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  • 3 Apr, 2013
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  We recently upgraded our server connection to 10x faster, partly to handle the increased load during new releases. Last release (before r124) I watched the server capacity during launch and it barely came up to 25% usage of the server network. So I think it must be an issue with your connection or ISP.

  Construct 2's reasonably popular in Brazil - I guess it might be possible it's too much contention on regional networks? We could look in to setting up torrents for releases too, since the download is getting fairly big these days.

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 3 Apr, 2013
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  Hmm. Can you make a full post in the Bugs forum for each separate issue? The console thing looks like a small mistake, but the other ones sound more problematic.

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  You should also note one of the reasons the particles object is fast is because things like the single-image limitation and no rotation means it's possible to use a special heavily optimised renderer. If you hack the Particles object to swap texture, it will perform worse than using three unmodified particles objects overlaid.

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  Nice! Saloon Madness is another C2 game as well, IIRC.

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  Create three particle objects with different images, then overlay them on top of each other. You should never modify the scripts directly, since your changes will be reversed on updates and it will make your projects incompatible with everyone else's copy of Construct 2.

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  How are you playing the videos? Construct 2 doesn't have any built-in video playing features, and if you're using a third party plugin, the plugin could be causing the problem.

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  I can't reproduce this, I have a dual-monitor Windows 8 setup in the office and the polygon editor seems to work fine regardless of which monitor the editor is on. Any ideas what else could be causing the problem for you?

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  Hi all,

  The Javascript SDK template has been updated for r124. Download here:

  http://www.scirra.com/downloads/javascript-sdk-template.zip

  <font size="5">Changes</font>

  • Plugin and behavior templates include saveToJSON() and loadFromJSON() template methods. You must implement these for your plugin or behavior to support full-state save/load or the Persist behavior. Usually this is relatively simple (see the comments - you just need to return a JSON object in the save method, then read from the same object in the load method).
  • Plugin and behavior templates now include an onDestroy() method by default. You should drop references or recycle objects for GC in this method, since the runtime will keep the actual instance around for recycling.
  • Some .c2addon samples are bundled, as well as the source folders to zip to create .c2addon files. This should help you easily create .c2addon packages.
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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  Not necessarily - you can have a subevent which tests some conditions, and the subevent won't run or test its conditions until after the 'Wait' resumes.

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Can you explain exactly what happens?

  P.s. edited your title to be lowercase, since all uppercase can be considered shouting/rude online.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  If you use letterbox fullscreen mode with bounded scrolling, the part overflowing the edge of the layout will never appear anyway. So you don't need to worry about hiding it. There is no performance problem, either, because content off-screen is not rendered.

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  Isn't that basically what the Wait action does anyway? What's different or better about the behavior?

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  It also sounds like you should just be using families... they're designed to avoid that kind of repetition!

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  I can't remember exactly what it was David was working on, what did the behavior do?

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  • 2 Apr, 2013
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  Unstickying this thread; there is now an up-to-date SDK manual entry for making .c2addon packages.