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  They have to be square.

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  And for all layers is the 'set display angle' action

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  You should probably look to see if a feature exists before suggesting it! See the 'Set layer angle' system action...

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  David might have one.

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  Looks okay, but yeah, scripted. You can probably reproduce those particle effects with Construct's particles object with an Additive effect.

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  Well, about half of them you can do with the window options in Application Properties... did you know that?

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  I guess it's because the tiled background object changes renderstates for a tiling render process. Otherwise I don't know why. Optimisation is a very tricky area - you can never know for sure something is faster until you measure it. I've had cases where removing code made it go slower. You can't know till you measure.

  It's worth also looking at non-power-of-two tiled background sizes, because they draw completely differently.

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  It never snows here, but we've got like a foot of snow. Went sledding last night. It's amazing

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  Well, that's enough to dispel the "sprites are slower" myth!

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  Check out the loop category of conditions in the system object - "For", "For Each", "For Each Ordered", etc.

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  Added this one to the FAQ because it seems to come up a lot.

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  Sounds like the system expressions article.

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  This is answered by FAQ #4.

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  This is a great idea! It'd be really useful to have a list of mini video-tutorials on how to do simple tasks. We could list them on the wiki as well to help new users. What do you think?

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  It's only if you enable certain options like particle rotation, then it has to draw them like sprites... it can texture particles with one vertex just fine and it barely affects performance from my own profiling. Davo can tell you more about which options go to sprite-style rendering.