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  • 6 Feb, 2014
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  Isn't this a problem in the other program? Construct 2 is just a normal windows app and doesn't do anything unusual with keyboard shortcuts AFAIK.

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  • 5 Feb, 2014
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  Consider using Tiled - an external editor with lots more features - and importing your TMX files to Construct 2 from there.

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  jayderyu - were they animated? Sprites with a single animation with a single frame should not need any overhead, but if they have any other frames at all the engine will have some overhead for them ticking them to ensure the animation frame stays up to date.

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  If you want to animate particles, just use sprites instead.

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  • 5 Feb, 2014
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  We get more feature requests than we can deal with, so if you're making a suggestion you should describe a really good use case that shows how it's important and why it should be prioritised over other things.

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  I think those ideas are better implemented as plugins anyway. For example a speech bubble isn't a kind of behavior that any kind of object can use, it's a new kind of object.

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  Closing, it's just a mistake in your events. Touch.X and Touch.Y by design only return the first touch's position. Use the XForID and YForID expressions to get the position for a particular touch ID instead.

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  I'm not clear on what exactly you're asking... strictly speaking you can have other conditions above a collision testing one, as long as they are not for the same object type. In other words the picked objects must be untouched by the first collision check condition. It sounds like you don't have many collision checks anyway so it might not be something you need to worry about.

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  No, because it's not obvious how it could help - there's no way of knowing which collision cell the nearest or farthest object will be in, and over long distances it's actually slower to look in lots of collision cells.

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  In theory the layout size and object size should not affect the performance more than having everything on one screen. There is not extra work for the engine to do. The object count is definitely significant though, especially if you are testing collisions.

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  Would this really be useful? You can only have two simultaneous touches with exactly the same position and movement (i.e. following the mouse cursor), which is unrealistic. Also, there cannot be touch index 1 before there is a touch index 0, so I don't see much point in simulating that either.

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  dooley - it runs perfectly here in Chrome for Android on a Nexus 5. Looks like a steady 60 FPS. What device/browser have you been testing on?

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  Yeah, see the section on Closure Compiler compatibility in the SDK docs.

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  • 4 Feb, 2014
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  Pode - media sources are on the todo list

  dooley - effects and physics are very resource-intensive. Have you not run your game on a mobile before? Desktops can easily be over 10 times faster than mobile, so you have to sometimes very carefully design them using only features that perform well. You can quickly test in Chrome for Android using preview-over-wifi.

  RenatoB - it's Android 4.0+.

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  dooley - for the most part it should work identically to Chrome for Android. If you get the same results in Chrome for Android, it's most likely not a crosswalk specific problem. If you have any specific issues that you can reproduce, please share the .capx and the steps to reproduce so we can investigate - otherwise there is not much we can do.