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  • If you use a loop to do that then you can just use loopIndex

    Set X = LoopIndex

    If you don't use a loop to do that then you can use instead push back at X and then set at

    X = Array.Width - 1

    This will give you always the last X index

  • Is this only when previewing, or is it taking 2 minutes to load when exported and opening it?

    When we export it, meaning that the players will experience that 2,2 minutes or more as on Pc not sure why it takes much much more than that I'm still looking why there is a big difference between the two

  • C3 takes too long to load when you have many animation frames.

    We have 50K+ animations frames and to load the game takes 2.2 minutes.

    This is the only part that C3 has no support for games that need a huge amount of animation frames like in our case.

    This could be solved if you add support for:

    1-Zip files so we can use it to load zips from (C3 files folder or from our server) to make game Updates with new levels

    2-Also, by adding support to write to the disk on (Android & iOS) with the Cordova plugin we could save the Zip files directly into the device disk so we can make new Levels updates easier and without worrying about the MB size

    https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-file/index.html

    This will solve two problems:

    1-Slow loading

    2-We can make updates to add new levels easier which is currently not supported if you need to download the updates from the server.

    At the moment we have to remove more than half of the levels so it doesn't take long to load the App which is not really cool when you spend 1+ year making the game.

    Is there any possibility that you could add support for this?

    Thanks

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  • Very good tarek2 !!!

    Never Ever Share your CAPX !!! PERIOD !!!!!

    and what about if a group of people ask for your Main Master Capx Source to export the game you are creating !!?? it's there another way to Export the game you are creating without giving away your Main Master Capx to them !!???

    its there anyway to export your game without giving away your Capx !!??

    I just felt uncomfortable about all this of sharing my Master Capx.

    If the reason is just for exporting the Game from C3 then you have an easy choice there I guess, as exporting from C3 is very easy is like a few clicks depending on the platform, anyone could do it so why they don't tell you which Platforms they need and you export it for them? that should be the best possible solution and safe for both. I guess there is a lot of context missing so I'm judging for what you revealed so far.

  • The context is missing which is very important for any judgment:

    For example, if they asked you to share your capx because you needed help with some issue in your code then:

    Definitely Not

    Never share your capx even if they get angry, the truth they shouldn't get angry and instead they should encourage you to get used to not sharing your Capx for obvious reasons.

    It happened to me many times in the past that some users shared with me their capx because they needed help and I had to tell them off very serious that you should never share your main project capx and instead do a quick demo example reproducing your issue. You have to remind them of the consequences of doing that which could be catastrophic.

  • tapestry

    Would you be able to share links to those other cases of developers encountering the problem?

    Looking at my Chrom history this is the last ones I visited:

    A lot of them seems to believe is the Canvas issue but For me, I think it's Canvas + some Memory issue because I turned it off and still crashes, though it fixes the problem with invisible objects.

    https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/689071

    https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/684843?answerId=684348022#684348022

    https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/690924

    https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/690924

    https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231157#c1

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    I do agree with "tapestry" and I always said the same thing, on important Bugs like this that are serious will be better to be reported by Scirra for two reasons:

    1-Your company will look way much better, that cares for all the issues that affect your engine even if the bug wasn't your fault. At the end of the day, you will have customers worrying and complaining in the forum anyway which can give a bad image to your product.

    2- Even if "we" the customers open a bug report we will end up on technical questions from the bug developers that we cannot answer and therefore we need to ask Ashley for answers anyway, going back and forwards between them till is resolved.

    A good example of this is:

    I have been trying to resolve a bug for 4 months that AJAX fails to load one big JSON file in my Game and I recently opened a bug with Chrome because no one could tell me the source of the problem.

    So when I opened the bug, chrome developers told me that there is a bug that AJAX is calling twice, then I had to open another bug at C3 GitHub and ask Ashley to check if Ajax is calling twice etc.... which he checked it and said is not. So the point here is that there are questions we cannot answer anyway as these are questions that only Ashley and his team can answer therefore is more suited for the Game engine developers to report them as they can sort it out much much quicker because they can replay any question that they may have, this way you will save the customers going back and forwards, therefore, wasting more time than it should and also most of the time the Bug developers will ask questions that we normal customers we cannot answer so we have to sit down and watch if gets resolved as it's limited the help we can give them. C3 Team will be far more helpful to them.

    One really good point I have to mention in favour of Ashley:

    Is that I give him the link to the Chrome AJAX bug report and he is replying and following up with comments in the Chrome bug report by himself to help the Chrome devs, which I appreciate that he takes the time from his busy life to try to resolve this bug which looks like is not from C3 anyway.

    So if you open a bug report with the other companies and link back then Ashley does get involved for what I saw.

  • Transparency doesn't work well with depth buffers which are required for 3D rendering. This is a known limitation and is probably going to stay.

    Hoh that is a heart braking to hear, almost all the excitement for the New 3D features are gone for me because of that transparency issue as it looks too bad and unprofessional if you release Games in your name with that issue. I really hope you can find a fix because otherways will be no point in using it unless you use boxes etc ((:

    I was really looking forward in using the new 3D in the future.

    Quote: "This is a known limitation"

    I have never seen any other HTML Game that runs 3D with that issue perhaps they do some tricks or something but probably you tested everything already.

  • tarek2 Try switching on/off these two settings for safari on your device, verify if it makes any difference for you:

    • GPU Process: Canvas Rendering
    • GPU Process: WebGL

    The iPhone with iOS 15 had the Canvas Rendering ON by default so switching it OFF and turning ON the WebGL seems to stop the Problem with the objects becoming invisible, however, for a run of 20 minutes it crashes 3 times with white screen and two of them there was no refresh button or any other button to carry on so I had to uninstall the PWA and install it again.

    In another of the tests for just 2 minutes

    It crashed and restarted 5 times and in the last crash I had to reinstall the App again as there wasn't a refresh button or any other button

    It looks like it solves the object invisibility problem but still crashes at random

    I also tried turning off both (Canvas Rendering & WebGL) but is the same issue, it solves the object invisibility problem but still crashes at random

    I googled the issues and it seems that many people reported already the bug to Apple as most HTML games are affected though it has been around 3 months now since iOS 15 and they didn't make any progress, too bad.

  • Same problem here on iOS 15

    But in our case is not at Cordoba export, is a Web HTML export for the website, uploaded and tested on iPhones Safari Browser or installed in PWA.

    We have problems with objects Disappearing becoming invisible but they are still there in their positions as you can touch them and all the events related to that object will run

    I can confirm that is definitely iOS 15 because I test the same web project into two iPhones:

    iPhone8 Plus: That has iOS 14.8.1

    And the game runs smoothly without any issues

    XS Max: That has iOS 15.1

    Here the game run with issues like objects disappearing becoming invisible but they still are in their (X,Y) positions as you can touch them and interact with them, you can see the events firing up when touched.

    This is a big issue as some of the objects disappearing are the Play button, Continue Button, HUD, etc.... so you don't know where to press to start playing or also backgrounds disappearing making the app show the layer black colour instead of the BG. The Game is unplayable on this state on iPhones running iOS 15

    I created a Zip file demo reproducing the BUGS here:

    Zip file

    Some Videos showing the problem:

    This is how it should look the "Menu" layout

    This is how it should look the "Game" layout

    Video1

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/s0pumpt08da1zez/iOS%20BUG1.MP4?dl=0

    You can see at min 00:15 the BG disappearing

    Video2

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/1t7ca6bem1ilqkn/iOS%20BUG2.MP4?dl=0

    You can see at min 00:07 the BG disappearing

    Video3:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/v5t5t1zupg77ip2/iOS%20BUG3.MP4?dl=0

    You can see at min 00:15 the BG disappearing

    Video4:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/h5lgm13xjzt5lz7/iOS%20BUG4.MP4?dl=0

    You can see at min 00:07 the BG disappearing

    ===========================================

    To reproduce it you just need to go back & Forwards between the two layouts until you see something disappearing

  • Thanks a lot DiegoM for the info, that was the issue, I tested again the way you explained and it works perfectly, I thought the Numeric mode will work as the PC sorting which you can use A1, A2, A3 etc... But is not a problem for me I can change all the future names to string numbers ))

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  • Hi DiegoM Thanks for the new features very useful

    I have an issue with the old sort ordering

    None of my Json files is working do you know what can be the problem?

    They worked before

    I tested on r268 and r276.2

    I need to import them in the same order as my PC has, numerical, like this:

    Zip Files:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/8yu5kin2l6kyd9t/alphabetical.zip?dl=0

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/e75svhk8sd77apa/numerical.zip?dl=0

  • Visiting editor.construct.net gives you the latest stable release with auto-updates. It's always worked that way.

    Staying on old releases increases the chance that you run in to bugs and problems that were already fixed. Sometimes these even involve project corruption bugs. So I would advise to stay on the latest stable release.

    Hoh I've been using C3 for the last 8+ months to do my last game and I never noticed this as it's the first time it happened to me that's weird, maybe I didn't prest much attention to it, I'm still trying to adapt to C3 slowly.

    Thanks a lot for the info and for the confirmation.

    And Thanks to Newt again for the Tips

  • Is ok, I just changed the Link path in the Chrome Bookmark to go directly to "https://editor.construct.net/r268/"

    I think it's better to avoid future issues like this

  • Thanks Newt

    This update is a stable. So if you just go to editor.construct.net then it will update to the stable.

    Before they used to ask me if I want to update even when is for a Stable update but it didn't this time, is this a new thing? I cannot remember that they updated automatically before without showing a popup message to say yes update, that's weird.

    What I was doing till now is:

    is for testing (betas or new Stable) Updates I go directly to: editor.construct.net/r###

    And for daily work, I always go to: editor.construct.net

    and when they ask me to update either to Beta or either to a stable I say no so I stayed always in my current version. For me, this is the best option and the one that makes more sense so they don't force the New updates if we don't need to.