EyeHawk Great stuff. Thanks for testing it.

EyeHawk http://www.scirra.com/forum/topic60544_post371574.html

Hi all,

Here's a simple plugin to detect whether your Windows 8 app is running on either x64, x86 or ARM.

I don't actually have an x86 or ARM machine to hand, so if anyone can confirm working that would be great.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vooqb9fdhyq8h8s/CPUClass.zip

Use with caution. Most of the time optimisation is more than sufficient - Microsoft, and users, expect a consistent experience across devices.

EyeHawk It would be easy to create a plugin that detected the CPU using window.cpuClass. I can do this Tuesday - PM me.

Also, if anyone wants to test on a Surface and can't afford one, Microsoft runs something called a Windows Store App Lab, where you can drop in and test for free.

They're all over the world, you can find a list here: https://applabs.msregistration.com/Lablist.aspx

We didn't register - we just turned up and had a host of devices to test on. Very useful.

We've found tablet devices with an ARM processor gets CPU bottlenecked. You'll even see FPS drops on Cut The Rope and other MS endorsed js games.

We were able to optimise to get an average 25fps (up from 16) on the Surface, which isn't ideal, but it's playable.

Here's what we did:

• Went through every loop and made sure stuff was only running when it absolutely had to. Changing every tick, to every 0.1 second etc.
• Only made objects physics if they absolutely had to be. We'd work out if it was impossible to collide with something, and remove the physics if so.
• Removed as many collision mesh points as possible.

We've found that number of sprites on screen don't seem to impact the bottleneck. I tripled object count with no detriment to performance on Surface.

Check this out: http://www.scirra.com/forum/how-to-load-image-from-url-of-other-website_topic56192.html

Leozy

On Event Sheet 1, right click and include event sheet. Select all the other ones.

Thanks :)

It's amazing what you can do in just a day with C2.

Also thanks to wgfunstorm and boolean for the ChromeConsole plugin that I can't live without.

Yeah the trick was to only make the ball joints visible out of the physics objects. The connectors have no physics and are simply based on the position of those ball joints - hiding the sometimes erratic physics that lies beneath. Works much better than I expected.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Hi all,

I made this quick game here:

http://henryhoffman.com/branchingout/

Some screenshots:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/5B1s3.jpg" border="0">

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/sZVij.jpg" border="0">

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/JgQbT.jpg" border="0">

You can get the full source here. Feel free to do whatever you like with it, though all audio is Creative Commons Attribution.

Source: https://github.com/thehen/game-off-2012

Please also help and get it noticed by the judges by retweeting this: https://twitter.com/HenryHoffman/status/274534579279372288

Feedback greatly welcome :)

Compare the angles.

If

ObjectA.Angle == ObjectB.Angle

and

Distance(ObjectA.X, ObjectA.Y, ObjectB.X, ObjectB.Y) < snapdistance

then

Set position of ObjectA to ObjectB

This doesn't take into account flipping. If you want that, throw negative width and height detection into the mix.

If you'd like an example post a .capx. Kudos for the descriptive diagram.