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Construct is actually pretty good at handling big arrays. If you're talking a mahusive cave system, and you're worried about the amount of sprites at one time killing your framerate, try getting it to create a sprite only when that part of the cave is on-screen and destroy it when its offscreen. I made something like that ages ago, but for the life of me I can't remember where I put it or how I did it... But it did work quite well.

Cool, thanks! That's the first step. Now for the hard part. I want to make a side-view, "cross-section" platformer as opposed to a to top-down game, where you can destroy and create tiles. Sort of like a 2D minecraft.

That means I've got to do a few things I don't know how to do:

• Establish a "ground level" that varies with hills and mountains, etc.
• Dirt is almost inevitable at that "ground level", and get's less and less likely as the distance from the ground level increases.
• As you get deeper and deeper, you get more and more stone until stone is inevitable. Similarily for empty air.

As far as I can tell, this means creating some kind of function to replace the Perlin Noise. Any thoughts?

Heya there.

I'm trying to get Construct to generate a grid of tiles, with a predefined width and height of the grid. I also need to be able to give the squares a semi-random private variable that will determine what kind of 'terrain' that they will be - dirt, stone, air, etc.

I've thought about using an array or loops to do this but I have no idea how they work. Anyone have any idea how to do this?

Thanks

Any suggestions? My art skills really don't extend past what you see in the screenshot.

8x8 characters I can barely manage, but things like backgrounds and bigger stuff I'm shockingly bad at.

Work from high resolution into low. Use source images for everything, even stylised graphics.

Nice work! A side note - this did quite annoyingly hijack my mouse. I reccomend you stick an escape function in there.

I don't know if this one is in any of the newer versions past .62, but...

-Option for exact duplication of a layout, including all events and objects - sometimes you want a layout that's exactly like the one you've already made but with minor differences, and recopying code is inefficient and time-consuming if you have a number of events in the layout you're duplicating.

This feature is badly needed. There should at least an option to include or not include all events in the duplication.

MrMiller, I believe that option is already there. Right click your layout and select "Clone Layout". Should do the trick.

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So will there be an option for decreasing the grid size? Cause it looks very blocky when the gas is created.

EDIT: oh yeah, I forgot to say...

THAT IS THE COOLEST GODAMN PLUGIN EVER THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Okay, so after a long hiatus away from Construct I return and find myself completely stumped by some very simple problems. The first being: why the hell doesn't this toggle a global variable? It works if you disable one sub-condition, but not both. But the second one shouldn't be triggered... So now I'm very confused.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1378330/wat.cap

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I think for some reason both events are triggering at once, but I don't know why.

Cool beans. Thanks guys, the outline method should work great

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1378330/Untitled-1.gif">

Hey. So I'm trying to get two shapes to interact as shown above, but dynamically. I basically want to show an area of effect around a unit, but when you build two units close enough that the AOE overlaps, they combine, they don't just overlay each other.

Anybody know how you could go about this?