Jase00's Forum Posts

  • My object positioned sounds are broken too the last I remember. :(

  • This thread peaks my interest.

    I personally work mainly on two projects: one that's a PC fangame of the game MapleStory (Hence my avatar on the forums is a character from the game), and the other project is a mobile platformer game that I was hoping to release for android.

    I have an easier time working on the PC project, as I can saturate my game with environmental stuff without taking performance hit. However, the best part in all honesty for this, is that it directly exports to .EXE.

    I enjoy making the mobile project, it's interesting to make code work efficiently, and I can understand working with limitations... I just dislike the idea of relying on a 3rd party service in order to get the desired results working fine on mobile. CocoonJS gives AMAZING performance, but (correct me if I'm wrong), it's got severe bugs as of now that crash the app, and to use the service, it's going to eventually cost a fee to use it's service. This could cause someone to think "Should I deploy it now whilst it's free, or wait for the bugs are fixed so the game doesn't crash?". I'm not complaining in terms of "HOW DARE THEY CHARGE MONIES, GAHHH", I can understand money is required to develop these things, but at the end of the day, the fact that Construct 2 DOES lean towards mobile development, it seems the most awkward and experimental export to work with.

    Don't get me wrong, C2 and CocoonJS are awesome, and I'm hugely appreciative to all the work put into it, I just wish something like CocoonJS was directly integrated into Construct 2, so we could have exports directly into .APK files or whatnot, without additional fees at any point.

    My mobile project is more of an experiment to see how the Android Market works. Being totally new to monetizing, I don't know of any good ways to monetize via PC. Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I look at steam, or ad revenue, ect, it all seems much more complicated compared to simply uploading on Google Play after paying one-time fee, and receiving 70% of profit.

    tl;dr:

    PC is easy, Mobile is finicky, how do i monetize on pc?

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/745096_t.gif" border="0" />

  • what about if ashley was the main character, platformer, green and orange theme, he must finish the neverending todo list, every todo is a level

    I'm laughing way too much at this Hahaha

  • Cipriux Never knew this, thanks!

  • Yeah I have this sometimes XD makes me think twice when somethings greyed out.

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  • Whiteclaws Wow that's awesome! I never understood how they worked but I assumed they were difficult. Still, awesome :P

  • Ashley , I realised that project files are actually fine to use now, I didn't look into them enough til now :P Are project files only loaded into memory when they are called ingame? Or are they always loaded just for being a project file?

    Also, I do the "Separate weapon object" method, but when having two weapons that I want to be different (Say I load image from URL for a sword on one "WeaponSprite", and an axe on another "WeaponSprite"), it would replace ALL the frames of all "WeaponSprite", which I can imagine is by design, but if that's the case, then I'm seriously trapped in my project D:

  • I'll check it out, never tried exporting :P

    EDIT: Ok, so the setup I have is that pressing a key will request the file with AJAX for the file "image1.png" with tag named "1".

    Upon load, it will set a Sprite to the correct frame and then load image from URL from AJAX.LastData

    Upon error, a sound will play to signify that it didn't load.

    I tried exporting as nodewebkit both times.

    On the first export, I had "image1.png" as a project file and exported. Opened the .EXE, pressed the key, and the frame would change to correct frame and no sound plays, BUT the sprites frame doesn't change.

    On the second export, I had no project files at all, but instead, I put "image1.png" in the directory of the .EXE. Same results as previous; no sound, animation changed, but no actual sprite change.

    I conclude: AJAX is detecting the files, but for some reason it's failing to load them to the sprites image.

    EDIT2.0: Oh wow I just realised, AJAX actually retrives the ACTUAL image, rather than it's directory, which the sprite doesn't do anything with since "Load from URL" would require a... URL... not actual image data. XD

    EDIT3: I realised project files aren't so bad after all; BUT I also discovered (also on another thread), that Load image from URL replaces ALL sprites image, not just the one specified. This is bad for my case :(

  • Yo,

    I've searched around and tried to figure this out but to no avail...

    So, when previewing on localhost, where exactly would I point to with AJAX to get to images on my harddisk? Which also asks, WHERE should I place my files to load them?

    It seems it's a good idea to load all images as "Project files", but in my game, I have LOTS of images, like 100's, possibly thousands (which is why I'm going to load them externally), so I don't think Project Files is a good way forward.

    Also, when using an image in project files as a test, I could call the file with AJAX, and then tried "Load sprite from URL" with AJAX.LastData, but it wouldn't change the frame.

    Any useful tips? :)

  • There's the good old-fashioned workaround which people came up with in the Classic days: for one tick before changing layout, quickly bring up a loading screen. Then the previous layout is displaying "loading..." while the next layout loads up.

    This is what I do, works great :)

  • Being a Fraps user myself, I am aware that Fraps alters the framerate of the game to the framerate you specify. Try changing the FPS in Fraps to 60fps, though if you have a weak computer it may still drop below 60fps.

    Protip: If you're planning to upload this only to Youtube, Youtube makes all videos 30fps anyway, and as Construct 2 uses TimeDelta, you may as well ignore the fps change and record away at 30fps.

  • Hey there, I love the performance boost on my SGS1 with WebGL! Comparing it by switching it off and on, I get like 47fps with it off on a relatively empty project, and a solid 57fps with it on (I believe this is the max it will go on any project)

    Haven't had time to read through this thread but I'll say what I'm having problems with (All of it is related to physics)

    -Physics doesn't handle the Collision Box of sprites correctly, things are appearing sunk into the floor and stuff from it.

    -"Disable collisions with object" doesn't appear to work.

    -Crash when I apply torque (Screenshot below!)

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/Screenshot_2013-07-05-01-37-45.png" border="0" />

    I'm pretty happy regardless but yeah :P

  • I'm curious about this too.

  • Awesome!

  • Yeah this one appeared alongside the "Against wall sink" bug, probably does relate. <img src="smileys/smiley16.gif" border="0" align="middle" />