Hi everyone, I'm here because I'd have a quick little question. I have a little prototype right now, 4 unfinished stages. They mainly rely on a physic engine. The project is already around 25 mb of global memory usage (around 28 while playing any level). Is this alarming or relatively normal for something with only 4 levels and aiming to have around 25 ?

Also, most of my sprites are all between, say, 100x200 and 200x500 px. There're a lot of sprites, each big chunks of the scenery also has its own normal map above it, so I can set a dynamic lightning.

It's still time to make things a little tinier, but should I ? I don't want to end up with 18 environments way too hungry for memory. Thank you all

These days sounds will not play in browsers until you click on something first, that could be your problem.

Might be the key, indeed. I was not aware of this fact. Also, thanks for your advice regarding my design, I'm going to test this immediately !

Greetings constructors,

The title said it. I wanted to be le creative guy and did not make any transition between the menu of my prototype and the first level. When you click play, the titlescreen music is stopped, then followed by one or two matching melodies until you reach the ground (the actual start of the level).

Everything is working fine in the preview.

But here's the twist : once the project has been uploaed online, the audio files don't always start. It's pretty random. Sometimes, it's running as intended. Sometimes, the titlescreen music doesn't start, but the right song supposed to start just after is working. Sometimes, nothing work at all, then BOUM everything start at the same time. And I'm clueless.

I tried to test my stuff with all my musics within the Sounds directory instead of the Musics one (just to see if it's a loading problem), but nope, same results. I don't know what could be wrong with my events. I mean, it's working on preview, and they are fairly simple, like :

Why the damn croissant fixIntro doesn't always start ? I crave for any hints. I have missed something, but I have no idea what. Same results no matter the browser. Same results if tested on local (using WAMP). Same results if tested with another track. Always random. Any form of help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your clear and quick answer, dop2000 . It works like a charm ! Have a nice day

Hello, thanks for answering my question. Your time scale solution works like a charm ! I'm surprised it has never ever been brought up earlier in the various threads I've read during my researches. Everyone was talking about physic or bullets behavior, to replace the actual particles. I'm glad to see that there is actually an easier way to achieve this result !

Greetings constructors,

I'm currently dealing with a little something you may have heard of : particles ! In my current project, they are working fine, and spawn every time I need them to do so (mainly as dust when the protagonist is walking or jumping on specific surfaces). But I need to get more control around that.

In some peculiar cases, "particles" will have to "stop" and "sleep" in one exact position until another event triggers their awakening. And this is impossible with the current C2 particles system.

The perfect way would be for my "particles" to use the physic engine (Chipmunk in my case). I need to tweak stuff in the events to "simulate" particles with some physics. And as I found out this week, It's easier said than done. I did some research regarding such cases, without success.

Now I'm not asking for a capx or a ready-to-go solution. Finding out is part of the fun. But all my attempts failed miserably or/and gave frankly broken results. I'm starting to get lost, so If anyone around there could give me a clue or the general direction to achieve this, I'd be grateful !

Regards,

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Tonight, I've learned something.

That I should not only make several saves of my main project, but also make various saves of the plugins I use or have used. But for now, I may be unable to keep working on something I was bulding for months, so I'll think about this fancy lesson latter.

Today, I've decided to reset my PC. Great idea, now everything is waaay smoother and my OS is waaay more clean. All the important files previously saved have been brought back, including my main Construct 2 project. But hey, I can't open it because several addons are missing. I've managed to download them all, except one : The Clock plugin, by Yarfapet.

This little prick is simply nowhere to be found. I didn't even know I've been using this, it must be from one of the earliest iterations of the project, and I've never removed the addon, even if I was not needing it anymore. And right now, I truly hate myself for this. This is the original thread, if anyone is interested :

https://www.construct.net/fr/forum/extending-construct-2/addons-29/c2-plugin-clock-38660

Google failed to help me, this addon seems to have vanished from the entire internet. I do hope that some of you have still this thing saved on your disk, otherwise I'll need a serious quantity of alcohol to deal with such a stupid situation. Any form of help would be appreciated. Thank you