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  • Hi guys, help me to understand please?

    if i bought a "music pack" on the store, and its says permits royalty free usage for one single commercial project...And.. i did a free game for devices using just 1 of 5 soundtracks of the pack.

    1.-Can i use the rest on different projects?

    2.-A free game with ads it's a commercial project?

    3.-What if i use the music on youtube videos?

    those licenses mean the content u bought can be used 1 time per project, if u want to use the same content from the same bundle u bought u have to buy it again usually.

    however that doesn't apply to all songs if they are split apart. for example

    you making 2 different projects. u have 3 songs... u use 1 of them in 1 project and 1 in another. in order for the license to kick its re-buy status u have to put all 3 songs in one project. as long u don't reuse the same songs in other projects ur good to go with the main license.

    that would be the main logic of things, but the developer/publisher of the files that sold it to u might have a different idea on how stuff should work and how much money he wants to make so you are ought to contact him and ask him what is permitted or not.

    so basically short quick answer...

    1 yes legally speaking you can use the rest of the songs in any different projects as long u not reusing the same song that was already used in a prior project. / no, morally speaking talk with the seller if his ok with it and what he considers consumed license. if he says u have to buy it again just buy it, even if he sues and will lose the case cause not how things work, u will have ur time wasted in court, lawyer fees etc. not worth it.

    2 yes basically what commercial means is that every software that has the ability to gain money is commercial. No matter if you have advertisement plugins, in-app-payment systems or if it's a paid software in the first place.

    3 the license is per use on commercial project, doesn't matter if its a youtube video where u run ads a game or a movie that makes u 10 mil dollars on box office.

    Edited: on the chance u might be sued lets say... and the bundle is just 5$ or 20$ or whatever the price... id just re-buy it if the seller considers one time project use 1 song out of the N songs the bundle contains already used. is not even worth the pain and hustle. id just buy it one more time.

  • that is just 3 .... i was rushing the example and there was a glitch when value 4 was in place...

    but that was cause i used smaller or equal if u swap to <4 instead of =<3 or =<4-1 would work the same also.

    and thanks that is actually a old example r0j0hound shared a long long time ago around C2 forum. i liked how was made so i kept it in my examples also. saves a lot of trouble when comes to using lots of frames for a simple animation.

  • It's going to be a mobile app, and that's an excellent question. Honestly, I'm not sure yet. I think unfocused because a player might still have that app open but not be playing it, in which case the function still needs to run. But the function would have to work in both scenarios, unfocused and closed.

    How do I detect either of those?

    that's why i asked also, cause i never done it before, was thinking u already solved it, from my knowledge if is unfocused the app won't run any background events cause automatically pauses itself unless im mistaken.

    and if u use the mobile app service thing button to force close the app is again unfocused so it won't know is being closed... this is a tricky thing to do on mobile. unless u can detect the input of mobile that shows all apps running and then quickly tell the app to save progress when the user touched that input... but probably saving progress every 1 minute would do the trick. but then ul have a 1 minute gap glitch where people could just get fast energy by closing and reopening it again, before it saves.

    id have to test it out though.

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  • Some questions then:

    Is there a Good service like that, that is free, or with a small one time payment, where you can hide the "powered by"?

    On this page I have a full-screen procedurally generated background, that I can only make in construct, unless I want to learn a new language. Is this possible to include on these services?

    Cheers!

    wix is my best advice for the $ and as a never touched programming before person, has a subscription month but... u can get 1st month free trial with no splashes and i think u can export the website and host it on ur own hosting service in the trial not sure, or get their plan for 5$ a month and u can edit the website unlimited times create unlimited websites and databases and have hosting included which is not that bad is 99.97% up-time which is normal for any hosting service since there will be downtime for maintenance once a year for like 5 minutes.

    if u dont want their hosting u can pay 5$ for 1 month then cancel the subscription get ur custom website done in that time export it to html5 get the zip files and put it on ur own hosting and no splash powered by nothing.

    as for the full-screen procedural generated bg, all i see is some leaves in the background moving around on my end... are those what u call procedural generated? u can do the same thing either by putting a video in ur website bg or using prebuilt js that u can find on jsfiddle or other websites like it even putting ur c2 animated bg as an iframe as the bg of ur website crazy right? xD there are many other services like wix a lot of website hosting providers offer easy website builders that have drag and drop functions. but wix as i said for a person like u that never touched coding is my best advice to u. and is rather cheap. probably by 2019 since we going to pass into the next year soon, are already existing better intuitive UI's then wix's but i tried it a long time ago 1 year probably and their system of making websites stuck in my head, cause of the simplicity of it. i don't use it, cause i like doing things manually and have control over my own hosting and editor when comes to websites (notepad++ lol). but over C2 capabilities id go with wix, even though i been praising Construct for years now, and it can indeed make great stuff on designing apps/websites/games/movies etc it is not entirely made for all those things, so there will be a lot of issue you will face. but if u are happy with C2 u should keep using it for ur project, just on my end as i tested ur project now, i found 5 glitches by using only my 1 button which is click on mouse. one being on the very 1st page when u scroll up and then press the text saying "have a look around ..." text and all disappears outside menu. that wouldn't happen in a normal website as a glitch.

    and if u think html5 coding is hard don't worry nobody really memorizes the code... every programmer has a notebook somewhere reminding him what his code does. if u wanna learn some html5 best advice is start with w3school tutorials they cover everything literally and their example are so simple u will get it immediately u can even copy paste the code from there lol and do ur own website from the tutorials only.

    have fun again, like what u did with ur website it has personality.

  • Hi, yes, this is basically what I have used so far.

    My main concern was though that WASD does not even exist (as a normal mapping) on any other keyboard than qwerty. So for you and me wasd makes sense, but not in all the other parts of the world. :)

    true, but i doubt there is a big number of people using those keyboards in today's age when they want to play stuff or have free time ... i mean some do at their job and in France people might use azerty since is their version of qwerty as their language is much more accommodating to that type of letter assembly dvorak is designed for typists which i doubt they use the same computer to play games. i think u might overthink this issue a bit.

    if u really concerned with this problem, i would create a custom setting menu where people can bind/map their control keys as they like. would be just easier for you, in eliminating the types of keyboards or controls out there. have it pre-filed for qwerty but leave option to edit it and use the preferred custom keys they want. i do see your concern though i get it, so many choices can get confusing, that would be my advice for you though. hope it helps you.

    Edited: instead of wasd default i would use arrow keys with the option to modify.

    to do that you might want to take a look at Kyatric 's example here on youtube

  • HUGE thanks! Just what i needed!

    Website looks good design wise... but...

    why aren't you doing this with wix or a service like it to drag and drop things? is going to be way faster performance wise since is a normal website, and multi-platform compatible devices etc / responsive (meaning will fit any device orientation etc... compared to the current website). ur wesbite is cool in C2 but will have a lot of major limitations and you will probably need a huge tutorial list to create a search database. unless u use google search but that won't work for C2 websites cause there is not sitemap.xml to index ur pages.

    i suggest you in a friendly manner, try wix. believe me it will save u a lot of pain down the road.

    and no this is not a wix advertising... is just makes more sense.

    Edited: if you are worried about pricing there are other services that are completely free and splash free for drag and drop website creation. just google some of them visual coding website creator etc...

    if u worry about powered by at bottom of page... that can be hidden very easily with a little bit of css even though is not recommended if the provider of the tool is enforcing it by their TOS.

    anyway cool stuff :D i like the music u featured there.

  • quick question, i think u already solved your issue by this time .... is your app mobile or pc? if is mobile i have a detection question for you... how do you detect the app is closed? or the user has the intent of closing? compare if app is unfocused?

  • you only need to use the h.264 source that would play anything on any device. it can be a mp4 3gp avi or webm it will run on ios and android. but that is what i know from C2 not sure if is applying to C3 now.

    if is not working try setting the source of the video when the intent of playing the video is happening by saying if player pressed play video button load source h.264 filename with extension then play. it will take a while for it to preload or buffer. but if is inside the project should start in 1 second max.

    it might be that using the free version might have some limitations on exporting the project with the video plugin.

  • i think you should follow the mario pattern of keyboard biddings. it always stuck with people.

    arrows to move wasd as a lefty choice. spacebar to jump shift to shoot or ctrl (on shooting u can even play around with Q and E as they are close to the left side if u moving with wasd.

  • easier to spawn the object would be when the pillars are spawn, bottom and top pick one of them if they are different like if u have a individual top pillar and a individual bottom pillar u can say when bottom pillar is spawning > create coin at bottom_pillar.bboxtop - (coin.height+coin.height/2) but that is if u have a pillar different then other named different, if not im guessing u are using a hidden spawning object with a sine outside right ? that spawns the pillars at some image points? then u can simply say spawn coin at spawner.origin point 0 or the image point that is in the middle of it.

    it all depends on how u made the creation of the things.

    here is a c3 example u can open it with the free edition, the code works with C2 as well.

    flappybird_logic.c3p

    to be noted... that type of gameplay is just "level 1 of flappy birds" or under score 50... original one once u passed score 50 different pipeline patterns come like slanted, moving up and down making the game 1000 times more difficult then this basic movement.

  • Thanks buddy, but i cant open these - there just a bunch a files?

    click download top right the bunch of files is the structure of the zip or the .c3p format which is a zip like format with its own name. there should be a download arrow in the right side of the files list near login or + right. downwards arrow. u will need C3 to use this though.

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