Thanks all for the information. Pennington, you're awesome!

I am trying to figure out the basics for doors. I am working on a platform game with several doors leading to other layouts (stages, houses, caves etc.).

Current set up:

event: door, is overlapping, player, keyboard, A is down,

action: system, go to (desired layout)

The problem i am running into is the specific location. sometimes I need the character to go to various locations in the stage. I've tried the "set position to" and listed specific coordinates with no success.

What combinations am I missing?

I haven't found any tutorials on this - am I overlooking?

It seems like this would be a very common feature that I am totally overlooking; like a "door function/action". Maybe it goes by another name other than doors?

Any wisdom is greatly appreciated!

Hi all,

I am new to Construct 2. I am excited and working my way through tutorials. While working through tutorials I've run into previewer troubles - the previewer becomes gummed up with extreme lag.

My first tutorial (Beginner's guide to Construct 2) started fine, then, in between switching from creating an event and testing that event I noticed the previewer started to slow down drastically, almost to a complete halt. I researched the forums and found the "trouble shooting construct 2's preview server" topic and discovered the problem at the time to be my browser. I switched from internet Explorer to Chrome and it resolved the problem.

I've started my second tutorial (How to make a platform game). I progressed to "adding an enemy", selected the "run layout" to preview the game and the lag came back. I checked my browser to make sure it was still Chrome (it was).

I've now gone through the list of "troubleshooting construct 2's preview server". I've also read through several other forums about dealing with chrome directly. Ex. tried Firefox, checked firewall, changed port etc.

No success.

Any help is greatly appreciated! I'm excited to get past this hiccup and carry on with fun stuff!

My specs if needed:

macbook pro retina

64 bit windows 7 via parallels (I run cad programs with success)

16 gb ram, 4gb dedicated to parallels

2.6 GHz intel i7

google chrome

java version 7, update 45