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  • You can use "Is between angles" System expression. Say, 

    if Player.Bullet.AngleOfMotion is between 315 and 45 degrees
 -> Player set animation "Right"

Else 
if Player.Bullet.AngleOfMotion is between 45 and 135 degrees
 -> Player set animation "Down"
...

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  • This is a common problem, unfortunately there is no easy way to do this. You can prevent characters from overlapping to some extent, but it's very hard to make 100% working solution. Try searching the forum, there are lots of posts about this, google "pathfinding overlapping site:construct.net"

  • The only way to this I know is using a tilemap with 1px tiles:

    construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/simple-scorched-earth-worms-ga-129595

  • vankiz I was replying to Mayfly.

    In your capx you are showing reflection angle for the white ball and it's not correct. In the real world billiard game the cue ball can only go backwards if you apply a strong back spin.

    You need to show reflection angle of the target (colored) ball. Once you get the angle calculated and shown (as on Mayfly's video), you can adjust physics velocity for the target ball to match that angle.

  • I finally did it! Posted all my example projects in one place:

    construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/collection-demo-projects-149701

    I would prefer to continue hosting the files on my Dropbox, this way I will be able to update them.

    If you still want to create demos for some of these projects - this would be cool! I will add your links to the post.

    Not all projects are worth making demos of course, you can pick the ones you like.

  • 8-DIRECTION

    CAPX Visible field of view (FOV) in a top-down game, like a flashlight beam.

    CAPX Smooth angle change in 8direction behaviour.

    CAPX Simple follower for 8direction behavior.

    TEXT

    CAPX Auto-resizing speech bubble, for dialog systems.

    CAPX “Old terminal” style text input with blinking cursor.

    CAPX and C3P Scroll text line by line. C2 version requires Scrolling addon.

    CAPX Search for a text in a large list by typing first letters.

    CAMERA EFFECTS / ZOOMING / SCROLLING

    CAPX Zoom a sprite or the entire screen with pinch touch gesture.

    C3P Z-elevation effect made with events, allowing to offset camera position.

    CAPX Camera - two examples of scrolling limited to a certain zone.

    ISOMETRIC

    CAPX Walking around buildings in isometric view.

    CAPX Z-sorting in top-down isometric view.

    MISC

    CAPX Comprehensive Undo/Redo system.

    CAPX X-ray machine effect with blend mode.

    CAPX Rotating an image in 3D (frame based)

    C3P Splashes of paint on the wall.

    CAPX Draw a bounding rectangle, or a perimeter around multiple objects.

    C3P Draw a rectangle with rounded corners.

    CAPX Stopwatch displaying minutes, seconds, milliseconds.

    CAPX Skiing or driving game - leaving double tracks, infinite scrolling background.

    C3P Driving a long truck.

    C3P Simple speeding up, slowing down effect for the wheel of fortune.

    CAPX Detect when an NWJS window loses/gets focus.

    CAPX Animation frame change with morph (fade)

    CAPX Chain demo, without using Physics.

    CAPX Changing sound volume with distance

    CAPX Simulate an ultra-low-resolution dot display.

    CAPX Draw an ellipse from its center and any point on its circumference.

    CAPX Fake 3D effect of firing a machine gun from a helicopter.

    CAPX Using Javascript to display Open File dialog, returns the file name to a callback function.

    C3P "Diamonds" transition effect when switching between layouts.

    CAPX Preventing cheating – protecting sensitive data with a hash. Requires CBHash addon.

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  • COLLISIONS / OVERLAPPING

    CAPX Detecting the exact point of collision between two large objects.

    C3P Prevent from overlapping another object while dragging.

    C3P Lasers hitting obstacles. Raycasting feature of LOS behavior.

    CAPX A method of faking destructible ground with mask sprites, and using 'laser ray' to detect new terrain. C2 version without raycasting.

    CAPX Spawn objects randomly without overlapping, two versions.

    COLORS

    C3P Smooth tinting of the entire screen with selected color.

    C3P HSV color picker tool.

    TILEMAPS

    CAPX "Flooding" a dungeon tilemap, detecting rooms and walls.

    CAPX Flood fill a tilemap.

    CAPX Flooding a terrain heightmap.

    CAPX Simple 3D shadow effect for a tilemap.

    CAPX Create a destructible terrain as in Scorched Earth with a tilemap.

    QUIZ / WORD / MATH GAMES

    CAPX Word game - fill in the missing word in a sentence.

    CAPX Simple quiz game with questions and answers loaded from a text file.

    CAPX Math game - quickly type answers to math questions.

    PATHFINDING

    CAPX Pathfinding on a hex grid.

    CAPX Using an invisible tilemap as an obstacle map for pathfinding.

    CAPX Pathfinding - instantly and constantly showing path to cursor position.

    MINIMAP / ZOOMING ON MAP

    CAPX Zooming a portion of the map.

    CAPX Minimap - clicking on minimap scrolls to this position on a bigger map.

    SCROLLING LIST / MENU

    CAPX1 Scrolling a list of players, scores, images etc. Includes a version with multiple columns.

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  • PLATFORM

    CAPX Platform - leave blood trail on floors and walls

    CAPX Platform - wall jumps with decreasing height, camera scrolling/panning effects. (someone else's project with my edits)

    CAPX Platform - push boxes

    CAPX Platform - fake 3D shadow on the ground

    CAPX Change magnitude and direction of a swinging rope (useful for making a grappling hook)

    CAPX Climbing a moving/swinging rope (for example in a platform game)

    RPG / INVENTORY / SHOP

    C3P Simple stacking inventory system.

    CAPX Platformer game about an archer. Includes in-game shop with different items sold on different levels. Simple CSV database of shop items and weapons. (requires CSV addon)

    CAPX Distribute skill points in an RPG game.

    PHYSICS

    C3P Physics puzzler - move and re-arrange blocks with mouse or touch, with snapping to grid.

    CAPX Physics - ball attracted to mouse cursor

    CAPX Physics game - catch apples with a bucket.

    CAPX Physics game - draw lines to catch falling objects.

    BULLET / OTHER MOVEMENT

    C3P Bullet with long trail - two example, with and without stepping.

    CAPX Car moving on a predefined path using waypoints (hold Space).

    CAPX Relative movement on another moving object.

    CARD AND PUZZLE GAMES

    CAPX and C3P Template for a card game – shuffling a deck of cards, dealing cards from the deck to two players, automatically sorting and arranging player’s cards. (C2 version requires MoveTo addon)

    CAPX Simple "Loop" game demo - click on the tiles until they line up correctly. Includes two versions, the one with sprites supports smooth rotation.

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  • Over the past several years on this forum I’ve created hundreds of example projects. I noticed that I often repost links to the same projects, and I’ve been thinking of organizing and indexing them for quite a while.

    dazedangels encouraged me to finally do this, and kindly offered to host demos for some of these projects on her website. I will update the post with the links as she adds them.

    Please note that this is simply a collection of some random ideas and bits of code. Not all examples are good. I don’t recommend them for learning Construct, please use the official templates and tutorials!

    I will have to split the list into multiple comments because of the character limit.

    VIRTUAL JOYSTICK / THUMBSTICK

    CAPX and C3P Two virtual thumbsticks.

    CAPX Virtual thumbstick to control a character with 8direction behaviour.

    CAPX Floating thumbstick.

    CAPX Horizontal only thumbstick, controlling a car.

    CONTROLS

    CAPX Customizable rotating knob controls.

    C3P Move a sprite by repeatedly pressing two keys.

    CAPX Rotate an object by touching any part of the screen.

    CAPX Correctly detect gamepad events in your game. When pressing multiple gamepad buttons quickly, sometimes events "On button pressed" and "On button released" are not triggered. This demo provides a possible solution.

    CAPX Aiming with gamepad analogue stick or mouse.

    CAPX Force player to press a button on keyboard. Yes, it's possible!

    CUSTOM SLIDER BAR

    CAPX and C3P Custom horizontal and vertical slider bars for Construct 2/3.

    CAPX Controlling a slider bar with gamepad.

    ENEMY AI

    CAPX Enemies walking around walls (Metroid-style) or patrolling the perimeter. Does not require waypoints and supports high speeds.

    CAPX Platform - flying enemies that are patrolling, shooting and chasing the player. (someone else’s project which I helped to fix)

    CAPX Patrolling enemies, moving between waypoints.

    ARRAYS / DICTIONARIES / DATA

    CAPX Sorting 2-dimensional array by any column.

    C3P Export array data to CSV (Excel) file format.

    C3P Easily save lots of values in Local Storage – game progress, settings, coins or anything else.

    CAPX Connected listboxes - select category, select product, select model.

    Tagged:

  • Base64 is not a good choice, because it's very bloated. It's ok for small images, but a screenshot in Base64 format can be many megabytes.

    You can now post binary data to url with AJAX. But I don't know if Firebase supports this.

  • The shortest way is to use regex: 

    System Compare two values
 RegexSearch(TextBox.Text, "[a-zA-Z]{3}_[a-zA-Z0-9]{6}","g")=0
 	-> Button set enabled

    Test how it works here.

    You can also use expressions like len(), mid() to check that the string has the correct structure, but this will require more effort.

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/system-reference/system-expressions

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