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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 26 Feb, 2010
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  Is it really that useful? All you need is a subevent - compare UID - then you do whatever you need in that event, and it affects the instance with the matched UID.

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  • 26 Feb, 2010
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  Have a look at these two functions:

  	virtual void SerializeObjectPtr(CRunObject*& obj, bin& ar) = 0;
  	virtual void SerializeObjectType(CRunObjType*& pType, bin& ar) = 0;[/code:1jsz36mu]
• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 25 Feb, 2010
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  Ah, it was 91 seconds, didn't realise (I don't think I ever trigger it because being an admin disables it). I set it to 30 seconds. Hopefully that's more convenient.

  Edit: moved to Open Topic

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  • 24 Feb, 2010
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  Sorry, we can't do it in Construct 0.x, since it's not a unicode enabled program. Construct 2 will definitely be unicode.

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  • 24 Feb, 2010
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  Why not put all the groups inside one parent group and disable that?

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  • 24 Feb, 2010
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  Yep, Construct uses linear filtering (which enables sub-pixel positioning) by default, which can give fine pixel drawings a blurred appearance since lines can be spread over two pixels. Setting it to Point sets it back to "retro" mode for artwork like yours.

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  • 23 Feb, 2010
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  Probably also true!

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  • 23 Feb, 2010
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  I don't think we'll extend Construct's 3D capabilities before Construct 2. (I bet you're starting to get tired of hearing what will be in C2) 3D Box was really an experiment/proof-of-concept that 3D can in fact be integrated in to the engine - but it's since become a bit of a maintenance liability, with lots of bugs and regressions ending up taking a lot of time. In short, the engine was never really designed for it, and it's been hacked in. We'll design C2 with 3D more in mind so we have more possibilities here - but it'll still be first and foremost a 2D game creator.

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  • 23 Feb, 2010
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  Davo, could you submit your changes to SVN? Your platform changes didn't make it in to 0.99.83.

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  • 23 Feb, 2010
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  Moving to Open Topic... also, it might be nice to provide some context (eg. who you are and why you're posting) rather than just copy-pasting a press release to the forums.

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  • 23 Feb, 2010
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  Try making a prototype, and see if that's fun!

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  • 22 Feb, 2010
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  I don't think it's too bad an idea. It's more about convenience and simplicity. Sure the events are dead easy, but in many cases it's just convenient, especially if you're already several subevents deep and need to trigger a scale - having some extra calculations there, or setting some kind of flag to start off a scale, would harm readability. The Fade behavior is a good example - it's trivial to set up in events, but if you use a lot of fades, having the behavior is handy. You can set it up from the layout editor/object properties, it triggers events for you like On Fade Finished, and takes care of timedelta for you too.

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  • 22 Feb, 2010
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  Davo has been absent for a couple of weeks. I think he moved house and hasn't yet got an internet connection installed. I'm voting 'Urgent international priority'.

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  • 22 Feb, 2010
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  Just tried to run an old cap and found the crispify shader is missing.

  Oops, it's back in the next build.

  I know it's a very minor thing, but it still annoys me to see that the CTRL-X command (Cut) is still working as a "copy" command.

  What are you trying to cut? It's coded differently depending on what you cut (events, image editor, layout editor etc).

  99.82 will not compile my specific game to run on an XP computer while 99.8 does.

  ...what about this build, 0.99.83?

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  • 22 Feb, 2010
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  We couldn't do it well with the architecture of Construct 1. It's something we've got in mind for Construct 2.