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  • I think we all assume there will be mesh deformation with bones using Timelines as the minimum for what would be considered full featured.

    Of course that's for both products.

    I think aside from QOL improvements these would be the most sensible additions. As both Construct products would benefit from this greatly imho.

  • Construct can technically handle an unlimited amount of controllers.

    But there might be a limitation by the Operating System.

  • 1. Duzen oder siezen

    There is a mix of the informal "du" and formal "sie" in the translations.

    There should be a decision made for either or, possibly even by Scirra as this changes tone and perception of the software.

    (Windows and Google uses "sie" while Twitter uses "du" for example)

    "Du" allows a more direct translation and sounds more approachable. Even alot of the Professors at my Uni are using the "du" now and I think overall usage of "sie" is going down.

    But some, especially older people might find it disrespectful.

    2.Consistency in the translation of gravity

    Sometimes "Gravitation", "Gravitationskonstante" or "Schwerkraft" is used.

    I would advocate for "Gravitation".

    3. Consitency in the translation of rotation

    Sometimes "Drehung" or "Rotation" is used.

    I would advocate for "Rotation".

    4. Translation of Eases as "Lockerungen"

    I don't think this is a good translation and I would prefer to use the english terms: Eases, Ease-In and Ease-Out, as they are used by German animatiors as well afaik.

    5. Translation of Drag-and-Drop as "Ziehen und losslassen"

    I don't think this is a good translation and I would prefer to use the english terms: Drag-and-Drop, as they are commonly used in German as well.

    6.Translation of Next, particualrly in cases of a buttons.

    Sometimes "Nächste" or "Nächstes" is used, should be unified imo.

  • Also statements like these are not a good look imho. Sorry for being so harsh but this reads to me as either delusion or ignorance to other animation software. (or maybe just empty marketing talk)

    Edit: The welcome dialog message has been changed, thank you!

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  • Here I am listing the missing features that I expect from a paid animation focused software (not exhaustive, just what came to mind):

    1. Easier animating, preview and scrubbing of the camera movement (including 3d camera). This is important, especially if you would want to export to video. Currently you would need to go into preview mode to see this, which is a terrible workflow assuming you have complex camera movement and need objects to move in and out of the frame.
    2. Scrubbing in edit mode should show the current animation state by default. (like if ctrl is held). This is the case in any animation software that I have used iirc Edit: this has been adjusted.
    3. Export to image sequence and export with transparency in cases the animation is supposed to be used or composited in another software. Edit: Image sequence Export has been added
    4. Animate mesh deformation in the Timeline. (also next point)
    5. Animating large amount of mesh points would need some sort of mesh selection tool/mesh weights. (also next point)
    6. Bones that objects can be attached to and meshes that can be weight painted. (also next point)
    7. Inverse kinematics and forward kinematics for bones.
    8. frame by frame animation and timeline merged, or better cross integration for hybrid workflows (also next point)
    9. Onionskinning in the timeline for hybrid sprite and tween animations. Or at least a simple way of setting frames and animations in the timeline.
    10. The scrub bar should not be hidden behind the start and end line. (animation software often add a handle at the top of the bar) has been added
    11. Recording mode (or changes to edit mode) any change should automatically create a keyframe at the current scrub position.
    12. Dragging in the timeline should do a rectangle selection of keyframes. has been added
    13. Animating layer properties and effects in the timeline (if not possible already, I'm not sure).
    14. Alot of the useful timeline keyboard shortcuts require ctrl to be pressed, which makes them harder to execute. For a animation focused software where you would use them x times per minute that is bad ux. I understand why it is that way, as the edtior also uses the shortcuts without the ctrl.
    15. Button and shortcut for play from beginning. has been sort of added
    16. Better integration from a ux/ui pov of the ease editor into timelines.
    17. Particles etc. should automatically preview when playing a timeline animation with them.
    18. The current image editor seems to be lacking for an animation software now.
    19. Vector drawing tools and animation in timelines.

    If you want to look at some competition check out https://rive.app/ which is basically a free, aside from live collaboration, animation software targeting a similar niche.

  • nice, glad it's what you were looking for.

    :D I saw a lot of dublicate code and thought it's time for a function ;)

  • The tween behavior has the action tween value.

    So create a manager object with the tween behavior(or similar) and use:

    tween value from globalVariable to targetValue with "tag"

    Then use:

    while tween "tag" is running set globalVariable to managerObject.tween.value("tag")

  • set health to clamp(Self.Health-20,0,Self.maxHealth)

    no need to do the additional clamping of width etc.

  • you can still observe stutter in any game at high-ish fps if the frame times vary alot.

  • Btw I updated the game with some band-aid fixes.

  • alextro

    Thank you for the feedback!

    I'll add some additional info to the menu that you can use any button.

    I see, I'll try to work on the sound effects, I had a bit of a problem that depending on the song and part of the song the sfx would not be audible and on quite parts too loud, so I would probably need to add a dynamic system that checks the audio peaking average around the last few seconds and adjusts the sound based on that.

    or just make it really low, but I think for game feel reason the hit sfx should be audible somewhat even during the drops.

    For the difficulty I think this is more so the problem that I didn't have the time to create more and easier beatmaps. Though I'll up the starting hearts and also change the lose sfx to be less mocking

    KryptoPixel thank you, I'll work on that!

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