Hi everyone!

So here's the problem:

When a user clicks on a certain object, I want to add 1 to the global variable that is mentioned in its instance variable.

So it goes like this:

User clicks on a button with instance variable BLUE

I then add 1 to the global variable called BLUE

Unfortunately I didn't see any way to dynamically target a variable, I only found through System and its variable options which requires to manually select the target.

Is there a solution to this?

Thanks all!

this should be documented somewhere... not cool..

Or just an option to disable it.

Cutting the image by 2 pixel actually did the trick. I'm also removing some sprites and converging them in the same with Animations (for example, 3 sprites for the three types of coins are now the same sprites with each design as different animations)

> that would be really weird if c2 added to your sprite... that doesn't sound right to me.

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Pretty sure of this. You can test it by making a 126x126 sprite and a 128x128 sprite and see what the sprite sheets look like after export.

Yep that's the plan! Weird though that some 32x32 sprites where compressed as 32x32 images then!

Well the question you need to be asking is, what good does a power of two sprite sheet do when the renderer doesn't need p^2 images anymore.

Basically I'm trying to get as much "image" as possible for the smallest power of 2 I can.

Its probably because construct adds a 1px border around each image, so your 128x128 image becomes a 130x130 image and that needs to go on a 256x256x sheet. The border is to prevent antialiasing issues.

Damn, I didn't know about that, I was actually doing it myself!

Should I report this as a bug then? Because from that very link you gave me:

[quote:2ud3nzcx]If a 1024x1024 sheet is only half filled, half the pixels are wasted memory again. If this happens, Construct 2 will instead slice the sprite sheet in to two or three 512x512 sprite sheets to reduce wasted space.

[quote:2ud3nzcx]Runtime memory use is reduced by eliminating the unused space around power-of-two sized images.

Right now it is actually making my images larger and adding unused pixels.

how many frames of animation do you have for that one sprite?

also reference this..

https://www.scirra.com/blog/87/under-th ... onstruct-2

Just one, there's no animation for this sprite.

Hi everyone!

How are you today?

Quick question to you all, I am taking Ashley's post about performance to the letter (with my previous tiny game taking 120mb of RAM). I reduced from 1080p to 720p, every image is made to fit in a power of two size, repeated sprites as much as possible, etc.

The "problem" I'm facing though is that I design a 128x128 image sprite, but when I export my game it becomes a 256x256 sheet.

This is the original file used in Construct2, a 128x128 pixels PNG 32 Fireworks project file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fa9a6zyl2htqf9g/good.fw.png

This is the file that got out of the export process, a 256x256 mostly empty, border stretched file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iydqhl26sbyz6 ... sheet0.png

Two questions:

1) Why is this happening to the majority of my images, the stretching and the double in size.

2) With the doubled size, is it also taking double the RAM? Is my 128 image now considered 256?

Thank you all for your time and have a great day <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy">

Jay

WebGL makes performance way worst especially with lower powered phones with Windows Phone. The best blend I got is no WebGL, exported as a Universal app and using only the Windows Phone portion. WebGL though is a big plus on iOS and if you exclude some exceptions, a big plus on Android too. I'm just telling you my experience with the game... Have you tried Cordova and compiling with the XDK?

Basically there is no official support for HTML audio with WP8.1. Although (weirdly) if you disable WebGL before you export for WIndows Phone performance is way better and there is no audio problems so... There you go! All we need now is PubCenter for Windows Phone 8.1! sighhh

Well... after a couple of days of intensive debugging and massive optimizations, found the bug, found this post and unfortunately I see that there's no solution to this... I know some good people at Microsoft, I'll see what they can do!