newt

Itch.io...this site looks great. Lots of unique indie content, some real gems here. Thanks for linking it.

Pretty sure you can't upload to the arcade anymore, as of r190.

Edit: Yeah, search for the word 'arcade' here (comment is by Kyatric):

https://www.scirra.com/construct2/releases/r190

spacedoubt

Thanks for the link, I'll keep it in mind for a backup. Right now I'm just psyched at how good altervista is working. Plus, since it's not a hack like w/ Gdrive or dropbox, I don't have to worry about it breaking.

herrislow

Will definitely deploy to kongregate when I have a finished game.

Well, I think Ashley's blog was pretty exhaustive, and included example cases where render cells would be helpful.

Basically: good for large layouts where you have lots of static objects that don't move or change their z order.

Put all those static objects on one layer and enable render cells for said layer.

Make sure not to put any other objects on that layer that you would be repositioning (moving or rotating; opacity changes are fine) regularly.

Enjoy better framerates (assuming you have > 1000 static objects).

Rayek

Well, to hell with dropbox. I just tried altervista, and it's great.

Exported a project, zipped up my folder, uploaded it (it auto-extracts zips), and brought up my game. Works perfect.

You get 1gb of space, and traffic caps at 15gbs per month. I don't think I'll be coming near either of those limits.

Color me happy.

Sargas

This works for you on a free dropbox account? Doesn't work for me.

I think you could do this with the ajax plugin (Ajax.PostToUrl), but I'm not 100% sure, haven't tested it myself.

I think you want anglelerp. For example:

anglelerp(Self.Angle,TargetAngle,8*dt)[/code:25qrzfms]

^This will lerp from the turrets current angle to the target angle. The rotation is determined by the closest angle. So:

[code:25qrzfms]anglelerp(Self.Angle(is 0),170,8*dt)[/code:25qrzfms]

...will rotate clockwise, because that is the shortest distance. Whereas:
[code:25qrzfms]
anglelerp(Self.Angle(is 0),190,8*dt)[/code:25qrzfms]

...will rotate counterclockwise, for the same reason.

https://www.scirra.com/manual/82/includes

Yeah, migrating instance variables up to family variables is a bit of a pain. What kind of solution do you think would be best?

hgr

I agree, it can be a pain. I just try to work around it.

The best thing is to keep a small number of event sheets. I used to use event sheets for partitioning a project into components; now I tend to pack more into an event sheet and use groups to sort things.

For example: instead of a sheet for every level, put the logic for each level in a group, and all those groups in one event sheet. Start with all level logic inactive, and activate/deactivate the groups as needed.

For logic that needs to be included across different sheets, I try to encapsulate as functions unless the operation is going to be called so often as to become a performance issue. All the functions go on one sheet, which is included where needed.

Ashley

Yes they do...more so than I thought, now that I look at it. I thought global layers automatically appeared on every layout; didn't realize they were 'opt-in'. Now that I look at them, they basically work like 'include' for layers.

Nonetheless, copy/paste would be handy for cases where you wanted to copy 'template' layers and iterate on them in the editor, without having to resort to events to reposition objects and tweak attributes.

On globals: I still wish the editor handled layer conflicts better. You have to be careful you don't duplicate the name of another layer on another layout, because the editor doesn't rename anything or warn you, it just overrides the non-global layer. For a game with many layouts, this means breaking out notepad++ and trawling for layer names.

Oh, and when I was playing w/ global's, I think I spotted a glitch: If you have a non-global layer on one layout, override it w/ a global layer on another layout, then DELETE the global layer, the local layer still says 'Global, overridden', and prevents you from placing objects on it. If you save the session and reload it, this corrects itself. Can you see this, or should I file a bug report proper?