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  • 13 Dec, 2013
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  Some latency of rendering behind user input is normal in game engines. Different systems have different amounts of latency.

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  Use letterbox integer scale. Don't just double the window size, why not use the Browser object to enter fullscreen mode?

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  If the XML file is a project file, the AJAX object's 'Request project file' action should work fine. How are you exporting/publishing?

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  I found TileAt does report the wrong value for empty tiles - from the next build it will return -1.

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  Dictionary uses raw javascript object properties, so it depends on the javascript engine - in some cases it's O(1) with a hash table implementation, but at worst should be something like O(log n). We've got improvements to the collision engine on our todo list, but it's tricky (not just a matter of swapping an array for something else).

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  Or you can use 'Pick Nth instance' and local variables.

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  What on earth made you think we're moving to a subscription model? We are not and have no plans to. I checked with Tom and we have not even made any new announcements and have not put up or taken down any pages recently.

  Edit: yeah, we have a subscription model for educational institutes, but it's far far cheaper than per-machine licenses so it's a good deal. We have no plans to change the Personal or Business licenses.

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  • 12 Dec, 2013
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  It's a sequential search. Consider using Dictionary for O(log n) lookup performance.

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  vervo - are you using r152 or newer? We fixed a bunch of Windows 8.1/IE11 compatibility issues in the few releases before then.

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  Zaoeyo - that's a very inefficient use of tilemaps. Since you're just using it to repeat a single image, it would be far, far more efficient to use the Tiled Background object.

  If you run it in the debugger you can see it reports 441 draw rects for that tilemap, mainly because every tile is different and there are no areas of the same tile. This means it's about the same work as drawing 441 sprites. If you used a single tiled background object, it would take 1 draw call, which would be approximately 400 times more efficient.

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  I've reviewed our code and can't see any problems, it looks like it should correctly fire 'On purchase failed' in the failure branch of the purchase request. Burvey is right, you may simply have made a mistake in your events and handled it incorrectly yourself. Closing - we can't address this unless you follow the bug report guidelines (attach a .capx etc).

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  Internally, it's -1, but you shouldn't need to use that, just use the 'erase tile' actions instead.

  I think it's a bug that it returns that value for the erased tile IDs... might have a quick look and perhaps fix that for the next build.

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  Sounds like it might be a bug - post a minimal .capx reproducing it to the bugs forum.

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  Hard to comment without a .capx. If you have a tilemap with loads of random, very small tiles, then there will simply be a lot of rendering work. Are you doing that? Also is WebGL enabled?

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  • 12 Dec, 2013
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  Yeah, timescale should affect everything. Post a bug report if it doesn't work.