I have a container comprised of 3 objects which is intended move as a group when a target object is dragged.

Currently I'm separately pinning each of the components of the container to the target object, which seems to work. But every time I want to interact with the container as group, it seems I have to manually pick all the components of the container, which is tedious.

Demo here.

I supposed I can write functions to handle all the object picking, but is this really the only way to treat containers as a single object?

Thanks for any suggestions for improvement.

Is it possible to render custom Javascript output in a project, either in a project layer or as a background behind the project?

The Javascript examples I've been able to track down in the forums discuss communication with Javascript functions, but so far I haven't been able to find anything about displaying Javascript output. I'm hoping to use the output of Javascript libraries as a background in my project (not running on a mobile device) -- specifically looking to use Vanta.js which appears to rely on three.js.

Can this be done in C3?

Thanks for the suggestion. For the moment, I can't see how to lock the invisible sprite's dimensions and pin it to the 9-patch object in the layout view without manually tweaking things every time I want to modify the layout. So I decided to go with an (overly complex?) solution that establishes a hit region on each 9-patch object and some code that tests for the existence of any points falling within the hit region.

Are there any tutorials around that you'd recommend for containers?

Thanks again.

Is there any way to make a sprite whose content tiles when the sprite is resized?

http://i-view.net/construct-shots/tiling_sprite.gif

AFAICT, the 9-patch object won't work as it will scale parts of the sprite.

Any other option here?

Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion. Physics on all objects was one of the first things I tried, but the constraining behavior seemed even worse, probably because didn't have things set correctly.

I updated the test file with (what I believe are) your recommendations. Could I ask you to take a look again and tell me where I'm going wrong?

dropbox.com/s/bv0mhnjfwpt8owe/goo_test.c3p

Thank you

Hi all -- am looking for help in figuring out how to limit the movement of objects that have physics applied. I followed this Construct tutorial to simulate water:

construct.net/en/tutorials/create-water-games-2172

But now I want to move the "container" holding the water. I built this test:

dropbox.com/s/bv0mhnjfwpt8owe/goo_test.c3p

When I rotate the containing objects, the water objects shift outside the container. I spent hours trying to figure out some combination of physics settings to keep the water contained in the box, but nothing I've tried works.

What can I do?

I have a ring of 32 images that is dragged radially (in a circle). Dragging is working fine, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to account for the initial X,Y click offsets, so the circle of objects doesn't jump when initially dragged. In the demo project (link below), when clicking toward the left side of an object and dragging, you can see the ring jump to match the mouse position. How can I determine the initial X,Y offsets to use to account for clicking anywhere on any image?

Demo: dropbox.com/s/29swpgn0wmbtuel/concentric_sample.c3p

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Since buttons can be styled with CSS, you can apply standard CSS glow effects to these controls. Is it possible to apply CSS glow effects to text objects?

blackhornet

Thanks, exactly what I needed.