Oh, by dithering, did you mean just the little dots on the tiles? I just realized that the picture you posted has all that erased.

I don't notice the flickering, maybe that's a problem with your graphics card

The "blur" is an optical illusion, because of the repeating patterns and noise of the tiles

For example, I removed the dithering in the tiles and the blur stopped:

Thanks for your feedback,.

Hmm, ok that's interesting that you didn't see any flickering. I wonder if there's just some weird setting on my computer. I use Google Chrome and I'm using an MSI GT 70 laptop runnning Windows 8.1 and my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX has the latest drivers.

How did you remove the dithering in the tiles?

Geez, amazing graphics. How did you manage that three dimensional moving sand??

The only bug I noticed was In the first cave, whenever the character shot at a spider or the dynamite exploded, the music cut out and there was no shooting or blasting sound effect. It took the music about 10 seconds to come back on.

Hello, this is a demo I've made trying to get the scrolling to work properly. However, when I move the character around the world, I see a lot of flickering especially if I just move left and right back and forth a bunch of times.

There is also a slight blur in the colors. When I start walking, the pixels seem to blur into adjacent pixels which makes the whole screen a slight shade darker. And when I stop moving, the screen seems to lighten up again. I'm not sure if there's anything I can do about that.

Anybody have any suggestions on what I can do to address either of these issues? Do you have the same issues I have? Thanks

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3px0w2b1qs8rcz0/RPG.capx?dl=0

Holy smokes! That is AMAZING! The graphics are perfectly smooth and WOW!

Looks very nice! One suggestion I have is to allow the player to hold down the ENTER button so that when the characters are ready to attack, they will attack as quickly as possible.

EightMan

It's just hard to know what you mean by "doesn't work". You say it gets stuck on the first animation. Could be an issue with your animation. No way of knowing unless I see it all.

Heh, I assumed there was some native expression like "NumberVariable = ToNumber("99") but Construct 2 is smarter than I thought.

I can simply assign the string to a number variable and it converts it.

It converts a straight number like "99" and even a combination like "99apples". It knows to just capture the 99.

It doesn't like this obviously "apples" or "apples99"

And if you give it something like "99apples100", then it just picks the "99".

Lesson learned!

Post a .capx

If I have a text variable that's equal to "95", is there a way I can convert that string to its numerical equivalent so I can manipulate it as a number?

Thanks

ALLMarkMade

I don't see why it would move away.

Can you post a .capx?

Test for an "On Collision" with the object while at the same time you are moving in a downward direction. This will satisfactorily ensure that you have jumped on the object. However, it won't work if the object is very tall because then you could satisfy both those conditions (collision and moving downwards) by falling against the side. But if the object is very short, it's unlikely

I would then cause the object to animate how you want by using animation frames.

The difficult part will be to make the player move down just a bit and spring back up to coinincide with the animation of the object. You'll have to take into account the speed of the player as well.

So right after the moment of impact, I would disable the jumping ability of the character and have the game control his Y movement to make him dip down a bit and up a bit just like someone who is jumping on a spring will sink down a bit and then up a bit while in contact with the spring. You will have to play with a bit so that he dips down a bit and springs up a bit and it looks like he is in contact with the object for a short period of time.

Once you get that looking good, just increase his jump strength temporarily until that jump is complete, then return his jump strength back to normal. This is assuming you are using the "platform" behavior.