonna kill me, but I think we should have more than enough bandwidth

I'll keep doing these vids once my new project is a little more... presentable. They're fairly quick to do and will probably help new users get into the app really quickly - together with deadeyes platforming school thingy and the wiki itself.

The rotate behavior's speed is a float, so you should be able to give it a decimal value.

If I set the speed to 0.3, the value automatically jumps to 0 and the object won't rotate at all. If I set it to 1 it rotates, but it's a tad too fast.

Wow, this'd be awesome to have built in as a behavior! This is really cool stuff.

Yeah, I definitely think we'll see things like that pop up using Construct pretty soonish.

Construct already is capable of handling all the graphics with parallax layers and transparency / motion and all that kinda stuff, it's still a bit of a pain in the cashews (heh, I like that ) to work with animation though. The easier it'll be to bring detailed animations into Construct, the more gorgeous the games will look like.

I'm currently working on something really interesting, but the bugs and crashes keep the pace down. Also, there are still some workflow issues that probably stem from the app still being in its infancy when it comes to indie development and having to be pulled through a whole production until it's really stable. I'm talking about things like running a layout to just check a certain part of the game and Construct not loading the global objects or generally not being able to organize things properly at the moment - things that might not be completely obvious at first, but bite you in the nuts when you're actually dealing with it.

I think it'll be really interesting if we mix and match the mediums to get the most ouf of what construct has to offer. I'm doing full 2d now where only the characters are 3d and rendered out with an alpha channel, so I can import the sprites into Construct. I think all of this will lead to some pretty interesting results.