Fixed - it seems my PC didn't think Steam was running (although it was ) so it reverted to the free edition. Restarted Steam and it's all good.

Ha, I'm not buying it again Thanks, I've emailed support, just wondered if this was affecting anyone else

Hiya,

Been using Construct 2 Personal Edition for a few years now - just opened it up today and it tells me I'm on the free edition and prompts me to upgrade? I'm launching it through Steam, and as far as I remember it was fine last night. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this and how to fix it?

Sorry if this should be in /bugs, I thought I'd try here first.

Ah, that helps a lot. Thanks!

I'm trying to procedurally generate fantasy maps in an old-fashioned parchment style (think Tolkien's maps) in my current project, and the curve drawing functions look like they'd be perfect for making natural-looking rivers, roads etc... afraid I can't quite get my head around how they work though! Is there a tutorial for using them anywhere?

Many thanks again on a fantastic plugin R0J0hound

lolpaca

To make it spiral just add 80 or something to the angle. 90 would kind of be just a orbit.

System: distance(PlayerShip.X,PlayerShip.Y,Vortex.X,Vortex.Y)<1600

>Move PlayerShip 100*dt pixels at angle(PlayerShip.X,PlayerShip.Y,Vortex.X,Vortex.Y)+85

Nice one, thank you!

Cheers man - your project's looking ace by the way, it's really come a long way since I last saw it! You've got my Greenlight vote

That's a really cool solution, thanks for taking the time to write that out My only question would be that I want the ship to be able to escape the vortex (by aiming away and accelerating) - with this method, would the player still be able to escape?

Hiya, I'm making a space combat game that will have vortices as transitions between levels... can anyone suggest a good way to make the player's ship get "sucked in" (preferably in a spiral movement) as they come within a certain range?

Currently I've got:

System: distance(PlayerShip.X,PlayerShip.Y,Vortex.X,Vortex.Y)<1600

Move PlayerShip 20-(int(distance(PlayerShip.X,PlayerShip.Y,Vortex.X,Vortex.Y)/80)) pixels at angle(PlayerShip.X,PlayerShip.Y,Vortex.X,Vortex.Y)

Thing is, this just pulls the player directly toward the vortex. Is there a good way to make it happen in more of a spiral fashion? Geometry's not my strong point

Great behaviour, thanks for sharing!

How about : Whacka-Flappy-Candy-Clicker-Bros?

Remember me when your famous.

Hey, you stole my idea!

I forgot to mention it's a tiled background object and that seems to be the problem; when I use the same image as a sprite it looks fine. Ho hum.