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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  Should be fixed in the next build.

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  I'm not sure what we can do about this. We've gone through a few revisions of the effect now to fix other fringing issues for another game. I don't really want to change it again since it's likely to break the other fringing situations we've already fixed.

  Feel free to hack away at the effect source if you want to try fixing it yourself...

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  Not officially, because 3D without WebGL is generally too slow to be useful. It could be implemented by a plugin if you really want it though.

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  • 17 Dec, 2013
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  Construct 2 already manages memory efficiently: it only loads the current layout in to memory at a time (with the WebGL renderer, anyway). However if you have a single layout using tonnes of memory, it won't help you there. Construct 2's memory usage estimate in the status bar is based on the largest layout only, not the whole project.

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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  You would need to change the runtime.linearSampling value, and then also change the sampler settings on every texture that exists.

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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  Layers don't have their own texture by default. You can make it have one by enabling 'Force own texture' (or changing opacity or adding effects), but this can be a killer for fill rate on mobile devices. When the layer is using its own texture, the back sampler is the layer texture.

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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  The problem isn't it's difficult - it's easy with the WebGL renderer. It's just that in canvas2d mode it wouldn't be supported. So Safari for iOS, older Android devices, old desktops with blacklisted drivers, IE9-10 and a few other platforms wouldn't support it. From the eyes of the user, this basically means "argh my game is randomly broken".

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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  Do you mean draw rects or a tile count expression? They mean different things.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  You use a whole bunch of third party plugins and behaviors, any of which could be breaking it. To find out more you could set up remote debugging for Chrome and see what's in the browser error console.

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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  I cannot emphasise enough how bad an idea it is to modify the scripts that come with Construct 2. Your .capx project will no longer be portable to a normal installation of Construct 2, and we will not have any regard for these changes as we make (sometimes sweeping) changes to the engine in future.

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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  You should just write a plugin. It really shouldn't be that hard if you already know javascript.

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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  Many laptops ship with dual GPUs: a really weak one with poor performance to use as little battery power as possible, and a more powerful battery-draining one for gaming and high performance. (Or in some cases, one GPU with two power modes, with the same effect.) Pulling out the power cable often switches to the low-power mode and starts using the weaker GPU or low-power mode. This is a normal result with laptops and isn't a bug.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  Some of those features are difficult to pull off in the canvas2d renderer and would probably only be supported with WebGL. We're very cautious about adding features that only work in WebGL mode, since it can make it difficult to port your game.

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  • 16 Dec, 2013
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  Please make a bug report for this following all the guidelines, and then we might be able to investigate.