Well i wont be a great discoverer if ill say that CC wiki is soo damn unfinished and abbandom. The worst part is - the pages about the very basic stuff are like that too. I can understand some in-depth techniques being left undone, but for example:

I am in dire need of Custome Movement. But i have never used it before.

And it has hell load of actions and conditions and not all of them are obvious ("Stop Steping"??? "Bounce"?? Push out??? the heck??).

So here i am.

Please. If someone kind enough would edit this page

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/construct/index.php?title=Custom_Movement

and fill it with proper description or just finish it.

I am not asking to clean and finish the whole Wiki. But at least this.

If wiki would be a bit more patched there wouldnt be half of the topics in "help&support" section.

This would be for good of Construct and all of us.

I would help, sure. But i have too little knowledge, not talking about my horrible english.

oh my. So there was actualy someone beside me playing Commander Keen?

*high five*

<img src="http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo136/4Sweet2Leaf0/Minitroid_MapEditor.png" border="0" />

you always steal the day Toki :)

so please don't share it around.

its too good to be shared >:3 i am keeping this.

After next 10 years, when you Sol will be already very rich, famous, and publish hellload of games that will gain you a fortune - i shall return!

with this little alpha-sketch which i will then sell to rich collectors <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

1. That is a whole layer, a sprite object set to a light gray colour with multiply effect is covering the whole layer. On top of that is a greyscale sprite set to additive, and it is set to fade behavior. The additive object is created randomly and set to destroy on fade.

2. The rays/flare is made of one object repeated about 20 times. The cloud is the same... I used greyscale images and used the tint effect as well as additive effect.

~Sol

Can i ask you to make a .cap tutorial for this? <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

sorry for being such a pest.

But the effect you achieved... just woah.

actualy no. The guys knew what FoW technique he'll use, he just wanted the blob around player to have a custome shape.

I exactly know what i am after but the problem is my layout size. the smallest is 10k^2

I know the basic techniques how could i have FoW. What i want to know is a variation of known technique or a new one that will not blow up the player CPU or VRAM :P

I belive everyone knows what FoW is.

The problem is - how to implement it?

At first i thought the obvious - create "fog cloud" object every X and Y.

And this would be okey i gues, for a small layout. lets presume that one cloud would be 128^2 pixels big. Thats about 100 of them for 1280^2 big layout. And as its the same sprite object it wouldnt only impact the CPU, not the VRAM. But what if the layout is 10k^2? now we have about 10k of them. And 10k objects is... troublesome, at best.

So to cut the CPU usage/number of Objects i can adjuct the cloud size twice but then it will impact the VRAM the bigger the cloud would be. So either way CPU or VRAM are burdened.

I though about Canvas but Canvas of this size is like a russian roulette with full barrel.

I could try the 1st + occlusion culling/array i am not sure if i can pull this one out.

Any ideas or tricks comes to your head how to execute this? i cant think of any reasonble solution but i lack the skills and knowledge. And this FoW is something i really would like to have. Or at least know how to use, if not for my current project then for future use.

this is one of those moments i want to smack myself in the face.

Ahhh... why i am always blind for the obvious solutions?

Thank you GF.

another thing. this:

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

gives me error saying:

'+' does not work on 'integer' and 'string'

the heck?

actualy this is a great material for a sig :D

in CC you can set that in application prosperities.

To load stuff "per layout" or everything. so its up to you.

Hell of a load at the beggining and zero loading after.

or

short loading every now and then.

okey. so to not make another thread:

do you know if theres a way to write an expresion so the value would be picked randomly but from a pattern?

example.

i want the angle of sprite X, to be randomly set from 0, 90, 180 or 270.

Is there a way to do this without the use of switches?

Thank you!

1. Background nebulas blicking

How you did that?

2. Stars are made out of 2 flare spirites and about 4 cloud sprites. Flare are rotating one clockwise and the other counter clockwise.

Em i correct? didi you used any Effect on them?