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  • The forums went down twice today, I contacted our host and it seems the server reset twice or something. Harrumph. Hopefully everything will be OK now...

  • The Plugin SDK has been updated to reflect changes in the VRuntime, VEditTime interfaces and the Common ACE library.

    Download the Plugin SDK 0.98.5

    The CVS now reflects the latest plugin SDK as well.

  • 1: You can try setting the sprite's collisions mode to 'Bounding box' instead of 'Per pixel'.

    2: No, there's no built in way to do this. What are you trying to achieve?

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  • The new Prof-UIS build included some UI bug fixes which is just a good idea to have, really. It's also got some new back-end features, like a themed messagebox class, which we might be able to take advantage of in future.

  • I think we wanted an option for the old style but it didn't make this build... we'll try and add it to the next build or two.

  • Construct 0.98.5 released

    Basically a hotfix for some things that broke (*glances at David* ) in 0.98.4, and one or two things I'd done in between. Since 0.98.4 did not make the front page or send update notifications, its changelog is also attached below.

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    New in 0.98.5

    General

    • [ADD] System object: 'On device reset' trigger (objects like Minimap lose their textures on device reset; you might need this to redraw terrain and set up other objects)
    • [FIX] Most recently used (MRU) list no longer shows duplicates
    • [CHANGE] Opening an application also adds it to the MRU list
    • [CHANGE] MRU now lists 10 items and shows full paths

    - [CHANGE] Insert icon replaced by Deadeye's icon. Thanks deadeye!

    Hotfixes

    • [FIX] Platform movement fixes relating to platform and conditions such as 'is moving' were broken
    • [ADD] Bone movement - moving mouse over a handle makes it go blue
    • [ADD] Bone movement - action 'Force bone reposition', which can be used if you need the bones to instantly reposition themselves (eg. you're manually positioning something to the co-ordinates of a limb and your having synchronization problems)

    Changelog from 0.98.4

    Behaviors

    • [ADD] Drag & Drop: ability to limit dragging to one axis
    • [ADD] RTS: Get destination X/Y
    • [ADD] Platform: can disable down-falls-off-platform, new conditions for testing wall left/right/above
    • [FIX] Ball movement: 'Set angle' had no effect when 'Rotate object' enabled
    • [FIX] RTS movement: issuing a move action on Start of Layout crashed
    • [FIX] Platform: objects with the 'platform' attribute are no longer solid sideways

    Event sheet editor

    • [ADD] Draws lines to show indentation of subevents
    • [FIX] Crash using 'go to' when no include had been made
    • [FIX] Adding events by the ribbon now insert at the right place
    • [FIX] Adding stuff from the ribbon now unselects the previous selection and selects the new stuff
    • [FIX] Adding conditions by the ribbon and by the right click inserts at the right place
    • [FIX] Can no longer add sub events in stupid places like comments and includes (ribbon, right mouse popup, drag drop, hover buttons covered)
    • [FIX] Deleting events or groups without deleting their children will no longer cause the children to reverse. Also, it will make the animation gap that the events move smaller so the transistion wont mess up
    • [FIX] Crash running a project with a blank event sheet include

    General

    • [ADD] New 'No serialize' attribute. Objects with this attribute will not be saved or loaded at runtime by the save/load/quicksave/quickload actions. Useful for objects like XAudio2 playing music etc (You need to add this attribute manually in old .caps)
    • [ADD] 'No to all' when resource prompts occur, if they are missing
    • [ADD] Some (long overdue) window settings: minimize box, maximize box, caption, resizable.
    • [FIX] Reordering layouts now sets the changed status of applications to true
    • [FIX] Editing/adding/deleting any resource now sets the application status to changed
    • [FIX] Crash selecting 'go to url' in insert object dialog
    • [FIX] Crash resizing selections in the Picture editor
    • [CHANGE] Double clicking in the object bar opens the picture editor now
    • [CHANGE] Updated to new Prof-UIS 2.84
    • [CHANGE] Update checker now runs in a thread, should stop all lockups at start
    • [CHANGE] The Directsound object no longer appears in the Insert Object dialog. You can still open old .caps using the object, though. Use XAudio2 instead of Directsound.

    Layout editor

    • [ADD] Holding enter while left clicking selects the object under the selected object (allowing you to get to those hard to select items!)
    • [ADD] While dragging, pressing enter will paste the object onto the layout making it easier to make large amounts of objects
    • [FIX] Crash with pasting clones
    • [CHANGE] Right click wont change the selection in layout editor if you mouse is over a selected object

    Plugins

    • [ADD] Timeline object: significantly upgraded, effectively version 2
    • [ADD] XAudio2: Limiter (on by default). The limiter dynamically adjusts the volume so sound does not distort if you are playing a large number of samples at once. This substantially improves audio quality in this situation.
    • [ADD] Layout object: transparent & resize-to-fit options, can scroll independently
    • [ADD] Sprite: 'is overlapping at offset' condition. Can be used instead of 'detector' sprites.
    • [ADD] Sprite: 'resume animation' action, which plays but does not go back to first frame
    • [FIX] XAudio2: possible crash in playing samples
    • [FIX] XAudio2: crash playing music from resource twice with two instances
    • [FIX] Tiled background: 'set image scale' did not display all parameters in event sheet editor
    • [FIX] Plasma object: is now timedelta-compliant
    • [FIX] Crash in Bone movement
    • [FIX] Minimap: invalid texture reference when device reset

    Runtime

    • [ADD] System object: cubic interpolation expression (cubic())
    • [FIX] Collisions: bounding-box tested against per-pixel objects was not working
    • [FIX] Debugger-reported event numbers are now always correct
    • [FIX] Problems with incomplete containers in layout editor again
    • [FIX] Weirdly rendered display if the layout was smaller than the window, and mouse co-ordinates sometimes wrong in that case.
    • [FIX] 'Pick a random object' didn't work correctly with families
    • [CHANGE] Animations are now allowed to skip frames if they are faster than the framerate
    • [CHANGE] Passing a family to a create/spawn action now picks a random type in that family and creates that
    • [CHANGE] Debugger can now also identify the event sheet a crash originated from if it happened in an action, condition or expression.
    • [CHANGE] Window automatically centers itself in the screen on startup.

  • OK, hotfix coming up soon... actually I think I'll just make it 0.98.5, I think a lot of people have already downloaded this one.

  • No, we'll definitely have an importer for old .cap files.

  • Batches are not particularly interesting to the end user, it's more for us developers to test how efficiently the game is being drawn.

    V-sync always draws the screen when the monitor is being refreshed to stop tearing. If it misses a V-sync because it's still drawing, it'll wait until the next monitor refresh. So if your game takes just over the time between VSyncs to draw, it'll dip to half the framerate, because frames are never rendered in time for the next VSync, only the one after.

    I guess your game is really running at 90-99fps. If your refresh rate is 100Hz, it never has a frame drawn in time for the next VSync, so it only manages to draw every other frame. In windowed mode, the VSync isn't quite so accurate anyway, so it tends to sometimes skip a frame or two a second even if the application isn't doing anything. This probably just exaggerates the problem if your FPS is just below VSync rate.

    If you go to 60Hz, it can comfortably get a frame rendered in time for every VSync, so you hit 60fps.

    I'd take a look at optimising your game. Whats your video hardware, by the way? If it's powerful, you've got to be doing some pretty heavy rendering to pull down the framerate that low!

  • Part of the problem is probably that Construct is using the very latest DirectX updates at the moment (eg. November 2008). As it seems WINE and other emulators have poor DirectX support off the bat, I doubt they're able to keep up with such updates.

  • You're using 0.98.3, update to 0.98.4, it's on the forum but isn't sending update notifications yet.

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