AnD4D's Forum Posts

  • I have only been able to find one post about this:

    construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/twitch-tv-chat-integration-vie-110983

    In which (for some bizzare reason) the OP decided to delete all their posts because THEY determine it not to be useful, despite the fact that people ask questions I'm interested to which they respond with what I imagine is a good answer. They say they'll make a tutorial instead, but that isn't available, and the capx link is broken.

    In any case, I'm currently trying to create an app that will simply read messages of a given channel, and have the app react accordingly. At the moment, I do not need to post any messages, but I am interested in looking for ways to do the following:

    Count viewers

    Recognize when bits have been donated AND how much

    Recognize when money has been donated AND how much

    Look for key words

    Recognize who has donated anything, and written specific words

    I may eventually wish to allow the app to post on the specific channel, but at the moment I am not sure how tricky that would be, so I'm skipping it.

    I'm currently just staring blankly at the Websocket plugin :)

    The only image I've been able to find (based on that last post) is the following:

    i.imgur.com/2jxoHhY.png

  • You're right in one regard though! Turning off preview effects has stopped this from happened. It's weird, because I certainly don't have any effects turned on.

  • Yeah, thought that might be it, but I don't use effects. Especially not one that would create such a 3D effect. I wish I could figure this out, as I may find a uses for it in the future :D

  • I just changed a few settings in my parallax settings on a different layout, then changed to a different layout to find the following in my layout editor. Note that this isn't the actual gameplay.

    https://gyazo.com/49bebdc85ad7be760967db352ae6bacc

    I'm confused. I mean, it looks very cool, almost 3D. I'm not using any plugins that would cause anything like this. I also had a weird occasion a while back in which half my images were set to 0 opacity, and had to manually go through and correct everything.

    Anyone seen this before? I've tried quitting and restarting and nothing I do appears to fix it. Luckily it works fine in game, but this is very odd.

  • So... Nobody? :)

    As I said, it's only when trying to sign in using a guest wifi account or mobile data.

    I should point out that I have 2 separate programs working together, both made in C2. The first acts as the main host and has the main game and content. The apps I'm having problems with are web based controllers, similar to how Jack Box games work. As soon as I connect the devices to wifi, it works.

    Might there be security features blocking things that I'm unaware of?

    *edit oh sorry, didn't see your message. Turn servers?

  • I'm creating a multiplayer game that uses a pc as a host, and any other device as a peer, meaning mobile phones and laptops.

    It's usually working fine, but I had a friend come over try to access the game using their mobile on mobile data. It seemed to connect and join the room, but couldn't receive any messages from the host.

    I then suggested she use her laptop, and again she failed. I asked her what wifi she was connected to, and it turned out that she was connected to my routers guest account.

    It was I'd because it's worked fine for other people. I then connected her Wi-Fi to my main account and she was suddenly able to connect.

    I then logged out of my game and turned off my phones Wi-Fi and tried to connect using my mobile data, and that didn't work either.

    Anyone had that issue before? It only seems to happen with data and guest wifi. Yet works with normal wifi, both 2.5ghz and 5ghz.

  • Emailed you :)

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  • With me. Send me an email at skymen75019 at gmail dot com or go the the discord and drop me a DM

    https://discord.gg/AfpSQ8D

    Ahh, I see. I think I'd be more comfortable buying it from a store knowing that I'd have access to any updates and the like.

    How come you aren't just offering a discount on the store?

  • Sorry, but where? On the store it's 7.99.

  • I'm interested in porting my game "Scribble" from the Wii U over to other platforms, however I'm not entirely sure how to go about it.

    The game is a lot like Pictionary in that one player draws an image on the tablet, and the drawing appears on the TV. This is very easy to do on the Wii U, as you simply position the camera in different places depending on the view requirements... however, as the PC (for example) doesn't have a dedicated touch screen controller, I'm not sure how to go about it.

    My thoughts are that I could adopt a similar approach as used by the Jackbox series, in which players are able to use their mobile devices to control the game.

    Has anyone done something similar before? I'm not sure where to start. The Jackbox games have players connect to a website with their mobile devices, and can then write or even draw on the screen and it'll appear on the main display. Would I be able to utilize the multiplayer functionality of Construct to achieve this?

    I also have Construct 3, but don't use it. Is there anything within that program which may make things easier? Scribble was made using Construct 2, so it should be easy enough to update.

    Thanks in advance.

  • I understand now. I thought telling Construct which digit of pi to produce would work, but it seems it's for mathematical equations instead.

  • I only need 1 digit of pi at a time, which is why I'm already using the mid function to get the number. If I can't get it directly from that, how would I achieve that using a text variable?

  • I'm trying to work with Pi to produce a series of numbers in a predictable pattern.

    I thought Pi would be perfect, but I'm facing 2 issues. If I ask Construct to display Pi, for some reason it only shows the first 11 numbers, the last of which is seemingly rounded up. Anyway to get it to display more?

    3.1415926536

    instead of

    3.141592653589

    When I ask it to display each number one by one, via a mouse click, it will display the first few, but then start going wrong, and eventually just displaying a whole load of zeros.

    3.14159265358979300000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

    I can't exactly figure out what's going on. Was going to post this in the "How do I section" but I feel my code is OK. Not sure what else to do.

    http://bearboxmedia.com/apps/Temp/Pi.capx

  • R0J0hound Regarding the joints, I only tested it out quickly, but they gave unexpected results. Probably something I missed, as I rarely connect physics objects together.

    Comparing Chipmunk with Box2D, however, I did note that upon dropping another chipmunk physics sprite (non-floating) alongside the floating sprite, the floating object actually fell at a slower rate than the other. I compared the 2 versions and found that this was due to the local variable "Damp".

    This only affected things in the Chipmunk example. Setting this variable to a lower number made the sprites fall at (visually) identical speeds, but did result in a bounce upon hitting the water.

    When I changed this variable in the Box2D example, there was no change in falling speeds, but upon hitting the water, I did get undesirable results.

    I understand that this can be remedied by having an "Is overlapping" event in the latter event, but I try to avoid collision detection wherever possible, as I find it's usually a cause for errors. Are you aware of a method for solving this without overlap? or perhaps you are of the opinion that overlap doesn't cause enough of a problem to warrant additional changes?

    I much prefer the Chipmunk physics than Box2D, so that is my ideal engine, if only for the contact points.

  • R0J0hound

    Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you, but I've only just taken a look at it.

    This is crazy impressive stuff, and I barely understand what I'm looking at. I'm amazed the first example looks so good but doesn't even use physics. The Box2D example appears to work the best at the moment, or how I'd imagine it to work in real life, with the perfectly square object coming to rest to a flat angle. The Chipmunk example had the square float with a corner pointing up. Seems like that is changed simply by house much underwater an object is. Perhaps that is the way things work in reality.

    Do you know how this might be adapted for objects that aren't squares and rectangles? I noticed that when I tried this with an L shape, it was still recognized as a square, so I see it's using the image points of an object. Increasing the number of image points to match the L shape and setting the "repeat 4 times" to "repeat imagepointcount+1" seems to work.

    So far, however, I've been unable to connect 2 separate objects together, which is a shame. But yeah, overall it's working really well. Using a few changes to variables, I think I should be able to demonstrate empty boxes and full ones, even resulting in them sinking over time.