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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 22 Mar, 2009
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  This bug is not fixed if you can still make it crash. Please report all bugs to the tracker!

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  • 22 Mar, 2009
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  Welcome to the forums

• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  Oh. You can't do that right now, I'm afraid.

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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  I don't understand. You just use the draw terrain/plot object actions to generate an overview of the layout with dots for objects. That's what the minimap object does.

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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  Wow, it does look great. It's 3D and scripting-based though. Looks like a 3D construct sort of

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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  Umm... what? The minimap object draws for the entire game layout.

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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  Using effects requires the runtime create offscreen surfaces for temporary drawing. It might be that you're out of VRAM before it comes to make these surfaces. The new VRAM controls next build should help with that.

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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  I haven't heard anyone else report this problem. I think it might be a problem with your computer/DirectX version, rather than an issue with Construct. Best thing to do I think is update all your drivers (especially graphics card), install all software updates, check for viruses/adware, etc.

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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  Have you tried restarting Construct? If it still does it, can you upload a .cap somewhere which is doing that?

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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  You can't make it draw a scaled-down version of the entire 6400 x 4800 layout. However, you could try using the 'draw terrain' action to draw objects on, and use sprites or point textures to represent objects in the game.

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  • 21 Mar, 2009
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  The IDE is still built in Visual Studio 2005, so it's OK.

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  • 20 Mar, 2009
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  Searching on google with site:scirra.com in the search query might be a good alternative.

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  • 20 Mar, 2009
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  It's still in the works for 0.99.

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  • 19 Mar, 2009
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  Until we do that, you could use something like reshack to edit in your own icon.

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  • 19 Mar, 2009
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  So in my case the graphics are the bottle neck.

  Then have options to allow the user to turn off effects if their computer can't handle them. It's a well known issue physics doesn't work well with large timedeltas.