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  • 20 Mar, 2008
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  That's the one... in the system object. MouseX(1), MouseX("My layer") etc gets mouse X for a specified layer too.

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  • 20 Mar, 2008
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  1) Try having just one bullet in the layout, and ticking "Destroy on startup" under Attributes in its properties.

  2) Python script is still in early days and I don't think it has per-instance manipulation yet; the primary way of coding games is still via events. Your code is trivially easy with a create action, set X, set Y, destroy, set X, set Y, etc. If you need any help with that, let me know...

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  • 19 Mar, 2008
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  I haven't heard from Mk in a while, so I'm guessing he's not finishing it... I'll try put together a plugin before 1.0.

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  • 19 Mar, 2008
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  No, I think it's a valid suggestion. You can do bullet accuracy in events too, but it's a pain and you need to know how to adjust an angle by a random amount. It's a logical addition to the bullet movement.

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  I'll have a look for the next build... don't worry any more about it for now, I think you'll just have to avoid families as a workaround.

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  You can do this with the Compare Values condition and the Find() expression:

  Find("Source string, with different words", "different")

  different to

  0

  would mean the word "different" existed in the source string.

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  I think it happens on Vista with any application using families. Does this sound right to you?

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  That would make a circular curve, which might be OK, but isn't a parabolic curve like you would get in real life. An easy way to do that would just be to apply a downwards acceleration to the bullet via events, eg:

  + Always

  : Add 100 * TimeDelta to 'YVelocity'

  : Set bullet Y to .Y + 'YVelocity'

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  Hotfix online and working, your IDEs should be auto-updating now... turns out Canvas had the same problem, so that's fixed too!

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  I know I'm being drawn offtopic, but... be sure to play Call of Duty 4 with your 8800GT... wow

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  Interesting, I've been looking up the specs for those cards and they only tend to have a couple of pixel shader processors (4 for the X1400 for example). The 8800GT has 112 (!), so I guess that's the main deciding factor in performance for games heavy on shaders!

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  Smooth, glad we got to the bottom of that. Thanks for your help guys, hotfixing now

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  OK, looks like a debug build slipped through by accident (they don't work without a Visual Studio install). Sorry about that - could you try:

  http://www.scirra.com/files/PlatformMov.csx

  and throw that in your plugins\runtime folder and tell me if it works? If so, I'll hotfix it ASAP.

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  I think it's Control panel - Administrative tools - Event viewer. Presumably you have to be admin to get there.

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  • 18 Mar, 2008
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  No, it should be OK to have different Construct versions installed - I have the last few builds installed so I can check bugs out over builds. MSDN says error code 14001 means:

  [quote:27vu6xdn]The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.

  ...which is odd. Are you on Vista? Does anyone else get this problem? Can you check the application event log like it says and see if anything useful is in there?