mOOnpunk's Forum Posts

  • Google Gemini is quite good. I like how you can paste a screenshot or error messages or draw it a picture to help explain and it understand quite well.

    As always the right prompt and good descriptions are essential to get good results.

    Some common problems i run into is if the chat gets too long its less useful, so starting a new chat helps it.

    As Ashley says ai lies or makes stuff up when it doesn't know rather than just telling you, so if you don't have much prior experience with something you can waste hours.

    It also seems to think construct 3 can set arrays as a variable type so you have to correct it.

    If you use Gemini 2.0 experimental you get to see its thought process which is quite interesting.

    This past week its shown me how to integrate a .js library into my project and use it, something i had no idea about which is cool.

  • Just noticed that in the json columns and rows appear to be reversed.

    for example, if you edit a mesh in the editor the point will say 1,4 etc, but in the json this point will actually correspond to 4,1.

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  • Thanks for your help.

    I got ROJO's method working without much trouble thanks to his explanations.

    I'm already familiar with Meshes. Setting a mesh point to a layout position wasn't the problem, it was the other way around, getting the points position from an already set mesh since there's no inbuilt expressions, its not a problem if the point was set by another object since you already have something to go on.

  • Ah ok. Thanks again. 👍

    Ashley can we please get these as object expressions like poly points and image points, for better ease of use?

    Also i think given polygons are associated with meshes, they should be renamed to collision points in the editor?

    So we would have collision points, image points and mesh points.

  • Thanks for taking the time to help and explain ROJOhound.

    I was using unlerp(sprite.bboxleft,sprite.bboxright,meshpoints x pos)

    etc to get the layout xy position but it only seemed to work within the confines of the meshes bounding box.

  • Looking for a bit of help with meshes.

    Due to Constructs lack of being able to retrieve mesh point positions at runtime through events, here's what am wanting to do...

    Edit the sprite mesh shape in the C3 editor.

    At runtime save the sprite data to json.

    Parse the json data, and store them some where accessible, to get the xy position of each mesh point so i can then set other sprite objects to their positions, or further edit the shape at runtime.

    Thanks.

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  • Insight maker has a really nice way it uses arrays as variables.

    insightmaker.com/docs/vectors

  • editor.construct.net/r407-2/components/bars/propertiesBar/https://editor.construct.net/yGo-WcBiKFxRwjDdQbSKot_YC5B1XbMpl55bpxqk7N2ZPmR2A-LUNmK6GYGvmAn9xUis7zbseYotB6BtbpMaYA==

    NordVPN has a terrible interface. It appears you cant actually add specific urls, it looks like you have to select them from a list of sites that its blocking then click add to allowed list.

    Chrome and windows 11 are just as bad, its like a concerted effort to dumb down and restrict access to apps.

  • Thanks for taking the time to help guys, i appreciate it.

    I did what you suggested Ashley and copied one of the urls in the error. I had a look at it and the html code suggested it was nordvpn interfering.

    I had tried disabling each protection one by one to see what the problem was and it turns out its the "ad and tracker blocker".

    Jase00 oddly enough i tried Gdevelop and it runs fine, it seems to be a construct only issue for some reason.

    Ashley was are the exact construct urls i need to add to the nordvpn whitelist?

    Thanks.

  • Ashley i've scanned my computer for virus and malware and its clean.

    Nothing on my network has changed, and i dont have any extensions installed.

    You are right though i dont think Chrome Sync has anything to do with it.

  • Just tried to update to R411 and now the error is back.

    I'm at a complete loss as to whats going on now.

  • Ok i tried clearing everything again and enabling Chrome Sync, then rebooted. Its working again.

    Never had to have Sync on before? Is this a new requirement Ashley

  • Hi, thanks for your help.

    I don't have any extensions installed.

    I tried disabling VPN.

    Tried ipconfig /flushdns.

    Tried deleting cache.

    Restarted computer.

    I also tried incognito mode.

    I don't understand how it completely stops working when my system has not changed.

    I look at some of the error messages;

    Do you have sync on? I tried and it made no difference.

  • Now no version will work. Great. WTF.

  • Since clearing my cache the error list has gotten worse.