Jase00's Forum Posts

  • I wish I had good reason to visit Scirra. They only live two buses away from me haha. I mentioned it a while ago on irc and people suggested amusing things to ask <img src="smileys/smiley16.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  • damainman I believe that the 2nd issue has been around for quite some time now :P I kinda just ignored it and avoided having sloped jumpthrus having other platforms close by. Though it's nice to know this is affecting others and not just me :3

  • Jumpthru's are the devil.

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  • California , Are you implying that the origin point of the Player should be somewhere specific? Or am I completely not understand you? XD

    Throwing it out there, but I'm no expert in Platformer systems though I have made some myself in the past but, doesn't Jumpthru stuff ONLY focus on the lower part of the Player? If a player was lower than the top of the jumpthrough and touched the edge, literally nothing should happen, right?

    Maybe that's what California is saying; maybe if the origin point is specifically placed somewhere on the player, Jumpthru's wouldn't affect the player? Though my origin point is placed at the middle bottom of the player. Hmmm...

  • damainman , I've noticed this has happened since the early version, I've had it where if the player Jumps, and is falling, and touches edge of Jumpthru, the players Y speed will go to 0 (like this diagram):

    (Green is the player, Red is Jumpthru, blue is how the movement goes)

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/jumpthru.png" border="0" />

    Also, having a Player colliding with multiple jumpsdowns that are sloped causes glitches (But can't blame the behaviour from 'behaving' weird (lol) as it's getting confused from handling multiple Jumpthrus)

    When it does this, it causes the behaviour to think it's not on the ground, though it is not actually falling towards ground, therefore you cannot jump ect.

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/Floatthrough.png" border="0" />

    The new update has introduced something that's all over my project, where I have solids and Jumpthrus close together, the character does the "Floaty falling" thing like the previous bug, just from walking along the solid into the side of the jumpthru.

    (Orange is solid)

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/Newpushdown.png" border="0" />

    I've bug reported just one bug (one I haven't mentioned here) as I believe some of these thing I experience may just be because I have a tall Player, and I may attempt to change it round so he's like 4x4px (I've tried it quickly and gives a lot less hassle with the jumpthrus) Except most of my project is based around using the Players size for gameplay collisions like fighting. Life choices. <img src="smileys/smiley16.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  • Sup. Awesome release, but a bug has spawned. <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

    Link to .capx file (required!):

    dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/Slidedownplatformer.capx

    Steps to reproduce:

    1. Run capx

    2. Walk into the wall on the right

    Observed result:

    Slide downwards through the Jumpthru

    Expected result:

    Stop against wall

    Browsers affected:

    Chrome: yes

    Firefox: yes

    Operating system & service pack:

    Windows 7 64bit

    Construct 2 version:

    r136

  • Yo Ashley <img src="smileys/smiley16.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

    Steps to reproduce:

    1. Open up any Sprites animation.

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/RenameGlitch1.png" border="0" />

    2. Right click in the Animations list and add a new animation, and then select this animation.

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/RenameGlitch2.png" border="0" />

    3. Click the "Open" icon at the top right of the Animation Editor and load any image.

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/RenameGlitch3.png" border="0" />

    4. On the animation bar, right click and add another Animation

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/RenameGlitch4.png" border="0" />

    5. Type in a name for the animation and click off/hit enter. Volia, the name of the first animation in the list will get changed instead!

    <img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7765312/C2/RenameGlitch5.png" border="0" />

    Also, since it's quite probable that this relates to the same bug, it seems that after using that "Open" button, if you click onto another animation, it will instead select the FIRST animation.

    <img src="smileys/smiley41.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  • My game has 1000+ events and 60mb of memory usage, I get sometimes when clicking, I notice the Layers toolbar goes funny and that when certain layouts with less Layers are selected, there's less lag. Bit random but yeah.

  • It's requested a lot though, so we might look in to what can be done towards this.

    YAY (Even though this is a "might") <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  • It works on mobile/cocoonjs for me

  • +1 though this sort of differs from what I've agreed/requested in the past. I like the concept of the computers resolution changing, as a game that's 1024x648 at 20fps for example, would be squished into a 640x480 window, which hones a great deal of FPS boost for some users (Goes up to 50/60fps). If a game was 1024x768 20fps and could be upscaled more without fps loss, that's great!, except, no GAIN of FPS for users that have weak computer, it'd still be 20fps (better than how it would work now where it would DROP to like 0fps lol <img src="smileys/smiley16.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> )

    Hope I made sense!

  • I don't experiment too much with Ubuntu (Forgot the version, 11.something), I do have it installed via Wubi, so I booted into it and ran a newly exported project that had WebGL enabled on export. It worked fine! But WebGL effects weren't showing up (iirc WebGL worked in previous tests I done weeks ago, though maybe I tinkered with settings in Ubuntu or something)

  • The only benefit I see (and desire) with true fullscreen, is on older machines, I find there is a performance boost the smaller the window is, meaning the user has to have it windowed and small if they have a bad computer.<img src="smileys/smiley16.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

    Having True fullscreen would, since it changes the monitor resolution, allow the user to easily set the resolution to 640x480 or something, and the game can scale to the resolution, thus giving performance boost. As of now, I have to manually change the resolution to a lower one on an older machine, which sometimes messes up the icons on the users desktop and is just troublesome to do. <img src="smileys/smiley21.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  • Yeah .SWF is terrible these days lol, only good for animation in my opinion :P

    HTML5, however, DOES utilise the graphics card :). Construct 2 supports "WebGL", which allows you to use all sorts of shaders to give effects to images in your game, like colouring, blurs, distortion. In my experiences, I've literally only had bad performance when I have done bad programming in the events of my game. I've never had bad performance from too many effects or images as of yet :D

    Oh, and, Construct 2 can export to Standalone EXE too, as well as standalone for Linux and MacOS. I find that performance as an EXE is even better than when running in Chrome (Chrome is recommended when it comes to running in browsers btw)

  • Hey there Matt, welcome to the forums!

    What platform do you wish to have your game on? If you want it for HTML5 on computers (NOT mobile), then I personally find that the performance of Construct 2 is VERY good. I have many effects going on in my game to make it look great and feel atmospheric, and the game runs smooth as butter. Old computers that lack decent graphics cards will usually run poorly, but that's to be expected, since they have bad graphics cards :P.

    Check this out, it's a comparison from the original "Construct Classic" and Construct 2 (That used DirectX rather than HTML5, so logically it should have better performance results than Construct 2, but Construct 2 is better in the tests):

    scirra.com/blog/102/html5-games-faster-than-native

    IF you want to aim for mobile, you may have a bit more of a hard time keeping the performance to a brilliant level if you want to have a high amount of detail and effects.

    There's a blog post from Scirra explaining stuff mobile-related here:

    scirra.com/blog/112/remember-not-to-waste-your-memory

    The concept of having tiles, then decorating the tiles with more objects to make everything look unique is common practise, and in the above link to the blog post, it is explained that the game Rayman Origins uses this method, which is interesting to know :P

    For sparks and debris and stuff, there's a built-in Particle object that is very simple to use, or you can happily make your own particle system with events :P

    Hope I helped in some way!