Grimmy's Recent Forum Activity

  • Please Mikal continue to work on this!! I beg you! This would be super awesome if it got to a stage where we could use it on mobile without performance issues.

  • Thanks, I just downloaded and tested everything and it seems to work flawlessly without the need to switch back to C2 runtime. I was putting off testing it until there was some kind of confirmation..I didn't realise that testing it would be so quick!

    No issues at all. Happy Days! :)

  • Try Construct 3

    Develop games in your browser. Powerful, performant & highly capable.

    Try Now Construct 3 users don't see these ads

  • How did I never find that? Great stuff. Thanks!!

  • Anyone Know the shortcut keys for:

    Preview Layout

    Preview Project

    Remote Preview

    Debug Layout

    ?

    Thanks

  • Can I bump this for answer. Anyone know? Cheers

  • I've been using Unity since day one and I'm currently on the fence as to which system to currently use between C3 and Unity in my next project. I used MMF2 fusion for my last project which was great, but suffers heavily in performance against the new C3 runtime.

    Unity can do everything, but it's big and clunky these days and I seem to spend more time compiling, upgrading the editor or trying to find stuff(data, assets, settings..) within the complex UI rather than doing any actual game development. When things break its a case of deleting library folders and waiting 30 minutes each time to reload everything..This really ruins the flow. I was running Unity 2019 yesterday and it crashed on me about 5 times during the day.

    C3 doesn't do any 3D (Big shame :() and has some small weaknesses against Unity 3D (no Spine support, fonts etc) but it seems super fast to develop and it runs super fast too, export sizes are something like 10-20 times smaller than Unity too.

    ALso My Unity test Project is around 1 Gig (once I've added all the plugins etc) whereas my C3 test project with practically the same results is a couple of meg. It never crashed on me.

    I only wish C3 did just a tiny bit of 3d. I'm still not sure if the C3 runtime fully supports skeletal animation though (Spriter/Spine)

  • Well, I've used it a couple of months back. You can't animate anything skeletal so the only way to animate a character for example seems to be to switch between models each frame. Of course most of the games made with it seem to be just abstract hyper casula so if balls and cubes is your thing then it seems great.

    Also, I literally ran it for just an hour or so and it crashed a lot. Maybe they've fixed some things since then.

  • Hi, does anyone know if the Spriter plugin actually supports the construct 3 runtime yet or do I still need to set the runtime to the old (slower) COnstruct 2 runtime still?

    Thanks

    Simon

  • Sure its here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0edvgvqqa8qwed/C3Menus.c3p?dl=0

    Click the bottom right button to call the popup. You will see the lag on the popup buttons.

    On e_menus event sheet (line 12) you can see that Im positioning the button text every frame at the same position as the button sprite (buttpon_generic)

  • Well I tried the sub folder re-arrangement idea but that had no effect for me. My objects still have the lag :(

    Unfortunately to pin each object based on offsets from the root object would be ridiculously time consuming just to get around this 'engine' bug, so really that's not an option.

  • So it's based on the order they are added to the project? In my project I added the button text (which is lagging) to the project way after I added the initial sprite (button base) so not sure this is correct. If however this is the case, is there a way to re-order how they were added without having to delete and reimport.

    Btw..surely this is quite a major c3 bug that should be fixed right?

  • Hi, when positioning an object at another object's position every frame (or pinning) everything is working great but if I want to pin that object to an already pinned object (double pin?) the second object will alway lag behind the movement which look bad.

    This is a real pain and it means (to get around this) that for UI elements I am force to illogically organize everything into just a two layered structure and position everything in code at relative offsets. Of course once you introduce different aspect ratios into the mix chaos ensues.

    If the pin behaviour just worked how it should everything would be SO much easier.

    Is there a fix on the horizon for this?

Grimmy's avatar

Grimmy

Member since 20 Nov, 2012

Twitter
Grimmy has 2 followers

Trophy Case

  • 12-Year Club
  • Forum Contributor Made 100 posts in the forums
  • Regular Visitor Visited Construct.net 7 days in a row
  • RTFM Read the fabulous manual
  • Great Comment One of your comments gets 3 upvotes
  • Email Verified

Progress

17/44
How to earn trophies