Check out the tutorials section. There is a great tutorial for a self adjusting text box using the 9-patch

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/775/self-adjusting-block-text

[quote:8m9yrmod]Here's what I got going

My layout is 720 pixels tall. I also wanted movement speed to scale down with the PlayerAnimation size too, so the illusion wouldn't be broken

System: Every Tick

-Set scale to (1/2160)*(PlayerAnimations.Y + 1440)

-Set 8Direction Maximum Speed to (300/2160)*(PlayerAnimations.Y+1440)

I found out that if I increased the denominator to 3 times the size of my layout, and added the remainder back to the PlayerAnimations.Y, I could keep the Y(720) yielding a 1 scale, while having the Y(0) yield me a .6667 scale.

Thanks for posting. This is exactly what I am looking for. It gives me a 100% sized sprite at the bottom of the screen and not too tiny at the top.

The trouble is that I don't quite understand how you worked it out and I would really like to.

If you or anyone else could explain this in an artist friendly way I would very much appreciate it.

Oooh breath is baited <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I just ran into this. I had sounds set to play at a certain frame of an animated sprite (using a variable). I was getting a reverb effect which was the sound playing twice in rapid succession.

The System - `trigger once while true` works perfectly. Thanks for sharing.

Dave

Thanks. I'm really happy to have discovered C2. It really is animator friendly <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Here is a Chinese New Year e-card done with Construct2 (Animation Anime studio)

Shakespeare's Horse

I think I have found my Post Flash workflow and I greatly prefer the interactivity programming in Construct2 <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

Dave

That's a bit bizarre and something to look out for.

I'm glad you got it sorted

Dave

It could be that your png is over a bit of transparent background. When exported the index.html file sets the background to black. You would need to edit that manually if you want to change it. Below I have turned it to transparent:

          body {

               background-color: transparent;

               color: white;

               padding: 0;

               margin: 0;

               overflow: hidden;

          }

As a test you could try putting a coloured sprite behind the offending bitmap and re-exporting.

Huge Regards

Dave

Hmmm. well it seems like you need to edit the index html file of the exported project and change the background colour from black to transparent.

          body {

               background-color: transparent;

               color: white;

               padding: 0;

               margin: 0;

               overflow: hidden;

          }

I'm surprised that there isn't a project setting in Construct2 to set this or that it isn't mentioned in any of the tutorials. Mind you I am exploring C2 as a flash replacement and not currently for making games.

Dave

Hmm. I can't seem to get this to work. I'm trying to export a html5 animation with a transparent background to a website using an iframe.

I have one layer with the background set to transparent

Clear background is set to 'yes' in the project properties.

My iframe code is (though I have tried other variations as per the stackoverflow suggestion above):

<iframe width="750" height="460" src="http://www.site.com/subfolder/index.html"frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true"scrolling="no"></iframe>

The project tests just fine but once I upload it and put it into an iframe it comes over with a back backround.

Is there a project setting I am missing?

Many thanks for reading this and for any hints or tips you can provide

Huge Regards

Dave.

Ideally I want to keep the html files minified as it is already a bit of a hefty project.

I just bought Spriter Pro and C2 in my ongoing quest for a HTML5 Flash replacement.

One question though, and I realize that the plugin and Spriter are not finished yet, How do I synchronize sounds with a specific point in my animation in C2?