> For example can the canvas grab everything below it, including other effects.

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Yep, and this is what Davioware meant, for fullscreen effect processing. You want to set it to grab the layout before drawing (it means "grab layout before drawing the canvas"). That means it works like this:

Layout (everything beneath the canvas) is fully drawn

Canvas takes a snapshot of that

Canvas processes an effect (assuming you added one) and draws on top of everything

End result: you see everything with an effect applied.

'Grab after drawing' means it takes a snapshot after the canvas has already drawn itself. That's useful for frame feedback effects, such as an effect mixing the previous frame and the current frame (usually the canvas has to be semitransparent for that to work).

Yep got back a few minutes ago and gave it a try soon as I sat down, worked perfectly! I'm using that bloom effect you posted way back actually, the blur horizontal x2 / vertical x2 + glow. Looks really nice. Plus having it on it's own layer makes adding options to turn the effect on and off, really simple.

I also noticed the canvas bug where using different size canvases with a pre-drawn texture ends up with it removing entire chunks of it, doesn't happen at all when grabbing the layout. So making a canvas of only 8x8 and stretching it to fill the entire display works great! Doesn't effect the quality at all, but runs much faster and uses barely any extra VRAM!

> I tried to play Subject 66 a few days ago and that writes a file to the hard drive and windows said no way. I had to run in administrator mode to get it to play I'm sure it would do the same thing for registry keys.

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Vista and 7 allow the application access to certain parts of the registry and disk. For example, an application can write to temporary files without security privileges, but not your Windows directory.

If the application steps outside this boundary, Windows hits the user with a UAC prompt. You just have to know what you're allowed to do, and you can avoid it. It's fully documented on MSDN, Microsoft want everyone to know what these limitations are so applications are more secure.

> Then when they buy a full version off you, compile a customized copy of it just for them

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Try that when you're selling 10,000 copies.

Hey if I'm selling 10,000 copies of a game I made. I could afford to hire people to do it for me, lol.

Just release a cut down version (delete a few layouts from it) as your trial version. No saving anything to the registry or modifying ini files and uncrackable on account of it not containing the rest of the files to begin with.

Then when they buy a full version off you, compile a customized copy of it just for them, along with their payment/address details displayed within the game intro and no anti-piracy protection (the pirates aren't going to crack something that doesn't need cracking.. no sport), and if Joe Bloggs tries passing around their paid for version to the rest of the public, all their private details are made public.

It's not perfect, but it's the least amount of messing around. Course the data protection act might have issues with you including their credit card details in it.. Just say you left a briefcase with their details on a train somewhere, always works for politicians.

Well, make a .cap in an early version, load it in 0.99.7, and if anything's different, put the .cap on the tracker with the usual details (repro/expected/result).

Nah it's cool. If you say you haven't touched it then I must have imagined I did it that way and was more than likely using just one layer. If it had been possible and suddenly wasn't, I'm sure lots of others would have mentioned it by now too. So yeah, I'll have got it wrong, sorry :

> Am I right in thinking that previously adding layer effects worked on empty layers, essentially effecting everything below?

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No, it was never like this. For a full screen post process effect pass, go with a canvas, with grab layout before drawing.

Had a go trying that, couldn't get it to grab the screen (I think I was using -after- drawing though, so will give it another try when I get back), is there anything special that needs to be done? Are there any limits to it? For example can the canvas grab everything below it, including other effects.

BarneyGumble44,

are you making crush-the-castle remake?

http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/crush-the-castle-players-pack

Damn you, there went my morning, lol. I just quit playing that after clicking your link! That's a fun game, never seen it before!

I haven't touched any of the layer effect code for months myself, so I don't see why this would have suddenly changed. Have you got a before/after .cap that demonstrates an actual difference? Are you sure you're not setting it up wrong?

Well I have been up all night again, so the latter is quite possible Maybe I was working on a single layer and thought I'd done it on an empty layer above or something, it was a while back now while I was still getting used to the UI. Damn :\</p>

newt,

I can't open your cap

Construct 0.99.62 crashes with message "An unknown error occured while accessing an unnamed file".

Is it known issue? It's strange. How did Lost my Keys open it? : ()

I'm guessing both me and newt have the latest version. Update (if you want to) and it should work fine.

Platform:

a raised flooring or other horizontal surface, such as, in a hall or meeting place, a stage for use by public speakers, performers, etc.

a horizontal surface or structure with a horizontal surface raised above the level of the surrounding area.

a flat, elevated piece of ground.

Hmmm, perhaps something like a custom movement behavior for this would work.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/666516/cmslide.cap

Thats $%&? AWESOME!!!! I didn't even know that was possible. That's what I'm looking for with the platform controls (because there are still platforms, but also lots of more natural shapes, hills and so on, which this method would be perfect for!).

Am I right in thinking that previously adding layer effects worked on empty layers, essentially effecting everything below? Was this changed for the newer releases? I vaguely recall playing around with blur and glow shaders on a layer above all the others to get a nice working bloom effect, but now it doesn't seem to work (possibly changed in the most recent or the previous release).

I could have sworn it worked before though. If it has been changed, is this intentional or accidental, and can we expect to see it back at some point?

> I talked with Ashley about it, so maybe she can do something

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Hehe, whoops

Maybe he talked to Ashley on the phone and he's got a really squeaky voice? lol

It says under lesson four how to do slopes.

There's a friggin' slope right there in the picture in the first post for crying out loud.

Edit:

Use v0.98.9

Yeah, you did your slopes just like I've been doing them. So I have been doing them right all along, they just wont work until whatever bug broke them is fixed (I can't downgrade, that breaks other things).

Hmm, I wonder, would taking the platform behavior files out of 98.9 and overwriting the latest version with them work..

And yes there is a pic of the slope in the forum, but not from the (apparently broken) links on the wiki which is where I went first (and selecting the environment one as that seemed the obvious choice) before coming back to the forum to grab it from the thread instead.

The important thing is I was getting it right, it does work, it's just bugged right now. But by the time I need it to work, it'll be fixed. Which is a good thing!

Hmm ok so it's not me doing it wrong then, sloped platforms aren't working in your tutorial either, you can get part of the way up one then you stop in your tracks (you can go down them easily enough) just can't go up.