The Blazer makes me think of a sales person, the tie and pocket handkerchief brings it more upscale so a keeper of a expensive shop. The glass' look antiquated giving the view of maybe someone working with antiques or artifacts. The fact of the glass' being opaque and the come over give the hint of maybe something shadier going on then first impression would make. Also in classic cinema a moustache usually goes with dishonesty.

Maybe a sympathetic character with a past, but trying to move forward. Probably is responsible for your plight in a slight way. Sells you a cursed item to try to get rid of it maybe.

Could you go into more detail on what you mean by "Retro Button Menu"? I dont really know what you are trying to do.

JeremyBenson11

That dotted line is the right boundary of your viewport window. Click on the top most folder of your project, usually the folder that is the name of your game. Then on the left under properties you can change the "Window Size" if you wish to have a window of 512x512 then you will change the window with and height to 512 and 512. Then using your 32x32 tile set you will then have a 16x16 grid on your page to do with as you please.

Your project properties have a lot of features to look at for every object in the game. When stuck on something looking there is usually a good place to start.

The tiles may be 32x32 but when you click on the tilemap object in the tree and look to the detail panel on the left dose that say your tiles are 32x32?

Form controls can be set with CSS, in a list you can set "FontStyle:Comic Sans;FontColor:Pink" or however you fancy. I am right now working on how to get my form controllers to look great. However remember that this is built in HTML5 meaning that it has web standards that must be met. here is a complete list of all css commands and while they don't work for every form they will give you a good idea of how css works without having to learn how style sheets work.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

edit<< As I am still working out CSS3 I found this that might be of intresst to you http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_fonts.asp

Both var1 and var2 will be set to 1 but C2 works in a cascading hierarchy. When a layout is started C2 reads down the list top to bottom going through each event so long as the conditions are meet. The important thing to understand about the coding is what events take priority over others.

So if you have something like a bomb we are detonating at random

On Layout Start -> Set var1 == 0

For EveryTick -> Set var1 == round(random(0,9))

On Function "Boom" -> Destroy SpriteBomb & Play Boom sound clip

If var 1 == 5 -> Then do function "Boom"

In this case c2 looks from top to bottom for conditions it first sees On Layout Start which has a green arrow, meaning it is done first. So var1 is set to 0, this is also a condition that triggers once and is done unless the layout is restarted.

next going down it sees EveryTIck, Every Tick is a way to say "Always do this till I say stop" so every moment the game is running it is setting var1 to a random number between 0 and 9, it is also being rounded to a whole number. This event will continue to do its own thing without the program really having to do anything

Next is a Function called "Boom" Since it has not had it triggered it skips it entirely

Next is a condition seeing if var1 is equal to 5. It will bounce back in forth between the Everytick and this condition till the condition is meet. once var1=5 then the function is called and it skips straight to it. Note "Boom" is specific so you can have as many functions in a event sheet as you want and know that one trigger can do more than one action provided that each on function matches the string that the function is called

Finally there is a exploding animation then the sprite is destroyed and then a sound fx is played in that order

Events only matter what order they come in if they have either the same trigger. otherwise most of your event sheet will be inactive but c2 runs that checklist constantly till a condition is meet

I hope this was helpfull

CrazyVulcan

So far I think I have got the pure rear/above and front/above perspectives down, but still no idea how I could get the side angles working smoothly...

Is there someway I can use Construct 2 to slowly warp between the 2 images when turning/cornering/rotating, so it gives the illusion of it being seen from a different angle/perspective?

Thanks

I assume that you are making a isometric tank. Not the easiest to do with just the free version of C2 but I will try. Attach a instance variable to your tank sprite, call it Direction. Then you need to have your tank sprite set up for using animation frames. Just the one animation for now but all it is an series of shots of your tank facing Right ie 0deg and have frames rotating around at 30deg increments. Basicly what we will be doing is change frame based on what direction we are moving. Now the fun part, set up a condition trees

If Direction = 0 Then set frame for TankSprite.imageframe = 0

If Direction = 30 Then set frame for TankSprite.imageframe = 1

If Direction = 60 Then set frame for TankSprite.imageframe = 2

If Direction = 90 Then set frame for TankSprite.imageframe = 3

etc

Really all that is left is making conditions for turning. Just Add +or- 30 to Direction for each mark of turning Left or Right. You can just have the sprite move along the same path as it is facing with little problem. By decreasing the size of the turn you can get smoother turning but you only have 100 events so space is precious.

edit- One more thing

Dont mistake Direction to be == to SpriteTank.Angel you are not actually rotating your sprite you are in fact just animating it to appear so. You can still use Direction for moving the spire with Move SpriteTank at angel = Direction

Have you looked into using functions? Use one function for each menu? and then call them independently.

That seems so much like it should work... but I must still be doing something wrong because after the first element (of 3) gets added, I get a Javascript error about being unable to read property 0 of undefined.

My JSON looks like this (and it matches EXACTLY what I got when I hard-coded the values and output it using asJson):

{
	"c2array" : true,
	"size" : [3, 1, 1],
	"data" : [[["Item1"], ["Item2"], ["Item3"]]]
}[/code:1yh3p4sx]

I know this is stupid, but exactly how hard would it be to add a behavior for Selects that lets it import a 1D JSON array? I think this might be handy for other people as well. Keep in mind I'm somewhat experienced with JS but have never written a C2 plugin before.

P.S. In your example, one of the dimensions is 0. Shouldn't that make the array have a net size of 0?

EDIT: Ha! I got it to work by switching two dimensions in my size. From [3, 1, 1] to [1, 3, 1]. Thanks a ton.

Your welcome, I should have mentioned that "size":[row,column,depth], sorry for the confusion.

CrazyVulcan

hey I made this code

"{""c2array"":true,""size"":[4,6,1],""data"":[[[""Click on the Blue""],[""Red#0""],[""Green#1""],[""Blue#2""],[""Yellow#3""],[2]],[[""Click on the number Two""],[""Two#4""],[""One#5""],[""Three#6""],[""Four#7""],[4]],[[""Click on the Star""],[""Circle#8""],[""Triangle#9""],[""Star#10""],[""Square#11""],[8]],[[""Click on the Purple""],[""Circle#12""],[""Triangle#13""],[""Star#14""],[""Square#15""],[13]]]}"

the problem is, that the question number 4 doesn't want to appear. It's just showing 3QA

please help me

I don't suppose you would mind linking a Dropbox link to a .capax of what you are trying to do. From your example I am not really sure what you are trying to do or how you plan to use it in your game.

Going back to my example in a game you would have your array and your screen will have four text boxes. You will also need a global variable to sort though the array. Just when you want the next question use "Set Value = random(0,10)" and then use that to call the needed row in your array.

Then it is a matter of changing the text of each text object to the corresponding section of the array. You will also need to run a For Each loop where you "row# = Global Variable"

If I find the time I will make a demo .capax to show you but it may be a day or two till I get to it.

For a array to load properly from a .json it needs to be formatted in a particular way

{"c2array": true, "Size:"[2,3,0], "Data":[ [ ["Item Text 1"],["Item Text 2"],["Item Text 3"] ],[ ["Item Text 4"],["Item Text 5"],["Item Text 6"] ]]}

Load that with Ajax.LastData and you are on your way.

https://www.scirra.com/forum/why-can-c2-not-read-a-json-files-it-itself-makes-solved_t150889

I ask much the same question recently.

Oh yeah, I think I actually saw it, but since I did not have the required plugin, it failed to open. I was at work, and already had spent to much time goofing around with Construct so I kept it for later then forgot all about it... D:

Dont worry about it lol it's all good