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• • alastair
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  • 12 Sep, 2011
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  Is this what you mean?

• • alastair
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  • 12 Sep, 2011
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  Based on what I think you meant:

  Basically when you start holding down mouse, make 2 variables of where mouseX and Y is. When you stop holding down mouse button make 2 variables of where mouseX and Y is.

  You now have enough coordinates to make a box. When mouse button is released make a loop for each side of the box, the length of the loop is based on the distance between each point of the box (then divide by 32 cause of your sprite size). Then create the sprite at the index of the loop.

  <img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1024727/caps/selectbox.JPG" border="0">

  CAP example

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• • alastair
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  Wow, that's fantastic! Thanks for your time R0J0.

• • alastair
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  • 11 Sep, 2011
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  Thanks a lot tulamide! I really don't understand python much (only using it to change cursor in my game so far). Not sure how to get that pygame thing. Do I make a directory for it like I have with ctypes and do the "sys.path.append(System.AppPath + 'data')" at the start of the script? How would I access the list its made ("modelist = pygame.display.list_modes(32)") with events?

• • alastair
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  • 11 Sep, 2011
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  Hey, just wondering how I can get what resolutions a users computer can do. I know you can get their desktop resolution, but I'd like to know of lower resolutions too.

  For instance, in many (most) games when you go to the video options they'll have a drop down list of the resolutions your computer can support. And I'd like to make a similar thing.

  Or do they just list any resolution thats not larger than your desktop resolution?

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• • alastair
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  • 10 Sep, 2011
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  Don't stay up late at night! No later than 11:30 please.

  This is pretty cool though, Construct events are really bright at night!

• • alastair
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  • 9 Sep, 2011
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  For some reason thought this was about a new sprite font plugin.

• • alastair
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  • 9 Sep, 2011
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  I dunno why I put x there

• • alastair
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  • 9 Sep, 2011
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  Theres a 4 billion ways to do this, one way: "BaseHP +((lvl^2)*X)"

  Just change the 2 to 1.1 to be less dramatic or to 8 to be more dramatic.

• • alastair
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  • 9 Sep, 2011
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  looks cool

• • alastair
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  • 8 Sep, 2011
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  Dont know if you should use that when there is a new plugin:

  scirra.com/forum/plugin-audiere-sound_topic42873.html

• • alastair
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  • 7 Sep, 2011
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  Its usually best not to have platformer behaviour on the actual player sprite. Maybe make a sqaure or whatever sprite with the behaviour then have the player sprite always positioned to the sqaure sprite.

• • alastair
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  • 6 Sep, 2011
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  I recently made something very similar to this for my game, except I only made it calculate the light when you change tile. Which helps keep the framerate higher.

• • alastair
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  • 4 Sep, 2011
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  These 2 pages from the wiki are probably essential to read as well:

  Time scaling

  Time delta

• • alastair
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  • 4 Sep, 2011
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  I think tulamide or Ash or someone said before not to use "Every x ms" since its not actually accurate.