Actualy, V-sync has some disadvantages too. On different PCs, game may acts differently, most critical exemple is variation of jump height in platformer depending on user's monitor freshrate

But that's a problem with the platform behavior, not with the technical aspects of v-synced or unlimited framerate mode.

I didn't work much with the platform behavior, but if the jump height depends on the monitor's refresh rate in v-synced mode, then how much more must this be influenced in unlimited mode! One player manages 1000 fps and jumps 100 pixels high, the other manages 100 fps and jumps only 10 pixels high?

In unlimited framerate mode the cpu sends all orders to the gpu as soon as all calculations are done. This can produce side effects like tearing and your game is dependent on a fast pc with a fast graphics card.

While you may experience more responsiveness of your game, another player with lower specs will not. So every player will experience something else. You could of course define some minimum system requirements (preferably the ones of your developer system) to make sure, no one is disadvanteged.

In v-synced mode the cpu does its calculations and then waits for the vertical refresh of the monitor before sending the orders. This way no side effects will occur and all players will experience the same game speed/responsiveness down to the weakest system that is able to produce the v-synced fps (e.g. 60 fps on most LED/LCD monitors). Only when the system isn't able to keep up with v-synced, it will suffer disadvantages of slower responsiveness. That's what unlimited framerate is good for. To see how much headroom there is. It gives you a measurement of how much slower a pc might be to still be able to play the same way as you experienced it in v-synced mode.

Overall: If you don't care about the disadvantages and the side effects for slower PCs, you might as well use the unlimited framerate mode.

Welcome to the community :)

...And you won't be disappointed with Construct, either Classic or 2 [<:o)]

Pressing one's thumbs with the rest of the fingers is the usual way to hope for luck in germany too :)

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The roots are in the ancient german tribes. Thumbs were the most important fingers, so hiding them behind the others protects them. And, the thumb as the most important finger also able to do bad things, hidden in the hand proved that it would do no harm.

I would love to +1 Scirra, but it seems you may only vote with a google account - which I will not create, sorry...

cos and sin expect a value in degree and return a value based on the unit circle (so they return [-1,+1])

To position something on a circle around a center:

x = center_X + cos(angle) * radius

y = center_Y + sin(angle) * radius

To move something circular around a center over time:

angle = angle + amountofchangepersecond * TimeDelta

x = center_X + cos(angle) * radius

y = center_Y + sin(angle) * radius

You may also change angle and/or radius independently for x and y which will have various effects, like shaping an ellipse instead of a circle and much more.

Add the file object to your app. This object has an "execute file" action that just needs the path to the file.

After logging in I was directed to a nearly blank page with just one sentence:

Page has moved here.

Where "here" is a link that links back to that page...

EDIT: It seems there are problems accessing the site, got a "resource not found" right now and long access times.

EDIT 2: Ah, ok, thank you and sorry for my first EDIT ;)

Hit the Post Reply button instead of using the quick reply. That's where it is. There are more options in the full editor, and prompt mode basically is a step-by-step wizard for formatting BBcode. It's largely unecessary imo.

Ah, I see. Thank you. And yes, it could be an option instead of being the default.

Tom: I for one have patience. I can imagine it is a lot of work to change the site's software. I just want to make you know of everything that I stumble upon. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

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> > sometimes i have to add empty "" for that to work and sometimes works without it :/

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> Although Construct tries its best to convert between numbers and text, you are free to explicitly convert to text with the expression 'str':

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> AppPath & str(random(10) + 1) & ".png"

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> This should work without exception.

Ampersand concatenates to string, so it should automatically be converted.

I've seen others use the plus sign, and it worked, but I can't think of a situation where that method would be better.

• That's what I said, Construct tries its best to convert.
• Never use the plus sign, the only sign you can rely on is ampersand.
• there are situations where Construct will be confused with the information given. Just create a text box and do:

      + System: Start of layout

      -> Text: Set text to AppPath & random(10) + 1 & ".png"

Do you now see, where that str method would be better? <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

EDIT: Sorry, after posting I realized that Jayjay already gave that example.

If I only knew what basic and prompt mode means.

But I agree to the rest.

I think it's probably to do with the Empire being so large at one point, the saying "The Sun never sets in the British Empire" meaning there at one point was always a country on the globe under sunlight under British control.

I think it was basically spread that way, and supported to some degree by trade.

Don't forget, there was hard competition <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle"> German was also spreaded around the world until the late 19th century. In fact, when founding the U.S., there was a serious consideration to have 2 official languages, english and german <img src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0" align="middle">

How much easier it would be for me, if this would have happened...

btt, I'm german, know a bit english and less french, and whenever I look for a word (which happens quite often) I use Beolingus.