alastair's Forum Posts

  • Scirra has no control over whether Steam give a discount or not.

    Developers can now set their own dates for sales/discounts, if they desire to do so.

  • Sometimes when I open an event sheet, all of the events are open! This is bad, because it means I now need to close/collapse all events (yet again!) which is a bad use of time as it makes for a cluttered and messy viewing experience, and makes it harder to get where I want to go in the sheet if I have to scroll past every event line.

    There is an option to "collapse all groups", but no option to "collapse all events". Events are able to open and close like Groups, so it would be cool if we could extend this feature to events!

    Thanks.

  • Hey Arima, I think that works for the Mouse object, but I don't think it works for sprites.

    I found a reasonable solution though, it involves creating an "anchor", which is a sprite with the anchor behaviour on a layer you want that is set at pos: 100,100. This is used to determine the scale of the canvas, if we turn it into a percentage:

    100/LayerToCanvas X("Layer",anchor.X,anchor.Y)

    This will give something like 70 or 100% depending on monitor size, so you can multiply this to other uses of LayerToCanvas to make it consistent across all displays, I just jumble it all together though:

    (100/LayerToCanvas X("Layer",anchor.X,anchor.Y))*LayerToCanvas X("Layer",sprite.X,sprite.Y)

  • I want to convert the X and Y coordinates of a sprite on a layer which has 100% parallax to a layer that has 0% parallax and still appear to be in the same position.

    Please note, I'm using fullscreen inner scaling and thus the expression LayerToCanvas doesn't work because the canvas is scaled to some unknown degree and so the coordinates will be different for every screen size.

  • This has been pointed out here in the "closed bugs" section since it's a nodewebkit issue: mega-input-delay-bug-on-mac-os-node-webkit_t109328

    Thought it might be useful to post it in the open as well, so that people are aware of this bug. Currently this leaves only the Windows nodewebkit exporter as functional at the moment.

    Personally, with my game there's a 1 minute delay on the mouse movement/clicking. Which makes my game unplayable.

    Here's a simple .capx that shows the issue if you want to compile it for your mac to see the input bug delay in action: https://copy.com/99TtMwBZ7QKekmNS

  • I really wish I could use a dark theme but I feel like these feature just doesn't work. There's just something about the ones made so far that are so far off the nice feeling of something like Photoshop's dark themes. Maybe it's because the Construct 2 interface isn't affected and thus looks really inconsistent. All of the event sheet icons were designed to be on a light background so they don't like nice when changing the colors.

    A dark theme in C2, and then a nice consistent dark theme in PS:

  • TheDom when it's ready.

  • Use the search function? Try low quality as a rendering setting, in project properties.

  • Hutto That sounds pretty bad, can you post your .capx? Or what about the performance in the example.capx, surely that's not running bad for you? I don't know much about this plugin yet, but could it be because the camera is trying to focus on many sprites and not a single one? Or is the device/computer your testing on just really old and bad?

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  • Were you just pressing directions? I think for gamepads to be recognized you have to first press a button (can't remember if it's a specific one) and then the rest of the controller will work.

  • Using the User Media object, I used the "Speak text" action which plays a voice in Chrome but does not do so in Node-webkit, is there reason for this?

  • What version of Construct are you using? What did you run game in?

    I used a generic USB Buffalo SNES gamepad, and it works fine in the latest version of Construct with both Nodewebkit and Chrome. And this gamepad did not work when I tested it earlier this year, so therefore the support should be much greater now if its supporting mine.

  • Animmaniac When I enable the seamless option in your capx with the build that was released before your post, it seems to look good to me?

  • Nice plugin! Though zoom transition is a bit off, I'd imagine the curve of the transition would be good when the camera is always focused on an object, but when you're treating the camera as a camera that's zooming out/into a new position (like in a strategy game or Civ5) then it feels like the camera is swinging all over the place instead of the camera actually getting closer to a position gradually. Any chance we could get a "proper" zoom?

    Hutto I can only see your event actions, I can't see your conditions. Are you running those magicam events every tick or just on start of layout? Do you still get that FPS drop when you're not running the debugger?

  • When double clicking a sprite in the layout editor, it always opens frame 0 in the image editor but instead it would help if it opened up to the "initial frame" set in the layout editor. This would benefit editing sprites, and enhance workflow.