Toby R's Forum Posts

  • It's because you have a lot of objects directly under "Object types". If you organize them, or at least put them all in a subdirectory of "Object types" the lag will dissapear.

  • First of all, just if you didn't know here's the quote from the officiall announcement:

    [quote:7ckbbmim]IMPORTANT: As of March 14, 2017, the Intel XDK cloud-based build servers have been deprecated and will be retired at the end of June, 2017. Until then, expect no further upgrades and limited support for the Intel XDK cloud-based build system

    So you may want to move to some other wrapper.

    And in regards of your problem this may help

  • What plugin do you use?

    What library do you use?

    Does the test AD unit work for you (for interstitial: ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/1033173712)?

    Also still the capx would be valuable to say anything.

  • Can you share a Screenshot of the all plugin Conditions / Actions, please ?

    Hi yojona, It is attached as a screenshot in store, but let me put it here as well

  • I've just uploaded version 1.1. The previous version was expecting a string as a param for expressions. It worked well with numeric variables but could bring problems with various other attempts like using other expression (that returns int) as a param.

    Even though it's a super small fix I couldn't get it working (backward compatible) by setting the old expressions as deprecated for some reason so I had to make it as non-fully-backward compatible (still the link to the old version is available).

    If you used this plugin in your project and provided a string as a parameter for expression, then you will have to remove that line from C2, update the plugin, restart C2 and add it again.

    If you haven't used a string earlier then you can simply update the plugin. Sorry for this issue, I just missed this detail somehow.

  • youtu.be/-RLvC0_0T8s

    very early stages of my game.

    Amazing art style, I love it, good job!

  • What is Ultimate Ads plugin?

    It's a plugin which has it all and works everywhere. It's a complete AdMob ads plugin (banner, interstitial, rewarded video) which works with Cocoon, PhoneGap and Cordova CLI both for C2 and C3 for Android and iOS.

    Implementing ads was never that easy! For more installation details please see the store item FAQ.

    Features

    • Compatible with C2,
    • Works with PhoneGap, Cocoon and Cordova CLI,
    • Works with WebView, WebView+, Crosswalk and Canvas+ ,
    • Allows code minification on export (even with Cocoon!)
    • Built-in Test mode as a plugin property (no need to set up AdMob for tests/development process),
    • Does not trigger JS error on PC preview

    Tutorials

    Also: Generating the Xcode project on the Mac using Cordova CLI

    Legacy

    This plugin is a result of combining Cocoon Rewarded Video plugin + Cocoon Ads Extra plugin on users request + additional modifications and ACEs.

    Everybody who purchased one of my ads plugins in the past receives Ultimate Ads plugin as an update to their purchase for free.

    The combined price of Cocoon Rewarded Video plugin + Cocoon Ads Extra plugin was $19.98.

    Ultimate Ads has all they had + much more and the price is reduced to $14.99 for a limited time.

    Warranty

    I'm a full-time programmer, in case of encountering any issues, please send me an email, I'll fix it ASAP.

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  • Scirra Arcade, Google Play, Steam, ... they all have leaderboard features built-in. It depends what is your target platform. If you want a custom (independend) leaderboard then as swad said you need to store it on your server so you can use AJAX C2 plugin to communicate with PHP, and you will have to make a PHP script that will handle requests and storing/fetching data to/from the database (MySQL is the most common choice).

  • You definietely should not give up on this as this is a trivial issue for sure.

    This error pops up whenever you try to execute an action of Cocoon plugin (not the C2 plugin but the Atomic one on Ludei side). So for instance the below example shows how you avoid this error popup to be able to work on localhost.

    This error should not pop up after you make an APK with Cocoon if you install the right plugin in Cocoon admin panel.

    So I am pretty sure it's the issue with your setup. If you keep on having issues I strongly recommend to buy Quick Starter - Ebook by — It's very good ebook that explains everything Cocoon related in details step by step and it costs just few bucks.

  • In theory the script loading time is shorter with minified JS as the file is simply smaller but I said "in theory" because it's not noticable at all. In regards of performance there is no difference.

  • Have you deleted "config.xml" file after you exported to Cordova? It overrides the Cocoon.io config setup (so also removes the AdMob Cocoon plugin inclusion).

  • From what I understand you want to make a gateway that allows the frontend to control the database. By default fronted (JS) can't directly connect/control the database and there's a reason for that - vulnerability.

    The MySQL user that handles all the functions you mention will need to have all or nearly all privilages (super user). Super user on the frontend is highly dangerous.

    What ORM library do you plan to use? How do you plan to secure everything? Are you aware of MySQL Injection methods?

    Sending email and other features are ok but controlling database on the level of creating/removing ones is kind of madness I would say (unless it's for dedicated control panel which then requires a solid authentication for each action).

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  • And about the audio, yeah i eventually found that, they have to update the manual! <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy">

    Thanks for the plugin link!

    Please note that you should use this plugin only if unloading by tag is crucial for your project as all the other unloading actions were ported to the official plugin so it's better to use the official one.

    I meant this: https://www.scirra.com/blog/83/optimisa ... -your-time

    Ah this one. Yeah well I must say that this article was always controversial to me, but we have to note that it has been written 5 years ago so the GPUs (especially on mobiles) were not that good/useful for HTML5 games. I mean WebGL wasn't supported that widely and well as these days. So the article says that most common performance issues are related to the rendering part. Fair enough as for 5 years back.

    But CPU usage is also very important and overusing loops etc. will just hurt the CPU, not the GPU. I saw tons of time people abusing everytick condition which also hits the CPU a lot. Well it's really a wide topic and there are tons of things to take care/ways to optimize the code. You can kill the app performance on CPU and GPU level easily, that's the truth.

    Anyway my statement is that as a C2 developer (and actually any developer including game engines, web dev and anything you code) you should take care about optimizing your code. But a very important note here is that even though optimization is important, the code architecture and readability is even more important. So the golden goal is to find the balance.

  • Yet in Scirra's case all they have is a blog post that says 'dont worry about code optimization'

    Can you please link to this post please?

    Shouldn't users be able to unload stuff as needed?

    Unloading sounds is possible starting from r242.

    I'm not sure why Ashley did not implement the "Unload by tag" action, but if you really need this one then you can also use my Experimental Audio plugin.

  • Timer is a common feature especially in casual games. I use it a lot as well so I decided to make a plugin to make timer display more comfortable.

    TR_ClockParser simply converts number of seconds to clock-string. There are few expressions to use.

    Download:

    [C2 plugin]

    Plugin icon by totoe - thanks!

    TR_ClockParser.Minimal(seconds) - Return the smallest possible clock string.

    Examples:

    TR_ClockParser.Minimal(30) -> "30"

    TR_ClockParser.Minimal(90) -> "01:30",

    TR_ClockParser.Minimal(4830) -> "01:20:30"

    TR_ClockParser.MMSS(seconds) - Return the "MM:SS" clock string.

    Examples:

    TR_ClockParser.MMSS(30) -> "00:30"

    TR_ClockParser.MMSS(90) -> "01:30"

    TR_ClockParser.MMSS(4830) -> "80:30"

    TR_ClockParser.HHMMSS(seconds) - Return the "HH:MM:SS" clock string.

    Examples:

    TR_ClockParser.HHMMSS(30) -> "00:00:30"

    TR_ClockParser.HHMMSS(90) -> "00:01:30"

    TR_ClockParser.HHMMSS(4830) -> "01:20:30"

    TR_ClockParser.ToSeconds(timeString) - Converts the specified clock string to seconds.

    Examples:

    TR_ClockParser.ToSeconds("01:03:30" ) -> 3810

    TR_ClockParser.ToSeconds("15:30") -> 930

    TR_ClockParser.ToSeconds("30") -> 30