Ashley Thanks for taking the time to respond, even though it's disappointing to hear. I'm a big fan of C2 - I've been a supporter from early on but it was still too fresh in development when I started my game a year and a half ago. Switching over now would be difficult to justify.

Do you think there's any way, using Python, to get a layout to choose which sheet it's referencing at runtime? If it's an architectural flaw, there's probably not, though.

Looks like my best solution will be a level editor and just have one layout that runs everything - it's a lot of work, but it'd still be a lot easier than porting everything to C2.

I don't know what's happening as the EXE loads, but, not only is the export time significantly reduced, but the EXE load time goes from about 53 seconds to 3 seconds.

Also the EXE file size went from 88MB to 38MB.

Again, I did not remove any anything. I simply pointed all the layouts to a blank event sheet.

I really wish I could find a solution for this - it seems too simple.

Jayjay thanks for the link to your level editor - i'll check it out.

Arima I didn't know that was what was happening until today. It seems like a fairly inefficient way to do things. I guess that's why they started over with C2.

I'm resurrecting this old thread. I've been struggling with long compile/preview times for awhile now and I finally made a breakthrough that is both good and bad. I'm hoping I can solicit some advice on how to mitigate some of the bad.

First, let me explain:

I discovered that my long preview time (which affects the final exe's startup time) is a combination (and compounding) of two things: A lot of events and a lot of layouts. Now that seems self-explanatory, but it's a little more complex that that. It seems that what's happening is that even though each layout is referencing the same event sheet includes, it's compiling those events for EVERY layout - even though they are referencing the same events.

Here's how I know: I didn't touch the events at all. I simply made another blank event sheet. Then I made every layout (except for 1) use the blank event sheet. My preview time went from almost 3 Mins to 20 Secs!! (and this is with about 50 layouts and 5000+ events) This discovery is HUGE for me. It's going to make developing the game so much easier as I can simply turn on the real event sheet for whatever layout(s) I'm currently working on.

However, this doesn't do anything to fix the final build's startup load time (which will have to have the real event sheets turned on for each layout). So, outside of creating a level editor (which is something I may end up doing) I'm not sure what I can do to fix this.

If there was a way to add event sheet includes at runtime it would probably be the easiest solution but I don't know of any way to do that. Would something like that be possible in Python?

Does anyone have any suggestions?

For the past year my 3-person team and I have been working on Treasure Adventure World, a commercial platform adventure game using Scirra's Construct Classic. Many of you here have helped me at one point or another as I've been learning the ins-and-outs of CC. So far you (and CC) have not let me down.

I'm proud to show you our new trailer

We're also running a pre-order campaign and there's more info about that at the end of the video.

Again I must request help from the Construct-gods. I can never wrap my head around some effects.

What I'm looking to do is have two sprites layered on top of each other. The top-most sprite is semi transparent so you can see the sprite below it. The bottom sprite is bigger than the top sprite but I only want the part of the sprite that is underneath the top sprite to be shown.

I made an example cap to demonstrate: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yn8dr5ubs4lp3nf/image_effect_example.cap

I want the "eye pupil" sprite to only be visible underneath the "eye lens" piece. All the yellow part thats outside the "lens" should be invisible.

Is this possible? I feel like it should be but I dont know what combination of effects will do it. Thanks!

Wow this is well on it's way to being a great game. First, the menus impressed me right from the beginning. They have a nice "game-feel" to them. My only issue was that I thought that the charge shot didn't seem to get any more powerful as the weapon was upgraded. By the time my weapon was at level 4 is was more powerful than the charge shot which made it pointless to charge it.

Also, usually with games like this I like to just hold down the attack button instead of spamming it. Maybe you can make the weapon charge when the player isn't holding down the attack key? So if you hold down ATTACK it'll keep shooting regular shots and if you let go of it it'll start charging. I think this would be a better control scheme, personally.

Keep it up!

I'm impressed that this was made after just 1 day with CC. You clearly already have a decent understanding of game design and the art style is great. I'll be interested in seeing your future work.

Thanks Lucid!

Is there any chance someone could post a new link for this plug-in? Thanks!

R0J0! Once again you are a lifesaver. :) This is exactly what I needed.

Now, this isn't a necessity but it would be awesome if this could all be done on 1 layer (just for simplicity in a project that is already complex). Would this be possible? I tried a few things but it seems like at least 2 layers are required.

Like I said, though, the method you described will work just fine for my purposes. Thanks!

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this puzzle. I'm not even sure how to describe what I'm trying to accomplish but I'm hoping some kind of layer effect will work.

Here's the .Cap: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28484936/layer_effect_example.cap

In this simple example I have 3 layers. The background layer (with the circles), the middle layer (checkered) and the top layer (the gray semi-transparent mask with a hole in the middle).

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28484936/2013-02-11_185151.png" border="0">

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28484936/2013-02-11_183226.png" border="0">

What I want is for the middle layer (checkers) to only show through where the hole is. Any part of the checkered layer that is covered by the grey area should be invisible, while the background (circles) should show through normally. The end result should look like this:

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28484936/2013-02-11_183309.png" border="0">

For the sake of this example I put all three of these object on separate layers but they don't necessarily have to be laid out like this. Any ideas? Thanks!

Is there a way to set one of the Radio buttons options on by default? Or in other words... is there a way to manually set which Radio option is selected with events? The only action for it is "Add Option".

Also, I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the value from the currently selected list box item. There doesn't seems to be any ListBox specific expressions.

I've been struggling with this and cannot find the answer in any of the documentation. I feel like i'm missing something about how to use this plugin. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.