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  • 30 May, 2012
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  Optimisation - don't waste your time

  Providing hardware acceleration is in use, there is no difference between any of these options. It is probably of more concern to you how the source image size affects the download size.

  From Performance Tips in the manual:

  ommon misconceptions

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  Size, angle or opacity of sprites/tiled backgrounds and floating-point positions (e.g. positioning a sprite at X = 10.5) has no effect when hardware acceleration is in use. This may be a little surprising or counter-intuitive, but modern graphics cards can usually render a sprite at the same speed regardless of whether it is tiny or huge (fullscreen or even bigger) and regardless of its angle, opacity or position.

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  • 29 May, 2012
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  Using Web Fonts in the Text object

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  Yeah, that would allow finer control... I'll see what I can do...

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  Well, are you sure your tile artwork itself actually lines up? Looks like you have some slightly different animation speeds or something so they will break synchronisation.

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  You're probably not breaking other instance's references to that object's joints. I'll see if I can add that action officially anyway so you don't need to hack the behavior yourself.

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  The rule isn't exactly that: the rule is if an object type is not referenced (no conditions even mention it) then it stays in "all picked" mode, and expressions return for the first instance.

  If you add a condition in an OR block that no instances meet, it is referenced, so the rule does not apply. And it results in no instances picked, so there are 0 picked instances, and therefore nothing to get expressions from.

  It is a bit confusing, but the event system is working normally here (as far as I can tell). The question is should it work differently for this case, and if so how and why?

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  I'm not sure what you're trying to do - the 'InstanceName' expressions don't make much sense to me. Can you explain some more what you're attempting?

  If you want to get expressions from an instance with a specific UID, add a subevent with a 'Pick by UID' condition, then in that event expressions will return results for that instance.

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  There are no fixed limits: every game, and every device, is different. You just have to test on all the devices you're interested in to be sure the performance is good.

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  Are you sure you looked in the XDK projects folder, that you created the project correctly, and that you looked for a folder with the name of the project you created? Maybe searching your computer for the project name will help you find it.

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  Gillis - your post reads like a post by a spambot. Make sure you contribute something to the thread otherwise you risk a moderator mistaking you for a spammer and deleting your account.

  Schoening - it's up to you whether you scale the HUD or not. On some devices it can make the HUD too small or too big though if you don't scale it. On the whole I would recommend scaling the HUD and test it on a range of devices to see if that works well.

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  That's a good idea, I'll see if I can come up with something.

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  dEspadas, bolosaur - are you testing with r92? Some related fixes were included.

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  I know it's an annoying problem, but browser support for point sampling in canvas 2D is only a few months away hopefully. So I would recommend simply scaling the game and waiting for browser support, and test with WebGL in the mean time.

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  bolosaur - we use offline caching to allow games to load offline. This means if you visit the same URL you visited previously, even if you updated the files on the server it will not update unless you refresh the page another two or three times. So you're probably still seeing the old version of the game. Does re-refreshing fix it?