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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  Are you using directCanvas? It doesn't support accelerometer yet, but we have a workaround implemented in the next build which should fix it.

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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  I'm still very pessimistic that MS will implement WebGL. I think if they did anything along those lines, they'd invent something like WebDX. This would probably cause some awkward compatibility issues (GLSL shaders won't work unless rewritten in HLSL...) but would be better than nothing, and more likely than WebGL.

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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  Right now the whole game, but we have plans to load by layout.

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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  See how to make a platform game. The platform behavior is not designed to work with animated sprites, so we won't fix problems arising from doing this. Use a rectangular non-animated sprite behind the player with the Platform behavior, and if you can still reproduce an issue, post a new bug report.

  #2: this is the Z order you have set. Right click the player and choose bring to top of layer to make them appear in front.

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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  This problem has been reported before r99. It's just down to different rendering depending on the browser. There's not much we can do about it, and it's not even specific to Construct 2 (any HTML5 engine will have to deal with this) so I think I'll have to close this report for now.

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  I don't find a 27 fps average for something as simple as space blaster to be a good result. At all. On mobile: understandable, but on a 360? It's terrible, even if it's through a browser. It seems the performance should be better even if MS is too stubborn to support WebGL. Watch them come up with "DirectX: Live" soon, just to stay relevant.

  Remember the XBox 360 hardware is from 2006. 6 year old hardware is pretty old by today's standards, and in fact modern mobile phones and tablets are probably actually comparable. So I think it is to be expected that XBox 360 performance is roughly what modern mobile performance is.

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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  You just need a set of subevents at the specific point you create an object. There's no need to duplicate all your events. That should still be manageable, right?

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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  Did you try to uninstall Internet Explorer? The start page is rendered with HTML and an IE view because it's the only browser guaranteed to be installed with Windows. If you have some kind of IE customisations it could break the start page.

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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  sqiddster - the best workaround is to make sure everything you do with an instance spawned in a loop is handled in subevents to that event only, rather than subsequent events. That should still work fine.

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  • 20 Sep, 2012
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  sqiddster - yes, only the object count - it really is hard in the engine to handle created objects differently without causing other projects to crash. It's a shame it had to change, if it had always worked this way the problem wouldn't be such a pain...

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  • 19 Sep, 2012
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  The main thing is performance, which html5test doesn't measure - most of those points come from document features for web sites.

  Still - iOS 6 has the web audio API, which if it works, is totally awesome! No more one-sound-at-a-time in Safari!

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  • 19 Sep, 2012
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  Can you describe what you mean by poor quality? Are they pixellated, blurry, glitchy...?

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  • 19 Sep, 2012
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  It's only the object count that is affected. It's fixed for the next build, which should be out by the end of this week (hopefully tomorrow).

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  • 19 Sep, 2012
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  It works here if you press enter, but I just noticed if you click away without pressing enter it does forget it. I'll see if I can do something about that.

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  • 19 Sep, 2012
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  It's hard to add that in an intuitive way. Typing in co-ordinates to properties isn't very visual...