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  • I wonder if this will work when creating new objects then calling function in same event. Or, if that doesn't work, adding a wait 0 seconds before calling the function. When I'm home, I'll be playing around with this!

  • I wonder if drawing tools are on the cards at all. Like not "going into a sprite, draw, then place on layout", but drawing directly onto the layout, kinda like flash? Draw directly into layers or something, even if behind-the-scenes this gets converted into a sprite.

    I ask, as this is the one thing preventing a friend from trying Construct Animate, as they want to draw a background, then draw a character on top of the background so they get the scaling and perspective correct. But right now, you have to go into the sprite editor, which means you have to guess how it will look once placed onto the layout. Sure we can resize sprites, but they're raster images, so they won't look smooth if suddenly resized.

    You may have a point, but you post reads like a drunk person raging about Construct 3 templates. You seem passionate, but presenting it in a public forum post where you are swearing everywhere, it comes off as aggressive, and you are insulting the work from the devs (particularly the programmers) that created these templates rather than calmly explaining why you feel the templates are not good from an educational standpoint. Maybe edit your post to ease the tone of it, just so we can have a conversation and not get this post locked?

    I looked at the same ghost template, and I completely agree about the comments, it was kinda funny how little they explain. Some comments are like "initialise the car" then below it is a bunch of sin/cos math with seemingly random numbers picked for it - the comments don't explain roughly what they are doing, or why they chose specific values in their math.

    I guess where do you stop with comments? I'd expect detailed comments in beginner templates, but when it is an advanced template, perhaps it is more about advanced users taking a peek and changing a thing or two in order to learn, rather than reading comments to learn.

  • The best thing to do, is whilst the game is running, every second, update a variable to the current date, and make sure to save this so this can be loaded in future.

    Then, say 3 weeks pass and you open your game, you will have the old date from 3 weeks ago, and you can compare it to today's date, and with these two dates, you can figure out how many Sundays have occurred, and add this to a "number of Sundays" variable.

  • I'm only saying I trust Scirra, I wasn't trying to insult anyone. I'll be an unhappy customer if C3's development noticeably slows down due to attention to C3 Animate.

    If I could choose, I'd wish Scirra could focus full time on C3. I do hope Scirra expand as a company and get more staff on board sooner rather than later.

  • I guess it's possible for Scirra to focus on both products - I believe it was mentioned that they silently worked on C3 Animate for the past year (iirc), which is a bit odd now that I think about it because it took a year(?) to add video export? If hypothetically they focused more time on this video export to get it done in a few months, then would C3 development have slowed down during this time?

    Perhaps development will be a bit slower whenever a major feature is being focused on - Like if Scirra wanted to add drawing tools to C3 Animate, we might see less stuff getting implemented in C3 during this time. I know there's not just 1 programmer so maybe someone can still work on a major feature in C3 during this time, but there was a time where all staff were focused ONLY on C3.

    But! Scirra could afford more staff when they get even more cash flow from this new product for a new demograph. Maybe there will be teething issues, like with any new thing or any shift in workload, but I do trust they've thought this through.

  • Yeah sorry for rambling about the suggestions platform as it is offtopic - It's exciting to think about being able to influence the future of C3 a little bit, but like you say, it's been discussed over and over, with the same outcome usually.

    Whilst I do agree with the idea and it is surprising that the effect parameters weren't exposed everywhere from the beginning, I wonder if this is one of those cases where Scirra will think "Well, it can be worked around, therefore should we focus our limited resources on this?". Again, I totally agree with the suggestion, but, well, small team, limited resources. I know we all know that.

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  • Yeah I don't visit the suggestions platform often, infact I more often visit the bug github just to see what things are getting reported and the little technical discussions that sometimes happen - It can be quite interesting!

    On the suggestions platform, sorted by popular:

    In 5th place, with 34 votes, existed for a year, no Scirra response, and it's not exactly a complicated idea (add BBoxMid), yet very handy (Not that I expect Scirra to add it, but it has existed for a year, it is one of the top 5 most voted, and no response?)

    In 4th place, with 38 votes, 6 months old, this suggestion has been answered by Scirra back in February as "already implemented", yet it sits there high up on the list, not hidden, and the people that contributed to the 38 votes are not moving their votes elsewhere.

    In 3rd place, with 40 votes, 10 months old, and this is about image points on 3d objects - Scirra isn't convinced by it (which is fair enough), but no discussion has happened on the comments there from the community, noone else chimed in to say "here's a good example of why this would be a good suggestion", yet its 3rd place of all popular suggestions. Why aren't the people that voted for this writing a quick comment like "I would use this feature to create blahblah effect in 3D" or something?

    In 2nd place, 42 votes, a year old, no response from Scirra.

    1st place has 54 votes but this is marked as "in development" so this is cool.

    This makes me think even if I put effort into writing a detailed suggestion and getting many people to vote for it and made it to the top 5 most voted, it may still take a year or more to get a response, or maybe never get a response at all. I acknowledge Scirra is busy, small team, lots of work to do, but... Yeah I don't know.

  • I don't have much input, but I always use Chrome for C3, and I am not experiencing any issues you describe. I use regular Chrome, no extensions at all.

    You could try other chromium-based browsers, such as Edge or Brave? It's so strange how Firefox works just fine for you. Hmm...

  • If you could disable delta time on behaviours, and you design your game around 60fps, then 2 problems would occur:

    If the framerate goes below 60fps, then you will see the behaviours work in slow-motion.

    If the framerate goes above 60fps (e.g. Someone uses a monitor or phone that supports 120hz), then you will see the behaviours speed up really fast.

    There isn't much you can do to fix this, except by using delta time.

  • I have same issue with project folder. Sometimes it saves instantly, sometimes it takes about 15 seconds, on high end computer saving to an SSD.

    15 seconds adds up when you save often. My hand is constantly over CTRL+S, even after small changes, I save.

    I changed over to saving as a c3p file, and it seems to always take about 5 seconds to save, which I currently prefer as it is consistent.

    I'll get some project stats later such as image count and sizes, and will edit my post.

  • I would absolutely love to see a "max FPS" option for Construct. I find when making a rhythm game, my inputs feel noticeably more responsive when I disable vsync (even on a 240hz monitor), but currently without a max FPS cap, disabling vsync is only useful for benchmarking and making your computer's fans go wild and draining laptop battery.

    I also currently get choppy sprites and choppy Video playback when vsync is on, but I have not been able to reproduce this in a minimal project for a bug report, but if I disable vsync, the choppy issue is gone.

    GDevelop has a max FPS option, and games like Valve's Source engine games have a cl_maxfps variable iirc (usually defaulted to 300 on most Source games), so you can disable vsync, get the benefits of better input response, fans don't go wild, with the only downside being image tearing, which often isn't a big deal.

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