I want to set an array with text then iterate through it - all the tutorials and posts I'm seeing about arrays are over my head or off topic. I know I can do this manually with a long slew of events but I'd rather do this with an array and an expression. I just don't know where or how.

for example - at 5 seconds:

"good start"

at ten

"keep going"

at fifteen

"almost there"

etc - thanks!

Ok, it turns out changing the 'initial frame' is all I needed to do for my purposes - but Newt - it seems like you're describing a very roundabout way to accomplish something construct does anyway? Or maybe I'm not understanding. In any case, thanks for the help!

I've been looking through posts referencing the UID attribute and they're all a little over my head. I have a sprite and I want to have multiple instances where each sprite is playing it's animation from a different frame. At the moment I'm just not sure how to address each sprite separately in the event editor - I imagine that it's easy and related to UID - can anyone point me in the right direction?

thanks!

Yep, looked through all that stuff. I understand the relationship between window size and layout size but the game I'm making isn't intended to be scrolled around. I was really just trying to figure out how to make it smaller in my browser without actually changing the size of my browser - scaling and scrolling the layout seems to work ok for my purposes.

Thanks!

ahhh - I discovered 'set layer scale' and 'scroll to' as system events on start of layout... not sure if that's the best way to do it but it works...

That's cool - what I want to do is work on my game at one resolution and export my game at another resolution... so it shows up in my browser smaller (or bigger) - possible?

I've searched the forums and the manual - can't find the answer to this question. I have a project that's 1000x800 (let's say), I want to work in that resolution but I want to export a project that's half that size - 500x400 - like I would in photoshop - is that possible?

Sorry if this info is out there, but I haven't found it...

thanks!

Ok - it took me three hours to figure out I need "quotes" around the animation name - meh... thanks for the help

It basically sort of works - the problem is I can't set the animation to what I want. I'm trying to click on one sprite to play an animation on another sprite - and when I try to set the name of the animation it says 'this is not a variable name in the scope' - so - I can't trigger animation on one sprite from another? Is there a workaround?

Thanks for the help!

I'm trying to turn this site into html5:

poopfriends.com

The documentation seems lacking in terms of controlling animation, or maybe I just haven't found the right page. At the moment I'm trying to do something very simple. I have four on screen buttons, each of them should play a different animation on a single sprite.

Right now I have the animations broken up into four different sequences in the animation editor. When I go to the event editor (and this is where I'm finding no documentation) I first SET the animation to LoopName.AnimationName - then set animation frame to 0 then start animation from beginning. This works fine for the first button and the first loop. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the second loop to work - I tried making a second event on the second button that's identical except that it's LoopName2.AnimationName...

Any ideas? Any documentation?

Also - the first loop seems to play when I open the file - not sure how to get my sprite to just sit there and not animate... thanks for any help

right - wrong version - I'll repost this in a different forum

Sorry, super nube here - what do I do with .cap files? I'm using construct 2 - wrong version?