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  • Thanks for the kind words

    (By the way, is there a variable for application path?)

    Have a look at AppPath.

    [quote:3raylbnu]When I last left Construct, you guys were just beginning to implement Python. Has it become the dominant way to write games for it now?

    Quite the opposite... Python is currently broken, and isn't working at all We're hoping to fix it in the next build. Once it's working again we're not going to leave either scripting or events behind; scripting is deliberately designed to work in tandem with events (eg. for processing complex expressions or intensive loops and algorithms that are difficult to express in events). In the meanwhile, we've still been developing the eventing engine, such as ELSE (and if/else if/else if chains), OR, advanced functions, subevents, for-each/for-each ordered/one-line loops and so on.

    I don't think anyone's managed to make a game entirely out of Python yet, it would be interesting to see how that works out. But Construct is definitely still centered around the event sheet editor.

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  • Can you post a .cap file with the problem?

  • I realised it's time to face reality with timedelta and start incorporating it into my work..

    *hears applause from ash*

    *applause*

    Seriously, framerate independency is the way to go. Not many people think it's a big deal, but it does make for a better game.

  • Do i need to make a seperate layer?

    Yes - the mask/erase effects cut a hole in the layer they are on. So you want to put them on their own layer, and 'force own texture' should be enabled on that layer.

  • Use & for string concatenation. + is for addition.

    Eg. "There are " & Balls.Count & " balls in play"

  • Well how about that, I banned Google

  • Nice engine, I love this effect Would definitely make for a creative game.

    Does this help simplify the math?

    Qarp(a, b, c, x)

    Quadratic interpolation. Returns lerp(lerp(a, b, x), lerp(b, c, x), x)

  • PUT THE TWO .INI FILES IN YOUR C DIRECTORY (C:\)

    Aaaagh! Don't do this, use the AppPath expression to load it from the same directory as the application! There's never any need to force people to put files in a fixed directory! (Sorry, pet peeve)

    [quote:3k6b3mud]to the devs: any idea if you'll support japanese (unicode?) characters in the future? i tried it from .ini files and from .html files and neither let me display japanese characters.

    Hmm, not sure if we can do it soon. It's a bit late really - we didn't start off with support for unicode, so it'd be a lot of work going through Construct's code changing it. Maybe for a version 2 type thing...

  • The Mask and Erase effects are definitely the way to go for this. You don't need the canvas object - it would actually be slower. Mask and Erase are very simple effects and don't require pixel shaders - they should still be very efficient. All you need to do is draw a circle on a sprite and give it one of the effects (one erases the transparent areas, one erases the solid areas). It even works with alpha blended sprites to erase smooth edges!

    A drop of 50fps is not always bad news - the difference between 1050fps and 1000fps is pretty much negligable, whereas 100fps to 50fps is significant. In other words, a difference of a fixed number of FPS is a fairly meaningless statement. 1 divided by the framerate is the time in seconds it takes to render each frame - you can use this to work out exactly how much extra time it takes to process an effect, per frame.

  • It's also difficult to determine the point of collision efficiently - the collision engine checks 64 pixels at a time for better performance, which also means it can only tell to within 64 pixels where a collision happened anyway. Having it any more accurate would be a lot slower, and as deadeye mentions, highly problematic anyway.

  • What's with that site? I can't find anywhere a description of what OpenPandora actually is, but I can deduce it from the tech specs and photos...

    Linux support is a frequently asked question, and the short answer is: in the distant future, maybe, or when we get more developers than three part-time volunteers.

  • The funny thing is, I bet Google already helps out loads of people with their problems...

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