Ashley's Forum Posts

  • Closing as won't fix: the file is corrupt, the icon files have gone missing. We can't fix this unless you provide the steps to follow to make this happen in the first place.

  • Click 'Reset dialogs' in Preferences. We cannot do anything about this without a sequence of steps to follow to make it happen in the first place.

  • Has anyone seen this happen in Firefox or IE? It would be useful if anyone affected could preview for a while using a different browser and report back if the same issue occurs. Reading this thread, it does sound like a Chrome-only issue.

    Has anyone ever seen this after exporting as well? It also sounds like it's limited to previewing only, which would mean it wouldn't impact published games.

  • Closing as not a bug, that error message is a problem with a third party plugin. Try removing your third party plugins.

  • We already fixed a bug with collisions between different layers for the next build: http://www.scirra.com/forum/solid-ghost-parallax-00_topic78505.html

    If that does not fix it, we will need a repro following the guidelines.

  • Can't reproduce. Enter 9999... and it definitely changes.

  • You can store references to objects by storing a UID in a number variable.

    Put a data storage object like Array or Dictionary in a container with another object, and you also get a separate storage for each individual object. So you can get per-object multi-dimensional arrays this way.

  • It might be the ordinary UAC prompt that Windows shows when running a downloaded EXE. In English it reads something like "Do you want to run the following program from an unknown publisher?" Usually you just click 'yes' and it runs. If it's signed, it shows a message mentioning the publisher. The Construct 2 installer is digitally signed and you can see the message asks if you want to run the file published by Scirra Ltd and the warning dialog looks less severe (they use a different icon IIRC).

    Digitally signing any executables you publish is a very, very good idea. You should definitely do it if it is a commercial game. It's out of the scope of Construct 2 though - you'll need to purchase a code signing certificate and look at Microsoft's documentation on the subject.

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  • Construct 2 renames all object types after export as an additional protection against reverse engineering. It's caused a few problems though (such as making a 'create object by name' action difficult) so I suppose we might just remove it. In the mean time, you cannot rely on using object names at all. You should only accept objects passed as object parameters to actions or conditions and remember the direct references to them rather than trying to look up objects by name.

  • You are probably doing a calculation that results in NaN. 0 is a common case where things go wrong: divide anything by 0 and you'll get infinity or NaN, and then passing that result to other calculations can result in more NaNs.

  • A better way would be to run a WebSocket or HTTP server in Python, and communicate using C2's WebSocket or AJAX plugins.

  • Added for the next build!

  • We prefer not to reinvent the wheel, and we think Spriter is already good for this. We've done a lot of work to get the importer working nicely and it should be working smoothly. It does need to add a single event to your event sheet, but I don't think that qualifies as hacky.

  • We have a blog at https://www.scirra.com/blog which we occasionally post updates to. However generally we're not sure enough of our future plans to announce them - we tend to chop and change to meet user demands and technology shifts (e.g. new platforms being launched) as and when necessary. If we announced anything, it seems there'd be quite a high chance of us postponing it or doing something else instead, so we would rather not announce much at all. Our preferred strategy is to build things then just release them!

    We did do a few roadmap blogs a while back - perhaps actually now would be a good time to do another one of those.

  • Don't forget it's not just for indies who have made $5000 USD - if you want to use it in a for-profit organisation, you also need a business license.