Well you already know I like it from chat. But giving a thumbs up here too.

Anything new on this?

Also, bump for new users who've recently joined and might be interested in what CROS is doing.

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> Pretty much what I found is that you have to install Python 2.6.4 to get external libraries to work (at least without more work). I tried copying over the python26.dll file but still got lots of errors for missing dependencies.

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does this mean it works on machines without python installed if you dont have external libraries...iwasnt sure if that worked or not...and if so, oes it still get the weird error?

I thought we tried this the other day in chat and had no luck getting it to work?

Yeah, as lucid said, have a look at what the existing bugs cover on the tracker, and add bugs for any which aren't covered, and I'll take a look at some point. I remember the effects + Z elevation one though, and last time I investigated, I couldn't figure out what was wrong...

Had a look at it looks like the main things are up there, the others I imagine would fix themselves in the process.

I could get layer effects to work with z-depth being used though, so I dunno what's causing it either.

http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~oliveira/pubs_ ... 3D2006.pdf

I mentioned this in chat a while back. I think it would be fantastic to have this available in construct.

http://fabio.policarpo.nom.br/Demos.html Example .fx to study, plus 3DS MAX plugin.

The piece of interest (in our case) is #4 Relief map imposters. Which unlike regular billboards, gives an almost accurate representation of a 3D model across a single flat polygon (or mesh if you wanna call it that) regardless of what angle you look at it (except from the side obviously).

It's 3D, without being 3D.

<img src="http://www.kusu.co.uk/files/simples.bmp">

> Hopefully David or Ashley will reply and give a timeframe on the possibility of them being fixed, cause I can't swap the artwork around once its done.

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It's been my experience that the devs don't offer up timeframes. Either it's done or it's not. As long as it's on the tracker the best you can do is hope it's made it into the next build.

Cross your fingers, but don't hold your breath . There's a lot of stuff to work through, still.

Here's hoping the wink has hidden meaning and the next version is all hunky dory!

there's alot of zdepth and 3d mesh problems, I've posted the transparency ones and the ones where it disappears near the edges of the screen, and I think I may have posted the effects one as well to the tracker

you should report the other stuff you mentioned to the bug tracker

the z stuff is the stuff I'm most excited about, my whole game is gonna be full of z_ness

Same, I know exactly how I want things to look and having the z-depth is an important factor in doing it properly.

The frustrating part is it's SO CLOSE to being just right and working great. The ones you posted are the ones I really need to be working, I can fake/live without the others for the time being, even though effects not working when used with z-depth is annoying.

Hopefully David or Ashley will reply and give a timeframe on the possibility of them being fixed, cause I can't swap the artwork around once its done.

Would be awesome if it's all fixed and working in the next version, but I've heard nothing about this side of things.

HELLO. I don't really bother with the forum much these days since the IRC channel is generally busy, except right now, lol. So figured I'd make a post here about these problems.

So yeah, anyone know fixes to the following?

Effects don't work/don't work correctly when used on anything that has a z-depth other than it's default 0.

Meshes don't sort correctly at times, regardless of their z-depth.

Meshes with transparent textures not correctly showing meshes behind them (only 100% transparency seems to work properly unless using a layer per mesh).

Graphic errors at edges of distorted mesh (colored pixels where no pixels should be visible (transparent pixels).

Canvas doesn't work if using z-depth.

Sprites will sometimes refuse to render when using z-depth on them and appearing on a 3D layer or above it, and sometimes will work. Other times they'll work on regular layers above 3D layers, sometimes they don't. But when they do, obviously there's no sorting in those cases and clipping occurs.

Yes I have had layers set as 3D and not 3D, I've sacrificed goats, deflowered virgins and wiped out entire Amazonian tribes, but none of them have helped.

I know I can fake most of what I'm doing (at the expense of huge amounts of VRAM). But it would be nice to be able to do it properly, or at least know how to get these tools to work correctly.

Can anyone help?

Well... I wanted to look at the cap, but every time I try to I get an "Abnormal program termination" in construct.exe. I can open up construct just fine; the cap is just wonky.

Are you using the latest version? The one on the forum not the main site.

Lost my Keys,

Yes you are right. I want encrypted pictures not compressed, My bad.

That feature would make Construct much more powerful since your games could be vastly larger with less bulk.

That said, is there a tutorial to load in a renamed .zip or .rar?

Low level security is better than none *smile*

Don't think you need to do anything special with the renamed zip. I haven't tried it, but I've loaded other files that I renamed to random extensions and they ran perfectly fine, and zips are often used in other games but simply renamed to something else, so should be ok (in theory).

I asked David (one of the devs) about it, and he didn't think it would be added to C1. But that wouldn't rule it out for C2 I guess, so if enough people want it, it'll probably be done for that.

For the time being though, you should be just fine keeping the artwork inside the executable. The audio on the other hand, that is kept externally. But yeah renaming the extensions there should keep some people out.

There's a plugin called 's' available which can do encryption but I can't say if it'll be of any use in this case, you'd have to look into that as I've never used 's' myself.

This just happened to my friend, heres a print :

<img src="http://1154988038932521664-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/usonic/Image.jpg">

the .exe works fine here, but not on my friends PC..

her system is Vista home basic, 32bits.

Also using the last build of Construct, 0.99.62

Latest build is 0.99.72 (it's an unstable build, but it's no less stable than 62) Can be found on the forum in announcements, don't know if it'll fix the problem though.

So sorry, let me explain better. I understand that media loaded in to Construct is now compressed in to the program and untouchable. But I once made a game where there was lots of sounds and large pictures, so I kept them external and loaded them as needed. Here is what I did:

I wrote an adventure game where there were dozens of rooms with 600 x 800 picture backgrounds and mp3 voice and sound files. Keeping them all embedded in the program would bloat the game. So I loaded each as needed. But there is no reason for a player to finish the game if they can just browse the picture and sound folder.

Along those lines I also played a fun game that awarded pictures as a prize for completing a level. Again there were like 50 pictures to collect. You would not want the players to just look in the directory to see them. But force them to play to get the next prize.

In conclusion my request was for a way to compress media (maybe into one file) and then have construct be able to read it.

Your artwork should be power of 2 sizes (split and tile if you have to). Artwork is rounded up to the next largest size, and a collection of smaller ones is going to be easier on the system than fewer large ones.

You can load textures etc. per layout rather than on application start. With dozens of 600x800 images it's not surprising it bogged things down. So per layout, it would just load what it needs for that one, then dump it once it moves onto the next.

You're wanting an encrypted archive/pack, rather than a compressed one. It's been asked for before a few times (I'd like it too!), in the hopes of keeping the executable small (for easy patching/updates at a later date), but I don't know what the official stance is on that.

Or you could use the zip object and just rename it to .dat or something and that might keep the majority from looking too closely. It wont keep everyone out, but then if someone is going to go sniffing around, they'll get into anything and crack any protection.