I know. There are a lot of stuff I use physics for in other tools. Often pining for them to be in C2. But I don't think they are coming. In fact I just have to fight C2 to use physics with a handful of objects on mobile. Where as other tools just use physics2d so well with more objects and less fighting.

C2 uses a whole blown version of NodeWebkit. It is possible to do custom builds that only use features you need. But C2 doesn't do custom compile for NodeWebkit. Instead C2 just uses it as an EXE pacakge and all the resources are in zip file/folder.

As I understand the priority to C2 is.

anything not part of the IDE. ie stuff that requires C++ programming. Some get's done. But it's much farther between. Plugins and logic flow(ie JS) get's worked on more.

I think I mentioned this is your first post about images. Yep. I agree. Assets should be based on what's imported and managed by the developer. and not managed by C2. That way editing is done in the folders. I really don't like C2 asset management. I know supposedly you can, but due to how C2 organizes and names and stuff. It's all a pain.

I agree. There are a few key developer components that need to be tackeled. And they aren't.

Modularity

Asset management

asset store

Whatever order you want to put it in. however we have seen tile editor, multiplayer, shadows and all sorts of other additions and fixes since a poll was held about 2 years ago. And out of of all the actual productivity features wanted. only improvements to UI and the Debugger has been done. none of the others. sigh.

In C2 until asset management is better by being more fluid. It's best to use prototype fillers. then add the finished assets at the end.

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huh... works for me fine in CocoonJS. the problem was previously CJS didn't have XML support. However Sprite moved to JSON a while ago. Providing the wrapper has JSON it's good to go.

I think it's working as intended. I heard about non duplicate frames. But I've never seen it. I had someone give me a classical animation sprite sheet(as in all files in a directory). and that's duplicated frames... alot. I've heard of non duplicate, but I don't think it's based on image checking. I think it's somethign else.

I wish C2 went to image atlasing and used refences for sprite images to use. Including cycles.

I agree on how the images are handled. I think art should be in an asset directory. Your sprites reference teh file you drop into the folder. That way it's far more intuitive for artists to just jump into the folder, edit the image and boom it's done. No need to re-import. C2 image handling is counter intuive for team design and larger games. This design leads to working on the idea of finalized assets rather than itterative. This also include audio.

Non C2 using developers should be able to just edit files in a project folders. sigh oh well. There are few work flow features and few community features that are always going to hold C2 back from being a defacto engine.

With all this C2 more than any other tool should have an Asset store. Considering that this is focused to include non programmers an Asset store is critical to this.

Ldk

I spent about 3/4 months with Maor(on the site) to go from a fine desktop game to mobile. It was a lot of back and forth. And the first element that needed to be worked on was the fact that the memory usage was pretty much killer on the systems.

I suggest lowering your graphical quality by half as just a start. There are many other performance enhancers after that. Use mono audio can cut audio in half. So unless your game needs stero audio, just mono it.

OP. You might want to do some more studying on how the MP works. It doesn't look like so much a bug, but lack of primary network development.

The container is creating both objects. However based on our design logic there are flaws.

1. The host only creates 1 Container set(ie both sprites)

2. The client creates 2 Container sets. The blue sprite is covering the first one and the green sprite is -1000,-1000. This results in the look that the green sprite isn't being spawned.

Seriously while c2 MP plugin I think is the easiest. You both might want to consider going through the tutorials of just C2 core learning tuts. Rather than jumping into the MP.

*here are some stuff

*You don't sync objects to peers

*there is no peer tracking

*don't assume that containers fall into a shape. Assume they are off screen. So always make sure to set there position.

* since the client get's 2 instances and the host gets 1 instance of your object your not handling peer connections.

I get the feeling there is a lot of guess work going on in this MP capx. I don't see a bug. Just not a solid logic flow and proper use of the MP plugin or C2 moderate functionality.

Colludium

Your right. Unfortunatally. Your using a switch state system to create an object. However part of the problem with this design is variable association and large duplicatio of code. Since you can't reference the newly created object by it's Family UID until after the first tick. So

OnFunction.Create(TypeX)

if(param0)

Create ObjectTypeA

objectType.var1 = qwe

objectType.var2 = asd

objectType.var3 = zcv

objectType.var4 = tyu

objectType.var5 = ghj

if(param1)

Create ObjectTypeB

objectType.var1 = qwe

objectType.var2 = asd

objectType.var3 = zcv

objectType.var4 = tyu

objectType.var5 = ghj

if(param2)

Create ObjectTypeC

objectTypeC.var1 = qwe

objectTypeC.var2 = asd

objectTypeC.var3 = zcv

objectTypeC.var4 = tyu

objectTypeC.var5 = ghj

if(param3)

Create ObjectTypeD

objectTypeD.var1 = qwe

objectTypeD.var2 = asd

objectTypeD.var3 = zcv

objectTypeD.var4 = tyu

objectTypeD.var5 = ghj

Now imagine 20 of those. Possibly even with more customized paramater information. This is an attrocase horrible disgusting way to design a switch state creation. Why because you can't access the Family version of the object unteril after the first tick. And you might need to access by way of first tick. Instead a good design.

OnFunction.Create("type")

Family.Type = param0

System.Create(Family)

Family.var = qwer

Family.var = asd

.....

and that's it. That would have 20 family objects, 30 family objects. 1000 famiy objects... ok 1000 is far past excesive.

An alternative is to just make sure we can access the object by it's family ASAP rather than waiting a tick

OnFunction.Create("type")

if(param0 = type) Create Type....A

if(param0 = type) Create Type....B

if(param0 = type) Create Type....C

if(param0 = type) Create Type....D

if(param0 = type) Create Type....E

if(param0 = type) Create Type....F

if(param0 = type) Create Type....G

if(param0 = type) Create Type....H

... and then after alll those ifstatements

Family.var = qwer

Family.var = asd

.....

As it is. It kinda sucks for dynamic object creation. However there is a plugin to do what is requested. Also in the mean time. Just avoid this kind of object family creation.

1) On one you are right. Ashley says one thing("don't worry about managing sprites") but he does do good sprite batching practisies by batching images into single sprites. Often by layer to reduce overdraw on WebGL calls.

If you can I suggest sprite batching into a single sprite object. And then use a variable and build the SOL by doing a compare on the object var... If your not sure what this is. I suggest going through the manual and some tuts

2) Well how you presented the information has you sound like your not 100% accurate. The JPG/GIF/BMP/PNG is only a storage model. Once the system unpacks the image into RAM it's all the same. So while JPG could reduce the download size. It's not really going to be a big difference unless you need that bleeding edge download. Most people don't need it. However if you need it. Just take the PNG in the export and convert it to JPG.

I believe you can. What you would do is store the samples into an array. I was trying to do this for to build a tone frequency recognizer. Once you have your sample in the array there should be a way to push the data back into the audio system.

So this is I believe you can.