Ashley Hi there, it would be lovely to be able to have two versions of Construct 2 installed at the same time. If I am developing something with the stable release, and at the same time want to be helpful and examine someone's capx made with the beta version, I am out of luck.

It would be better for the community to be able to use both versions simultaneously, and better for your development as well, I would think.

Upload your capx if you are still having problems. (please don't be beta, please don't be beta)

or if you've added swimUpVector to the player's variables, then it will be player.swimUpVector.

Glad you got it working! If you're in a sharing mood you could post the basic movement capx so other people can benefit from your work =) We need more beat-em-ups. (I'm hoping someone makes another river city ransom style game soon.)

wouldn't it be smartest to show a few at a time, and use AJAX to load new ones as old ones scroll offscreen? (while using a buffer... e.g. if you're showing 6 at a time, have 12 loaded (3 ahead, 3 behind in case they scroll either way)

ensure you you a keyboard object in your project.

add event: Keyboard>KeyIsPressed>Space (or whatever you use for jump)

add condition: Player>IsOverlappingOtherObject>Water

add action: Player>Platform.VectorY = Player.Platform.VectorY + swimUpVector

where swimUpVector is the amount of upward velocity per tick that should be added to the player. try 250 or so and work from there.

iF keyIsDown == jumpButton

   IF player object and water object are overlapping

   THEN playerY+=1 (or you could simulate jump control on the player platform behavior)

Don't sell yourself short! And also, trig is supremely useful in any video game development. Worth the investment of time if you're at all serious about making images move/stretch/rotate.

I get it better now. Thanks!

I just find that using global variables for things that aren't truly global in scope, leads me astray.

I'm not really talking Construct 2 here, more Javascript and programming in general. I'm a total C2 noob, so I can't say one way or the other about your solution. What do you mean "everything dynamic"?

I personally try to keep everything relating to an object within that object as much as I can.

So for example I like to put position and rotation stuff in the object that handles collision, and animation logic and the like into the object that handles sprite changes. Even though I might otherwise be tempted to handle things like "is the player shooting" or "where is the player" globally since there is only one player.

oreilly.com/javascript/excerpts/javascript-good-parts/awful-parts.html

I personally use a Cintiq (old large one) and it is fantastic. But it is large and expensive and immobile.

Penny-Arcade's artist just gave in impromptu review of using the new Microsoft Surface tablets, penny-arcade.com/2013/02/25 , and he seems to think it's pretty great, and better than a small cintiq.

I've been waiting for an affordable pressure-sensitive tablet, and I'm hoping to get my hands on one and try it out soon (not that I can afford a new gadget of any type, but fantasy and all that).

docs.google.com/file/d/0B-6JjcHcczubZGc1RGtDbF9Dbnc/edit

That should link to a capx demonstrating. t is the step, or speed, theta is angle of rotation, a is one axis of the ellipse, b is the other

The initial transformation I posted rotates about the origin, so this new one is corrected for that.

The parametric equation is:

X(t) = Xc + a * cos(t) * cos(theta) - b * sin(t) * sin(theta)

Y(t) = Yc + a * cos(t) * sin(theta) + b *sin(t) * cos(theta)

AND OMG I NEED TO REFRESH MY TRIG. Thanks for pointing out a glaring weakness of mine. :(