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  • 6 Apr, 2009
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  Have you tried cropping and then centering the hotspot for every frame? (5 on the num pad)

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  It seems like a good idea to look at, but I think in reality, it would be impractical. If you have 100 events set up like that (which isn't all that many), you'd have a massive, sprawling, tangled mess, which you'd have to scroll for miles over.

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  What's wrong about afxres? What is it? Is it a missing include? What compiler errors do you get?

  I think the SDK depends on resources, and IIRC, the Express editions don't include a resource editor. That might be tricky.

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  Have you tried using the Function object to call a function and forget picked objects?

  Using a subevent won't help, because subevents pick from the objects the parent event picked.

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  Crazybump can do heightmaps, I think. You're right though that you must use heightmaps if you're rotating an object.

  I think normal maps are better resolution than heightmaps. Each pixel in a normal map gives a normal vector, whereas you must compare a small grid of pixels in a heightmap to determine the normal angle, if I remember correctly.

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  Report them as bugs or they won't get fixed!

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  Normal maps are faster than heightmaps because heightmaps have to first be converted in to a normal map. So if you can, use a normal map.

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  There are built in functions for handling angle comparisons. Don't use the ordinary compare less than/greater than. They won't take in to account the 0 degrees/360 degrees crossover point, nor will it know that 410 degrees is wrapped around and becomes 50 degrees.

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  A color replacer is easy to write in a pixel shader, but we don't have a colour parameter for shaders yet.

  An expression to get the colour of a pixel on a sprite's texture would probably not be a good idea. That information is stored on the GPU, and events run on the CPU. It would be extremely slow if you requested that information.

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  • 4 Apr, 2009
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  Strings are also converted to values where necessary. For example, you can set an object's X co-ordinate to "500", and it works the same as passing the number 500.

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  Profiling the 'set displacement at' actions probably isn't worthwhile: it's irrelevant if you only set the distort map once, and even if you update it every tick, the extra vertices sent to the GPU are probably a bigger overhead.

  Since there can be a lot of distort map points, using a loop is probably the most convenient, from the events.

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  'Play music' can play MP3s natively without any other codecs installed. I think this is an issue with the codec. Besides, why on earth is it necessary for the codec to put in a task bar icon when playing an MP3?? Caching doesn't affect the 'Play Music' action either, so I'm not sure why that's relevant.

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  • 2 Apr, 2009
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  Use the timeline object to schedule a series of events?

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  • 31 Mar, 2009
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  I don't think mesh distortion would work well for a larger circle. You'd need too many vertices for it to be efficient (remember 4 vertices is equivalent to 1 sprite). Textures are the way to go.