Thanks very much for the help corp.

I liked that game bro, it was pretty cool. It reminded me of an old school game called vandal hearts. The start scene,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Pajl8dMXE

What happened to the game, I want to play it!

It only seems to work on mozzila, but my chromes a bit dodgy. I like the animation and I like how the coin gravitates. did you use a bullet animation for that.

Thank you for the PNG. You have helped me out a lot, if you would like this pack please let me know. I can zip and ping it over to you!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/493330/Spriter_Delta_Missions_Environment_Pack/

The game will have multiple bows, I will try the animation and upload a gif, see what you think !

Thanks for the gift, but im just helping around, i like to help ^_^... even though sometimes it might make people a bit more confused than actually helping...

the effect for coins i think was made with physics behavior... i can't remember.

the game was just an alpha test, i have so many of them, i tried to do a challenge for myself back then to create 50-100 minigames the entire year much like Ninjadoodle with his 7 day challenge, but then i want it to expand it and create a arcade gaming network with in house games... however life hits... and funds are needed to be able to spend time and i just don't have the time for it now... maybe someday i'll pick it up again. Plus back then i didn't knew how game deving works as task based development... and i was overcomplicating the planning and design of gameplay... making my desire to put it in practice diminish, and i ended up jumping from alpha to alpha to alpha and never finished anything .... so now i have around 500 gb of files xD waiting to be taken up again... and maybe someday put them on a website and say hey i do games... quite a beat up story but is just another sorry excuse i guess .... don't be bummed out by my progress lol

actually looking at your generous offer made me think about my store items ^_^ i might increase the discount offer.

It's for a bow, so when the arrow is drawn, the string moves back with it. :-).

i would just animate the bow ... will make ur life easier... 10 frames i think i had something like this in a old game template i wanted to do in arcade... scirra... RGB adventures... the archer is using an animation to do exactly this... and i also added in the animation a spring like effect as when is released the string will go front a bit then come back and like vibrate...

construct.net/en/free-online-games

here is the game... u can download the animation from using the browser f12 on chrome go to network refresh page and grab the assets from it.. i don't know where i put the original capx...

but your other post you did does exactly this, effect i tested it on c3 and works okay :) is just using probably canvas, or multiple sprite dots... i tried with dots ... kinda curved but not perfectly round... more like angled ... my maths is bad XD

here is the png of the archer from the game on scirra arcade

u can see the entire thing is just an animation, and the bow i think is the easiest weapon u can animate...is just a white line or what color u make it be ... for the string... that u change when u need as u want easiest thing... i mean u could do it by maths probably will teach u something but ... depends what you want to do by going that route... if its learning then definitely maths is the way... if its making something work... u don't need necessarily maths on this as long as it gives u the same result.

and here is a small c3p file that uses an animation to curve/pull a string as in for a bow and then move it back to normal when is released...

what are you trying to achieve, like what is it for? i get it you want it to arch but... in what purpose ... bow? cause it might be the other posts we talked about clamps and cos and sins solved this one. if its a animation like effect just draw the thing, and use a sprite animation, would be much easier to understand.

you can do this with maths, animation using sprites, or canvas plugin drawing ... but then ul need maths to make canvas plugin work... so ...

I'm off to the library to get a maths book. High-school level. I think maths is going to be super important.

I'm glad I have found my passion in life, but constantly getting stuck is not productive.

Maths is super important in programming, the networking part requires even more maths, but usual stuff we usually use in C2 and C3 for small games not complex stuff requires atleast basic maths... (which u know i tend to fail also).. so is normal to get stuck is being human, we can't do it all is impossible, unless u give it a long time period.

If you found your passion in making games that makes u a tinkerer in my book ^_^ ud love anything that puts ur brain to work, most of us are like that.

Have a good one mate!

Thank you Fred and Corp for a detailed reply. I'm still a bit confused about this one though

xHand-cos(a)*arrow.str/10

that is translated as this from the image point formula above

x = centerX + cos(angle) * distance

arrow.str/10 ( the value of arrow.str is probably to high and requires reduction) basically is a Live distance that is continuously changing while keeping touch down or some key of sorts or when a condition is met.

here is a website explaining the sin,cos and tan

this one website calculates ur cos values choose degree sign for angle

cos(a)*arrow.str/10 it will give u a value which is basically moving the arrow in this case backwards before it gets released as its subtracted from xhand.

cos(angle) it will return a value from 0 to like 100 or -100 or 200 even depending on the angle value. if the angle is somewhere around 45 degrees the angle value that would mean that cos(a) would be somewhere around 0.7 or so... so if u multiply 0.7 with 100/10 lets say that is 10 0.7*10 that is about 7 ... meaning xhand - 7 in the end... but remember that strength always changes, so it might be 7 the max value but the smallest where it begins drawing might be 1 or 0. as str can be anywhere from 0 to 100 /10.

I'm bad at math also don't worry.

self.strength means there is a local variable on that object used there.

for example if you have a sprite named char you don't have to create global variables to keep track of his life damage or strength

you can use a local variable on the sprite itself and give it a value, then u can use those values by using an action or condition like

sprite.hero is self life =< 100

and

sprite.hero on collision with refill health item

then do action sprite.hero set self life to self.life+healthitem.liferefil value

that is the formula of image points used in this case to set the position of an object to a pivot point

formula for image points

thanks to newt on this one he recently posted in general

xhand is a global variable with the X coordinate of the characters hand in this case or a point position near the hand of the character.

is cosinus from

where

should be equal to

(i don't know where you get the angle value on this one though in your current case)

yhand is the global variable with y coordinate of the characters hand as with x hand

sinus from

where

again is the angle set and used in the x positioning also

arrow.str -local variable str on arrow object, is the strength or in the image point formula that is a distance value.

distPivot global variable that holds the distance of from or to a pivot point, this should be set somewhere in the code or already has it set by default in the global variables list.

this sets the position of the arrow when the bow is shooting basically. going back and forth nice little trick to animate a movement of an arrow before it flies off from the bow.

sets the power /speed at which the arrow will travel at probably, by comparing if strengths value which is probably set while keeping pressed down a button or the touch on screen. it also influences the X position on the xhand-cos(a)*arrow.str/10

Just subscribed on your channel, dude, this challenge of yours is amazing, i meant to do this type of thing a long time ago, when i started using construct but hearing you in the videos, and concepts you got so far(which i agree with), you just confirmed why i didn't started or completed my challenge, is that cause i always overcomplicated the game design, and i wanted to to have more power ups, more design, more features, where in the end the game needs to be fun, simple, and give you that 5 minutes of stress relieve. You are on the right track! i would've joined you but my current job doesn't offer me that much time. Maybe soon will come after your challenge ^_^

How can I easily repeat this command so it works for the Y-axis the same way as it does for the X-axis?

I want a 9x9 grid of the same square object.

u can do that by using (For "") system loop expression.

And u do them like this

start of layout

--sub--for "x" from 0 to 2

----sub---for "y"from 0 to 2 :Action

Action is on the y sub that is under x sub that is under start of layout:

create block at

x= block.Width/1.2 + loopindex("x") * (block.Width + block.Width/2)

y= block.Width/1.2 + loopindex("y") * (block.Width + block.Width/2)

that should create a 9x9 grid.

— Man, there are so many mistakes in your comment... :)

was it that obvious? ^_^ ... 2 years of blogging gone to the drain cause of this post i did ... im the new 4+7 =21 kid on the bloc :)))

Hi i am working with the online chat example in construct 3, i just wanted to know the details of how to create rooms so only a max of 5 players can join at a time and how to create specific named rooms in general

peer is connected trigger once add 1 to globalvariable = players

if user is connecting and players = to 5

kick peer that tries to connect.

i know is ambiguous... didn't played a lot with the multiplayer feature.

about how to create chat rooms ... is more a array thing ... il let someone else to guide there.