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• • alastair
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  • 13 May, 2021
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  C3 keeps defaulting my loader style to "C3 splash screen".

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-3-bugs/issues/3744

  I'm not sure if this is a problem with the launcher or with C3, since Ashley thinks it might have been fixed.

• • alastair
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  • 10 May, 2021
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  Some recommendations for cpu:

  Any event that can be triggered, should be triggered.

  Avoid running anything every tick, even though it seems like it might need to. For example, setting something to the mouse position every tick. This can be optimized by setting it to the mouse position only when the mouse moved from it's previous position instead.

  This seems like general good advice but I'm not sure if I'm doing it enough or not.

  For instance with your mouse example, it feels like checking whether the mouse has moved would be slower to figure out than just setting the object to mouse position? Or barely a difference?

• • alastair
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  • 9 May, 2021
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  Thanks nyuszi008, my game is running using that!

  I'm guessing that when it's on Steam, that Steam will somehow just run the file without having to type a command in terminal each time.

  Interestingly, I transferred both the zip and the extracted zip to the Linux Mint computer, and it seems to be able to run both versions.

  However the external level data files that I normally include alongside the .exe on Windows, when I transfer them from windows to linux it doesn't seem like that works here. Perhaps it's related to that permissions thing.

• • alastair
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  • 8 May, 2021
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  Thanks Ashley!

  I'm not sure how to run it from terminal. (Also just as a heads up your tutorial doesn't say how to do run the game either construct.net/en/tutorials/exporting-desktop-apps-nw-js-15) Maybe Linux is just not supposed to be user friendly.

  But yeah it seems really messy, or tedious, attempting to make builds for non-Windows systems unfortunately. Perhaps it's just not really possible.

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• • alastair
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  • 7 May, 2021
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  How do I run my exported NWJS game on Linux?

  I put my exported Zip onto Linux Mint (I'm new to linux, but this one feels like windows) and when I extracted it, the [project name] file does not have a file extension, so how do I run my game?

  On windows, the file has an .exe which lets you run the game. But why is there no extension at all on the linux version? What am I supposed to do next?

  Thanks!

• • alastair
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  • 30 Apr, 2021
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  Hey Shubi did you see the latest beta?

  construct.net/en/make-games/releases/beta/r246

• • alastair
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  • 22 Apr, 2021
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  Maybe these features should also be requested here officially?

  construct3.ideas.aha.io

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  • 19 Apr, 2021
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  This is impossible to do privately, they've removed the feature to send a personal message to someone.

  The best way for you to do this is to create a post on the forum and mention the user that created the asset.

  For instance if I do the (at) symbol with your name it will alert you keshera

• • alastair
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  • 18 Apr, 2021
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  I know Ashley is worried about going too far with 3D features, but there's still some additional 3D features that would fit this kind of engine (e.g. the repeating textures, spinning an object, or tilting the perspective/camera).

  You could almost do a mode7 type effect now with the 3d shape object?

• • alastair
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  • 14 Apr, 2021
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  Yeah repeating textures, like how we have the tiledBG, could be useful for things like the ground etc.

• • alastair
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  • 13 Apr, 2021
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  Does this only work on Windows computers?

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• • alastair
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  • 6 Apr, 2021
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  There was no comment about it on the latest release construct.net/en/make-games/releases/beta/r243

  But perhaps it could still be coming in a beta release soon.

• • alastair
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  • 3 Apr, 2021
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  It looks 98% real to me! He's just playing with our hearts for fun 😉

• • alastair
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  • 1 Apr, 2021
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  twitter.com/ConstructTeam/status/1377632106587766791

  Was posted on April 1st, but the 3D and functionality looks so real to me! 😍