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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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No - not mode 7 itself - it's a software rendering engine. Construct is entirely hardware accelerated, so it would make sense to do the same thing but in true 3D. However, we are concentrating on 2D features for up to Construct 1.0. Have you had a look at 3D Box?
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Your game is not framerate independent. In other words, when the framerate changes, the way the game behaves changes. This is not good! If a player was playing on a slow computer you don't want the game to change for them as well.

As Arcticus said, read about TimeDelta. If you say 'Always - subtract 1 from value', the value is subtracted once every tick, which is different speeds depending on the framerate.
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There is no need for a for-each. The event

+ Always

-> Add 'timedelta' to Sprite

adds timedelta to every sprite object. It runs about twice as fast too, since it does them all in one action instead of one at a time and repeating the action!

On the other hand, I'm quite pleased with how fast for-each actually is. It seems to have a fairly low overhead per iteration.
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Nice example! I wonder if I can come up with a blob...
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'ELSE' doesn't make sense after a 'For each' loop - 'For each' is actually logically false (because of how the engine works), so I think the else event will actually run like an 'always' event.

I think the best way to handle Z ordering is to come up with some combination value: if you loop by .Y + .Z ascending or something, it might be able to factor in both. I think you'll need to tweak that expression a fair bit to get it right though...
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Physics should still respond to time scaling - I remember testing it - it should change speed appropriately. But you're right, it would be useful to have velocities working in pixels per second, but the maths behind it is a bit tricky (I'm not sure how to represent forces in terms of pixels...).

You can upload files to the upload forum - us admins have omnipotent attachment powers
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Addition is hardly an expensive CPU operation... I wouldn't worry about that! Storing the creation time is another perfectly good way of doing it - whichever is easiest, really.
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Can you upload the .cap that crashes to the tracker? That way we can fix the crash instead of trying to avoid it...
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- Ashley Construct Team Founder
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Yes, that would be useful, thanks.
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I can't change the wiki permissions right now - I can't seem to log in to the FTP. As soon as I can, I'll have it sorted out :-\</p>
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Bleh, this is a bug from a few builds ago... guess it needs a re-fix.
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Are you SURE the layers and Z orders are right? Does it work if you put the lasers on the top layer and use Always - send to front as well? Do you have any events affecting the Z order of the tiled backgrounds?