Yea , the construct arrays are 3D, you cant have 10,5,0 , it will have no dimension then.

needs to be a 10,5,1

anyway forget about what i said above using the converters i tried a few ways a couldn't do it.

im sure you can do it but its probably a bit complicated for the likes of us

why cant you drop all your values in a json array in construct 3 wouldn't that be easier ?

in the project tree

under objects

add ajax object (need this to load arrray later)

add array object (this allows you to use arrays in the game)

then at the bottom under files add an "array" file

this adds an array json to your project but think of this as a separate file to your game that you have to load into the array later.

if you click on the file you can see it as a spreadsheet

then you can put all your data into this array , you can even take advantage of the 3d aspect

then you will have to load this json into an in game array at runtime

on start of layout

ajax request the json array

the on ajax completed load the json array into the game array

then the game can use it

sorry the wife is shouting up the stairs at me we are supposed to be going out now better go or there'llbe trouble..

ive spent a lot of time in germany and france and they do indeed use these qwertz and azerty keyboards and they think it is weird that we use qwerty. so yea it is a good idea to consider them if you want to sell in those markets.

Hey, really awesome, ive been doing this in events since the beginning of my game

eg old video not really representative of my current game drive.google.com/open

but it requires a "for each" for everything on the screen to be scaled and then z sorted every tick

which takes like 40% cpu on i5 and pretty much rules out mobile

im assuming i should be able to transfer the z coordinates in my game into this pretty easily and, Ashley maybe get some significant performance increase?

I would say that you have to to convert the xls or csv or whatever into JSON array format then import the JSON.

haven't done it myself but looks like there are loads of resources out there to do it.

Maybe

convertcsv.com/csv-to-json.htm

Mayabe

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/export-sheet-data/bfdcopkbamihhchdnjghdknibmcnfplk

Maybe

blog.pamelafox.org/2013/06/exporting-google-spreadsheet-as-json.html

Yea there are few dodgy things going on there and I cant get my head around what happens if you use load and save like that. You do realize it is saving and loading the whole game state when you do that not just the level?

Been thinking about this also. I think ultimately down the line I will add some keybinding but its low priority to getting the game finished.

My thinking is , long as you consider the differences between QWERTY and QWERTZ and AZERTY you have most of the western nations covered. Also I think places like Japan / Korea / China / Russia essentially use a QWERTY binding with a different keyface (dont quote me on that though).

Also dont forget us lefties, I have lost count of the number of games Ive had to play cross handed cos devs forgot us.

I was thinking it could all be solved by having the movement controls in the middle of the keyboard where much dosent change between layouts. (like maybe GHJ and space) and have the shooting jumping etc to both left and right eg cntl/alt/shift right shift arrows left. something like that anyway.

ive just checked my gmail and there is like 50 requests for the original demo file.

apologies guys it got put into a private folder during a recent gdrive purge and reorganization ive put it back on share now so the link in the post (a few posts above) should work.

I think chrome has its own power saving features where it cuts frame rate when not too much is going on and maybe when the OS is in power saving mode. Basically I think you are asking to override that somehow.