Hi, I have recently run into this issue - up until now I have not been using third party plugins but I found a useful one for my project so installed and used it. I am working across multiple devices and browsers - sometimes using the app and sometimes using browser to build the game. Now when I open my project it tells me there is a dependency on a plugin and that it's not installed. If I install the plugin and restart construct I get the same error, it just doesn't remember that the plugin is installed. Oddly enough it seems to work in firefox, but in Chrome or the app I can't even open my project. It should be noted that it always asks me to log in as well it never retains my login info. Any tips on what could be causing this? I've installed this plugin about 10 times now and it's driving me mad. Thanks for any assistance or ideas.

Yes, it is very frustrating indeed. I realise this would be a low priority for C3 dev at this stage, but it just seems like poor design, completely locking you out of a project because a third party plugin is missing. I can't think of any other creative software that does this. They will always load the main project, albeit without the bits that are missing. Maybe there is a good reason, but due to how many of these plugins were stored years ago, trawling the forums for anything just results in a bunch of dead dropbox links.

I had a quick look at some old posts and it appears it's not possible.

I realise that this is a weird request because normally you would want either one or the other, but in the interests of experimentation and customisation I want the user to have the option to switch between nearest neighbour and trilinear. Because my game has a lo-fi glitch aesthetic it makes a lot of sense for me to be able to switch between the modes on the fly. Is there a method to do this, or a technical reason why that option doesn't appear to be available as an event?

Thanks!

Thanks for the response, I was worried that might be the case. Not the end of the world, just wanted to see if there was a super simple workaround.

I am using the standard noise FX applied to a layout and I have a menu that when activated sets the timescale of the game to 0 and then allows various animations to run afterward so that the menu can look nice. The noise FX stops as expected when the timescale is set to 0, but I would like to keep it running because it will look much nicer. Is there a way to "restart it" somehow, or control it via events? At the moment it just freezes the noise overlay on screen, which doesn't look nice.

Games like Ori don't actually have massive backgrounds. They just cleverly layer things. If you look closely, you will notice that it's the same stuff used over and over again, but maybe rotated/scaled differently. They use a lot of little tricks to make it seem fresh. You're thinking like a traditional artist, in that a background is a large static object. You need to think like a game designer in that a background can be made up from many smaller objects that can be repeated/tweaked. This is better for both memory, and allows you more flexibility in making your background more dynamic.

I have some old C2 projects that I want to reuse a bunch of actions from. As far as I can tell there appears to be no way to copy and paste actions between Construct 2 and 3, or am I missing something? I tried to open up my C2 project in C3, but it won't allow me to because of some old plugins that were used. Is there some way to bypass that and just proceed so that I can get to the event sheets? Thanks. I understand that the program won't run properly without those plugins but it seems a bit extreme to lock me out of the project completely as there is a whole host of other useful things I can be getting from it.

Thanks for the suggestions. Magicam looks great, but a bit worried about using a behaviour that no longer seems to be supported - and is labelled as alpha. It looks solid though - is it pretty reliable? I remember it being around for Construct Classic.

I ended up ditching the scrollto method used in the tutorial I linked. Put my lookahead camera back in and locked it to half a screen width away from the ends of each zone the player is overlapping - so it lerps a bit in front of the player if they are more than 320 pixels over from the left hand side and less than 320 pixels in from the right and it's working an absolute treat!

Hi all, I'm thinking of switching my camera from a free roaming camera with scrollto behaviour to zone based - I really like how the zone based camera works in this tutorial (which also has .capx example):

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/747/zone-based-camera-movement

Because I was using a free roaming camera before I was able to attach a scrollto behaviour to it and use the 'shake' setting to call screenshakes - but this won't work if I use the zone based method as the camera is locked based on player position. If I add another object with scrollto behaviour on it, so that I can call the shake, the focus then shifts to that object, which I don't want. I need a way to be able to call a nice looking screenshake, but also be able to keep the camera pretty much locked to the zone I'm in.

The only way I can think to do it is to put the zone based camera movement into a group and temporarily disable it when I call a manual screenshake - move the scrollx and scrolly parameters around a bit - before re-enabling the zone based camera and it will lock back in - but I'm having trouble getting a nice screenshake this way, the inbuilt one on the scrollto behaviour looks much better.

I've got unbounded scrolling on, but I don't seem to be getting very far. Has anyone tackled anything similar to this?

Thanks for any suggestions :)

How are you changing the colours at the moment, are you using the "tint" effect or something different?

Thanks for the excellent suggestions. Ultimately I would like them to be saved between sessions so I will look into how to do it with local storage. The other methods are really clever too though and will probably come in handy at some point - thanks for the suggestions!