On a side note, this is the one thing I dislike most about Construct. I personally find the event system hard to use when you have many of the same object, such as in this instance. You used a family to solve this problem, but why did it work? If I needed to do this myself, I would have ended up doing it the way I told you above, and resulted in a crash. Next, I'd try all kinds of craziness with private variables and whatnot, but some things in Construct just don't seem intuitive to say the least.

This coming from an old Gamemaker user, so needless to say, I'm used to each object working independently without having to work out which ones will be affected by the global event sheet. Construct is so much better in so many ways, but manipulating individual instances is hard for me to wrap my head around with the event system controlling everything.

I switched form GM in mid January so slightly a head of the curve from you.

I found it hard to switch but see the power. And still find GM scripting easier, but can not do so many things in GM that I can do in Construct, so hang in there.

Try this to understand Families:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/c ... e=Families

But also look at Containers:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/c ... Containers

They will make you sprite life easier

The other important thing that will make you project much easier to handle is using event sheets and including them.

Oh and start small and grow. You will learn faster that way.

That's what I'd thought, but when I do it that way, it doesn't seem to matter. Its just ignores the wait commands and performs the actions immediately, or so it seems. I even tried a ridiculous delay of 5000ms (5 seconds I presume) and the action still happened immediately, so I'm definitely missing something. But thanks all for the help, I'll get it eventually.

Try this:

Notihng happens until you press a key (space bar). After 2 seconds the face will happy bounce (using the wait). If you toggle off the wait he will bounce as soon as you hit any key,

http://www.box.net/shared/ry3roolsk2

I see, thanks. At first it didn't work within quotes, but I've must made a subtle typo then.

Disregard this thread, I'm stupid.

Veteran bugfinder's are never stupid. They are just so busy with important things that miss something small

Under Other, all I have is:

AVI

Date

Function

IK Solver 2 (whatever that is...)

Layout

Timeline

Webcam

I tried doing a search for Wait in the add object window and got nothing. I'm using version 0.99.62.

Is is there a new version out perhaps?

yes you need to add the object.

REMEMBER to double click on it and then click in on your layout just like a adding a sprite

Wait works fine with .99.84

ROFL

I have downloaded it but when I try to open it with construct version 0.99.84 and I run it, appears on my screen a windows xp message where it says that a problem have ocurried and application must be closed.

so could you upload a .exe file of your particle studio or could you try to fix it?

greetings

Yeah I would rather try and fix your problem, otherwise you will not learn from reading the cap files.

Fist question. Will construct run on your machine and can you make a simple program.

Next Question can you DL and use any other cap like Ghost Shooter?

Can you upload a .exe? Mysteriously, in my computer, I can't open .cap files.

What about save the .cap file, and open it in with Construct.

Very Cool R0J0hound,

How do you know this stuff? LOL

Great example R0J0hound!

I especially like how you handled the text. VERY nice RP style

I was going for a path the monster made, but leaves it when it sees the hero. If the hero is ducks out of sight then the monster goes back to it's path.

Is there a better way to do this?

Also the monster will go through some of the free standing solids. Any way to stop that?

http://www.box.net/shared/urka3ivffj

Construct .99.84

Keep at it you are doing GREAT. You will be proud of this when it is done.

Never mind be proud now!

YEP the newest ACP (Advanced Camera Plugin) does not seem to play well the the last 2 versions of Construct (only happens in XP, Vista and Win7 are fine). Once I removed ACP all worked well.