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  • Thanks newt

    After I posted this, Construct posted an error message telling me that I ran out of storage space, and then chrome crashed. I have over 2tb of hard drive space, so I had no idea what it was talking about.

    For some reason, when I run off a minified project I get better results... but for all I know that's just my imagination.

  • Anyone else experiencing this?

    I exported my game using minify. It took seconds.

    I updated Construct 3 to the latest version.

    Now when I export the game I see this minifying script bar going back and forth... and it's been going on for over 3 minutes. After these 3 minutes, it will suddenly complete.

    Why has it increased the time it's taken? From seconds to minutes. My project hasn't changed at all.

    Anyone else experiencing this?

  • I updated Windows, and now Construct 3 Previews don't open up in a new program anymore.

    It used to create its own program at the bottom in my taskbar, but now it opens up another Chrome Browser, even though I have it set up as a Pop Up Window.

    This happen to anyone else after the latest Windows 10 update?

  • Seems odd that this wasn't an issue with Paster in Construct 2. It was able to be rotated, scaled, flipped... anything, and kept on going.

    I'll just have it spawn sprites that slowly fade away over time. Very disappointing.

  • According to https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/drawing-canvas if I change the size of my drawing canvas, the next time I paste or draw something onto it, it will clear everything else away.

    Personally I have absolutely no idea why this would be a default behaviour, and it's now leading toward a second game that C3 can't achieve that C2 could do with ease using the Paster plugin (which in my opinion is significantly more superior).

    In any case, does anyone know a way around this? I have it set up so if someone is shot, it will spawn blood, then paste that blood onto the canvas so it's not using hundreds of sprites. However, every time the canvas zooms in, all the blood vanishes.

    The manual suggests that I can "if you clear and re-render the canvas in Every tick"... but it doesn't actually say how. There is no "re-render canvas" action, so I'm sat here scratching my head... yet again.

    I originally thought this was a bug, and reported it as such, but nope... apparently it's by design. Again, I have literally no idea why this would be preferable than... you know, it NOT deleting everything you've created onto the canvas. In fact, I can't think of a single example as to why it would be beneficial to delete everything.

    So yeah, is there a work around, or is it a useless plugin for this and I'm better off just spawning hundreds of blood sprites?

  • That's pretty much what mine does. It's open to everyone, not just my stream. I've had a few people from here make contact with me asking to try it out :)

  • random (360) for x is most likely different than random(360) for y

    They need to be the same angle even if its a random one.

    Yup, just figured this out from a post of yours from 2 years ago! Thanks for the reply, good to see you again!

  • I keep reading it over and over, and the two looks exactly the same. What makes J1.X different to center.x? Or does making random(360) a variable make a difference?

    I've been trying to figure out how to created a random spawn IN a circle, and this is the closest I've gotten, and I still can't figure it out.

  • I would try urlencode first - it converts commas, &, ?, and all the other symbols to codes that cause trouble in URLs. then urldecode converts them back.

    This has worked perfectly AllanR

    I'm tempted to try the encryption at some point as well, but I'll keep it in my back pocket for a while!

    Thank you so much for your help!

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  • Have you tried setting the "Content-Type" header to "application/json" before making the request?

    If you are not doing that, then it must be trying to send as plain text, and then you need to escape certain special characters. But I am just vaguely recalling all of this, so it might not be accurate.

    It seems to have a problem submitting commas. It posts the word just after the comma, then stops. I'll try the ecryption approach. Kinda makes sense for stored data to be encrypted anyway. Hopefully Construct gets an official plugin soon.

    have you tried "urlencode" before sending the text? you will then need to urldecode in php on the other end.

    I have not. I will do that if the encryption plugin fails :D

  • No, but I will try that asap and then get back to you!

  • Hey DiegoM

    As an example, it's basically a series of JSON codes embedded into a single JSON.

    {"c2dictionary":true,"data":{"MiniWidth":480,"MiniHeight":280,"MiniX":1440,"MiniY":800,"ModData":"{\"c2dictionary\":true,\"data\":{\"and4d\":0,\"challacc\":0}}","GiveawayData":"{\"c2dictionary\":true,\"data\":{\"MaxEntries\":100,\"Word\":\"! \"}}","CounterData":"{\"c2array\":true,\"size\":[0,2,1],\"data\":[]}","StoreData":"{\"c2array\":true!comma!\"size\":[1!comma!3!comma!1]!comma!\"data\":[[[\"Scribble \"]!comma![\"ScribblePlus\"]!comma![\"50\"]]]}"}}

    This is then uploaded via AJAX, calling a php file which stores it into a database.

    If any section of the data includes a comma, it breaks the json (which makes sense), yet if I use certain symbols it breaks the upload, and it never reaches the database.

    I'm currently in the process of testing an encryption plugin, but I always hate using non-official plugins in Construct 3.

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