The more i look at this, the more i get a Darius feel to it. So when do we get to demo ?

yep very much a darius thing

demo up - Lolz Invaders

hey no fair you said you wanted per object .....

anyway yea , better to use layers like mekonbekon has done

I tried out the per object theory in my in-work shmup just to see , the buildings you see are using the per object parallax on a single layer

so it works but not its not very performant. as you are kind of trying to do stuff the gpu should be doing, interesting though.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6AQ9znz3zwxNnFwRllkaGJPQTA

Thing about never having made games before is you spend alot of time just doing things wrong so you can figure out how to do them right.

I took a picture off deviant art and cut it up to try to re-create it with construct but in moving parallax

The buildings are generated randomly

Think of it as an eye and engine test that failed on both accounts.

A good lesson in how NOT to make parallax background for a shmup.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6AQ9znz3zwxNnFwRllkaGJPQTA

facecrime

you set a global variable " screen distance from camera" [Bz]

(this represents your eye distance to the projection screen (you game window) )

and every 3d object has as "distance from camera" instance variable [Az]

then the scale / position of any 3D object is directly related to the "screen distance from camera" variable divided by the "distance from camera" instance variable

eg scaled size = original size * Bz/Az

and x or y position from 0 is original x or y * Bz/Az

its quite simple if you keep every thing in the 2 d plane with no rotation

here is an old vid where I had it in action

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6AQ9znz3zwxdkRZdWtoQ1psa0E/view?usp=drivesdk

it is explained better on wiki link below, ignore all the big matrix maths (this is all including rotation) and just go to the last picture at the bottom of the page. (which we can use in 2 d games for simple pan and zoom)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection

just my opinion but I don't think the Scirra / construct forum is the right forum for getting general feedback or promoting a new game.

You should really post on a forum dedicated to your type of game. Then you will get some real subjective opinions from people who like and play those type of games.

But here it is mostly creators, with wildly differing ideas and standards. They will be looking very objectively at specific technical aspects or the quality of the artwork etc

for example if you ask

"hey guys , Im doing my control like this, can you try it out, how does it feel, is there a better way to do it?"

you will probably get a lot of technical feedback

but if you ask

"hey guys, do you like my game?"

then you probably wont get much feedback.

Sounds like a good idea,

but I think Ashley will more likely dedicate time to the runtime engine rewrite once C3 out of beta, which will likely solve some of these issues anyway.

On the same subject.... something that has been bothering me.

why do we get janks even if our games are frame rate independent ???

is it because the code can only ever use the previous dt in the current loop? so a single spike dt throws everything off. i.e. you need a more constant framerate for framerate independence to work smoothly ?

been messing with an invisible dual analogue touch system for a few months

have had loads of issues but now ( i think, fingers crossed ) its working quite robustly with fast accurate control possible of the ship. it is really nice with the surface pro 4.

makes the game very different to playing with the joypad

still wrestling with backgrounds, im trying to get a system that allows me to specify say 9 or more tiles of any size and then lay them down semi randomly and moving at a speed based on a distance from camera variable. hitting lots of snags, its a bit more complex a problem than I expected.

game is running in C3 BTW in this vid, yeaay

and you can see the snappiness of the dual analogue touch

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6AQ9znz3zwxOGlxejVKNXdXNkU/view?usp=sharing

Hi ASHLEY. My game is framerate independent and yes in chrome for the most part I am seeing 16ms with impressive performance from the construct engine. but those sporadic 30ms spikes always go hand in hand with a jank.

— Of course , but sharing implies the creator's proven consent in some , preferably legally binding, form. Anything else is stealing.

Employing people to trawl the net ripping games for your site is not exactly getting creator consent.

Assuming the games are not "my first game" or shovelware or fanmade ip infringements then I'm sure the creator's will be interested in some type of deal. This would encourage creators to make better content allowing you to host better games , maybe even some exclusive quality content etc then the world becomes a better place for everyone.....

Sorry I didn't mean to fire up the jank thing again.

jank is a million times better than it was last year as far as I can see to the point that it is almost a non issue. ( Based on my limited number of admittedly mostly modern devices).

Also on further research it seems maybe edge is not following proper protocol with its varying un vsynced dt. Where as chrome is.

I was just wondering if there was a something about the chrome 30ms spikes correlation with construct game engine jank that might highlight some chrome or construct issue that would banish jank forever.

Ashley just tweeted this, this should help us all.

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/ ... ne-update/

I don't know if html5 can make full use of 6 cores, but the cores are going from shared to being dedicated to the game, so hopefully our games will run faster. And WebGL and many/large textures should benefit from the full GPU access and RAM increase to 5GB.

Is the Fall Creators Update for Xbox One supposed to come out mid-October like for PC?

that is sweet news indeed,

the lambo is back on the table......

with regard to jank

https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=195994