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  • Could be this issue:

    github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues/3718

    You can try creating a folder in the Objects tab and moving either the sprite or Touch plugin into the folder.

  • Without the AI I wouldn't even have ATTEMPTED this feature.

    Yeah, ChatGPT is getting frighteningly good at programming tasks. Almost ROJOhound-level good :)

  • I made a mistake in my previous comment. This code should work:

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  • But it seems this only works when the player is on the right and bottom relative to the camera target object. It doesn't work otherwise.

    Does zoom work? Or both camera movement and zoom are not working?

    Try enabling "unbounded scrolling" in layout properties. Also check parallax setting on layers.

    By the way, instead of lerping you can use MoveTo behavior to smoothly move the camera with nice acceleration and deceleration effect. And Tween behavior (value) to zoom in/out.

  • Thanks, Tom. I understand Scirra's position, but I also see why people who are forced to use shady third-party services to pay for a C3 license might choose cheaper regions.

    What about this suggestion — would it be possible?

    For example, if someone paid for a year using Ethiopian pricing, which is 50% cheaper than the Russian rate, their license could be reduced to six months.

  • Deactivating the accounts of Russian developers is quite harsh. It’s not their fault that they are under sanctions and have to pay for a C3 license through other countries.

    A fair solution would be to adjust the license expiry based on the amount paid.

  • citron2010 alastair gave a good explanation of why people use a global sprite for storing variables. There's also an addon for that purpose.

    As for JSON, I use it to store values that are needed rarely. For example, I might add a key like 'MenuNotificationShown' to JSON. There's no point in creating a separate variable for this since I only access it once in the project.

    It's also easy to save all these values at once in Local Storage - just use Sprite.AsJSON and JSON.ToCompactString

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  • Each condition (value range) of the same variable will get his own result.

    If the COUNT variable is between 0 and 5, the HUD expresses X.

    If the COUNT variable is between 6 and 15, the HUD expresses Y.

    Another way to do this is with ternary operator:

    TextHUD set text to ((count>=0 & count<=5) ? "X" : (count>=6 & count<=15) ? "Y" : "Z")

  • Scale Outer or Scale Inner modes will dynamically resize the viewport to screen size. But it's your job to make sure that the game properly fills the viewport - that the backgrounds are stretched, that the UI is correctly positioned etc.

  • I have two objects for "global stuff" - a sprite (invisible, global) and JSON. The sprite is for variables I use often, and JSON for everything else.

    The sprite also has Tween, Timer, and LineOfSight behaviors, so I can run occasional timers/tweens or cast a ray when needed.

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