TheRealDannyyy's Forum Posts

  • This may sound dumb, but how do I change my default browser? I know how to change the browser that I use for each game, but I have to change it from my default to chrome. Is there an easy fix to this problem?

    File > Preferences > Preview > Default preview browser [dropdown]

    This will not change existing preview browser settings from older projects but every new project you create,

    will have the selected option set as the "default" preview browser.

  • What I mean is how I can integrate it into a C2 game...

    1) How can I include NPM module in a C2 export?

    2) How can I access methods in NPM module with C2 interface?

    Sorry to say the following but I think that I will not include this in the roundup.

    (It's too much information that I cannot sum up in a short paragraph.)

    However Armaldio, a guy that knows a lot about the java's and the scripts might be able to help you out.

    He's already made and updated a tutorial about it HERE, if you still got questions left feel free to join our discord server and have chat with him about it.

  • Amazing effect thanks a lot for making this!

  • Thanks for this wonderful and useful resource.

    Would love to see some detailed information and examples about using NPM modules in games

    Thanks for your feedback!

    What exactly would you like to know about NPM modules?

    I don't think that I could sum the use of NPM modules better up than the NW.js team already did HERE.

    If there's something specific that you would like to know about, I could try and see if I can make it easier to read and a little more understandable.

  • Updated the Roundup with the following change(s):

    • How To: Speed Up The Startup Time Of Your Game By Up To 20%
    • How To: Secure Your Game Assets The Right Way

    Thanks for your suggestions, keep'em coming!

  • TheRealDannyyy, Exactly!!! Didn't know you recommended about this too, even though I searched for it in the forum.

    Any update on this yet?

    Not really, I doubt that there will be anything done about it in C2.

    More a thing that C3 will hopefully do better by providing us more options.

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  • Basically a suggestion to change the runtime scaling mode.

  • Hey, is it possible to export a game to a hacked psp?

    I doubt that there is an official way or "exporter" for that, the console is just too old.

    If you're really up for it you could try to load a website using the browser (I think the PSP had a browser app).

    When it runs fine using the browser you could try a workaround by creating a native PSP ISO and using one of the many webview libraries to load a website.

    Since you use a hacked PSP you should know how to install custom ISO's as well. Either way it will be a buggy mess because a lot of web-based features will not be supported.

    Might still be something you could try out in your freetime, I'm sure that there are a lot of ancient forums about how to do the things I mentioned above.

  • These are some results after I've working around with physics without vsync.

    *results here*

    I think a new topic for this would be nice. I'm not really the guy that can fully explain you why things behave that way.

    Feel free to "tag" me to your topic, if you decide to open one up of course.

  • It just takes a little time to change the listbox object I made. To be honest it only has 3 options. But it'd be pleasure if there is a solution.

    By the way, with your method. The utmost thing for Construct 2 had been fixed (in terms of marketing). I hope later NW automatically enable single process. Because I don't sense any performance drop by using it. Or they can make it more stable later.

    It's showing some really weird behavior to some users, I've had two people in Discord PMing me about minor drops in performance already.

    Of course to confirm this I did my own measurements and they turned out to be positive, meaning that you have 1-5% worse performance using single processing.

    There is also an issue were --single-process would crash while starting the preview, there's no way to reliably reproduce this yet.

    Ah, one more thing. --disable-gpu-vsync makes physic engine go insane. I think physic is based on vsync.

    That's weird, did you make sure that all of your physics based ACE's have "* dt" in them?

    If you did that and it's still going insane, please upload an example capx and share the link with me.

    I'll report it straight to Ashley, maybe he forgot to add dt inside the behavior itself.

    EDIT: After giving the "dt" tutorial a read again I've found the following:

    Note that Physics is an exception. By default it does not use dt, and therefore is framerate dependent. This is because dt usually has small random variations. These variations can make the same setup in a physics game give different results even if exactly the same thing is done twice. This is often annoying for physics games, so by default it is framerate dependent. However, you can enable use of dt by using the Set Stepping Mode physics action on start of layout, and choose Framerate independent. Note in this mode it still clamps the maximum timestep for physics to 1/30 (about 33ms), because using a very large timestep can cause instability in physics simulations.

    Please make use of the highlighted part, if you still experience issues with that please upload an example capx and share the link with me.

  • "> How To: Only Have 1 Process While Running NW.js (NW.js v0.18.6+)

    ...

    Bandicam is working with this method.

    But it stops and proceeds recording again whenever I touch list box.

    Can be related to form elements rendering above the canvas but I'm not sure.

    I currently don't know a way to workaround that, I guess there must be some way to "merge" form elements and the game canvas together so that the recording software can detect it right. You can also do your own type of "listbox" by using sprites and text, just an option in case you need a quick solution.

    I'll tag you if I find anything useful, glad that you're at least able to record using that method.

  • There's some great info on the front page.

    I have one correction to offer - if you download the "Normal" version of NWjs then you don't need to add --disable-direct-composition to the "chromium-args" properties (the SDK simply does not exist and cannot be summoned in the Normal build by right-clicking or pressing F12 - ref (build flavours)).

    I assume you meant "--disable-devtools" and yes, you're right about the normal builds not having devtools at all.

    However I would like to keep NW.js starters away from custom builds and let them install the "safe" NW.js builds by Scirra, usually adding the arg "--disable-devtools" should be enough to turn off all those ways to access the devtools (right-click menu's and F12).

    On top of that you're still able to open the devtools if you like to, by eventing your own type of behavior like pressing a secret combination of keys.

    ...and I have a question. When disabling vsync (by adding --disable-gpu-vsync to the "chromium-args" properties) how can I then change the fps that the game is being run at to, say, 144 when my monitor refreshes at 60 Hz? I don't observe any difference to fps with the argument set (solidly 60) and that happens with or without a system minimum framerate being set.

    I'm not sure if that is possible, I will look into that and see if there is a way to do that.

    I predict that it's not possible because then there wouldn't be a need for THIS feature request. (Please consider leaving a Star.)

    Technically we would drop down the frame rate from ~300fps to 144fps, so I guess It's like the thing they want to achieve.

  • Hi Tom!

    I assume you're the one that takes care of the forums, so I'd like to request support for text anchors using bbcode.

    This feature would make it easier to navigate inside huge posts like the THIS one for example.

    (The info found on THIS ancient phpBB forum thread might help you out.)

    This is not an urgent request and can be done whenever you got the time for it.

    Thanks and looking forward towards a quick response!

  • Updated the Roundup with the following change(s):

    • How To: Only Have 1 Process While Running NW.js (NW.js V0.18.6+)
    • Added some minor info about the "package.json" files
    • The images used inside the post are now heavily compressed and should load faster

    Thanks for your suggestions, keep'em coming!

  • Great interview, thanks for that grandbrinus and Ashley!

    I really wish for more interviews or podcasts (#bringbackpodcasts) like this.

    Besides from the devblogs, I think that something like this is a great way to answer FAQs from the community.