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  • If we color a sprite solid white, then in the editor properties (on the left) set the color to 255,0,0 (red)

    Then in code we want to change that to green how do we convert the values so its exactly the color we want?

    Since Set Color has values from 0-100 and in the editor the values go from 0-255

    Should I instead only rely on Set Color since that adds a tint whereas Color doesn't? But don't I need to reset it in between?

    I hope I'm not the only one very confused by this...

  • I think what OP is asking is can you assign 2 tags to the same audio.

    you can't do this either, but you can refer to the last played audio with leaving the tag blank like this: 

    Start of Layout > Audio compression on tag "weapons"

OnShoot > Play shoot.wav tag: "weapons"

	// change pitch of last played shoot sound
	Audio playbackspeed random(0.9,1.1) tag: ""

  • Ashley I had been using Construct with a large project for about 3 hours - in and out of preview mode with no issues, when at the end of my night I previewed one last time, then quickly exited and the grayed out issue happened.

    Could it have anything to do with the particular Construct Event Sheet that is running when closing?

  • Ashley I think I got a decent screen shot after hitting F12

    as I said, right after this message, I hit F4 started the game, 2 seconds in I hit Escape (Browser Close) and all was well.

  • OK, so that sounds more like something to do with Construct. But there's still very little to go on, as ever the reproducible steps are key. Any idea if you can narrow down when precisely the "greying out" (dimmer) appears?

    Ashley Another clue is that it does not seem to happen on small projects. I have a project that is about 2000 events and 5000 actions with 8 layouts and 15 event sheets and this is where it seems to happen often.

    When I try to reproduce the problem, it doesn't happen, this is why it feels random or something I am doing and not totally aware of... I'm usually quitting the game really fast because I am testing, maybe the game is in the middle of some action or something? But I am using worker so I'm not sure how that effects the Construct tab in Chrome.

    Not working on it until tomorrow, I will investigate more then...

  • Ashley the "grayed out form" is the same grayed out look the rest of the sheet gets when you double-click an action and get the pop-up box. The Sheet underneath the pop-up dialogue is grayed out.

    Except that when I return from the worker (closed using Browser>Close) the Construct3 Sheet is completely grayed out as if I have a dialogue opened.

    It seems only hot keys work like: Ctrl-S and F4. When you play the game again and close, it usually goes back to normal. But one time tonight it happened 4 times in a row. But other than that time it does feel random. I'll see if I can get a good screen shot of it.. not sure it will show you much.

  • mekonbekon opening a new Chrome Incognito didn't work for me. I just have to run it again (F4) and Escape out - it seems to work about 75% of the time. It's extremely annoying.

    It may have something to do with fullscreen maybe?

    Ashley do you by chance know what is happening? I run a game from C3 using F4-key and sometimes when I exit it (using Browser Close within the game) when I go back to Construct it is grayed out as if I had a window/dialogue open. It won't let me do anything, except I can hit F4 again. Then usually from there the game runs again and I can close that tab and when I return to C3 its back to normal. It seems to happen about 25% of the time when I run a game. This just started happening this past week. using Chrome.

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  • mekonbekon I will try that, thanks!

    also when I run the game, I'm in worker mode, so I would think it wouldn't have anything to do with the current Chrome thread.

    Since my orig post it happens now regularly - I've been testing a specific layout with Preview. I'm not sure if it's something in the project I'm working on or not. I usually can fix it by running the full program (F4 literally the only thing it responds to) and then hitting Escape after the game runs, but sometimes it doesn't work and I have to run it 2-3 times before it comes back.

  • Anyone else have this issue?

    I have a couple different ways to close my game. They all use the Browser Object Action > Close. But for some reason lately if I do it too quickly after starting the game (preview) or other random times - when I come back to Construct the whole form is grayed and I can't interact with it as if there is a window open somewhere. The only thing it allows me to do is to hit F4 again and it will restart the game. Sometimes this is all I need and it then comes back, but other times it won't and I have to close the tab and I lose anything after the save.

    Anyone know what is happening? I've been using C3 steadily for years now and this has never happened to me before. Now in the span of a week (I have been doing a lot more quick tests where I am running and exiting quickly) it's happened at least 20 times.

    I'm running the current stable version.

  • make a few levels, and post it to a website or on itch and have people get back to you.

    try to ramp up the difficulty or rather the complexity. make the first one REALLY simple, then go from there. Try to break it down in small steps.

    I'd be glad to play it and give you feedback.

    I think the art is great!

  • Hi everyone!

    I'm introducing my game called ALPHA ONE an action/strategy game. The action is similar to Asteroids and the strategy is like a 4X strategy game but lighter.

    I'm always looking for testers! Please let me know if you are interested - I have a playable demo I can send you.

    Signup to the mailing list or contact (if you want to be an alpha tester) at http://www.spacecapsulegames.com

    I'm planning to release this on Steam late this year

    http://store.steampowered.com/app/1383520/Alpha_One

  • looks good! glad you got your kids involved....maybe they can help you more during quarantine!

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