Ashley's Forum Posts

  • Press Control + Shift + J in Chrome or Firefox or F12 in IE to see Javascript errors. For example your server sends the .appcache with the wrong MIME type, see offline support to fix that.

    What's with the websocket thing? Is it a third party plugin or behavior? It's probably broken by the minifier - it's the developers fault for writing a broken plugin, you should ask them to fix it :P

  • Do you mean the Car behavior? I'm not sure I understand, it can drive backwards. Try the Car example in the examples folder.

  • Thanks for the suggestions! We're very busy, but we'll try get on top of these soon. Which windows don't allow changing the thumbnail sizes by the way?

  • Well, nothings stopping anyone giving AppMobi a go - you can probably drop in an exported Construct 2 project and try building that. Would love to hear anyone's feedback on it, but I don't think it will work for the majority of C2 users until they have a Build system comparable to PhoneGap.

  • This looks amazing, can't wait to see it!

  • Will try to get fixed for the next build!

  • If both the player and the target can move, the math is surprisingly complicated. It's probably easier to try to 'guide' the weapon with a 'rotate towards position' or similar.

  • Nice idea, but the majority of the filesize of exported apps are PNGs (which are already run through PNGCrush to squeeze them even smaller) and Ogg Vorbis or MP4 AAC audio. Already-compressed data doesn't usually gain anything significant by being zipped.

    The scripts could be zipped... but if your server supports deflate, it sends them to the browser compressed anyway!

  • I've seen this and it looks very interesting, but there are two problems - there's such little documentation I can't see any obvious way to actually use it, and it seems to require you set up a full blown XCode development system on a Mac. The reason I like PhoneGap so much is the build system is so simple. Without PhoneGap build, to make an iOS app you need to own a Mac, download XCode, download a bunch of SDKs, install everything and run the compiler. The whole system is designed for programmers. Same story for Android: you need to download hundreds of megabytes of the Eclipse IDE, Android SDK, configure the compiler correctly, and on and on. I did it myself and it was a massive headache, and I'm a programmer! And again for Symbian, and again for all the others. Compare that to PhoneGap Build: upload, wait a moment, done. If we tell people to get these development systems we're also obliged to help them get it working, which is really complicated, slow and difficult. So I see PhoneGap as being much more suitable for the non-technical easyness of Construct 2. AppMobi don't appear to have a similar online build service.

    So PhoneGap is OK but not great - iOS 5 performance is OK for simple games and Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) should be similar, but it's still not quite there. I'm hoping for WebGL to be supported on phones soon. Our runtime already supports it and that should enable close-to-native performance in HTML5.

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  • I'm surprised more people haven't taken up iOS web apps. Not only do they work on other kinds of phones, but they work very similarly to native apps thanks to Construct 2's offline support... and you even have the opportunity to set up your own payment system on your website and avoid the 30% cut Apple take, not to mention the fuss caused by their approval process!

    Performance is a problem, but we've got ideas about how that can be improved in future too. We're a 2-man company - we don't have people and money to throw at problems like this :-\</p>

  • A simple way is to spawn a bullet object with gravity.

  • pedro.thiers: you use 'set text' instead of 'append text' so you'll only ever see one hi-score. The second time 'on hi-score' triggers, for example, the text object contains the first score but Set Text changes it to the second score.

    Facebook's API is notoriously buggy. If it doesn't work for a day, then starts working, it probably is Facebook fiddling with it - I had that kind of issue even when developing the plugin, which was frustrating.

  • Oops, you're right, fixed for next build. You can use the layer name instead of number in events, which is probably more useful in case you re-order layers anyway.

  • Sounds download before playing once you've exported. You might want to use the 'preload' action to start loading it on start of layout or something.

  • newt - I don't understand, you're supposed to use a variable with a UID. What's wrong with that?

    Instance indices are useless because they change all the time. If you delete the object with index 0 every single other instance changes its index. So if you stored an index in a variable it's now wrong. Why would you ever want to use that?