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  • I have a challenge that is driving me bonkers.

    In my game a dialogue box is brought up on the screen and system time scale set to 0

    An audio file is played with a tag "Sentence" - it is the first audio file in a string that I need to play.

    Then problem is that Audio On Ended for that tag is never activated.

    If I disable system time then the On ended works as expected.

    Anyone have a suggestion on how to get around this problem?

    You can't set time scale for audio.

  • It is taking more than a minute to open a page... (from southern hemisphere)

  • At best you have to do much trickery to get a 3d effect using C2.

  • C2 is 2D - seek other solutions for 3D - e.g., unity

  • zenox98 it is not a business decision to drop cocoonjs. And yes Apple and M$ do consult users, especially developers, about up coming changes to products and reasons for those changes.

  • Ashley, thanks for the detailed insight on the situation. My suggestion would be that these significant changes should be discussed or explained before you make them.

  • I was quite miffed when I read that cocoonjs has been dropped as a normal exporter. There was no consultation and no discussion. I have 5 apps using cocoon for iOS and Android, never had any major issues. And the one problem I did have I got much support from Ludei to fix it.

    I feel an undercurrent of Scirra having a personal issue with Ludei and, in my opinion, that should not play a role in this.

    There don't appear to be any one-stop-shop alternatives for CocoonJS and quickly reading about the alternatives people complain about problems there also.

    To be honest I am annoyed and surprised by this unilateral move. Please restore CocoonJS

  • Ashley I have been using C2 productively for 1.5 years. We have found C2 to have plenty of features and incredibly well designed. However, the main blockage to productivity has been the IDE

    • search functions - highlight your search query in the text and being able to search across multiple even sheets
    • copy/pasting
    • it would be great if the objects (in the right panel) could be sorted or filtered on type. e.g., show me all my TileBackgrounds
    • debugging is still quite difficult and takes up a significant amount of time in larger projects

    Some of these features I try to use work arounds but when you have multiple people working on a project who don't share a single work system it quickly gets a bit hairy.

    So my vote would be to slow down on the new features and instead make some qualitative improvements in the actual work environment

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  • agreed - would love to see more transparency about future direction.

  • To be honest there has not been much work on making the IDE easier to use. e.g., Why is it still not possible to search for keywords throughout the project? At the moment I use an external program to search the event XML sheets. It would improve productivity significantly if c2 had a decent search function that highlighted the search result - at the moment you have to hunt through large sections of code to find a single item.

    While C2 has received a great deal of new features I believe the actual working environment is pretty primitive. As a developer myself I know how easy it is to concentrate on the exciting new functions and forget about usability and the user . However, a great IDE is what will make more of a difference than being able to export to squiglybox or whatever the new toy on the block is.

  • This is exactly the problem I am dealing with also. I have to create many platform levels which have a number of layers. It it would be perfect if I could copy a collection of objects from different layers and then paste them into a different6 layout with the objects pasting back into their assigned layers. That way I could easily copy and paste many maps together from small map segments.

  • what kind of android device are you using? is it up to the task?

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