Ashley's Forum Posts

  • No, you can only change the time scale for the entire game. How would it work if you just changed the timescale for one layer? How would 'every' events, timers, TimeDelta, and other things not directly associated with a layer, know which timescale to use?

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  • Before every game condition check if "Paused" is 0.

    If you really need to do that, you could just enable/disable a group of events, or put them all in a subevent to a 'paused is 0' event. You definitely don't need to repeat the condition over and over.

  • Does it work if you do:

    + For Each Spot

    -> Set spot position to Sprite.ImagePointX(LoopIndex), Sprite.ImagePointY(LoopIndex)

  • Not yet. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask away. It might help to have a browse through the comments in the source files in the SDK. We're still working on complete documentation for the SDK.

  • It was a bug. You can recurse with ordinary "call function" actions, but not expressions. It's fixed in the next build, so your example will work then.

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  • Oh, I think the initial values for global and private variables are always floats. I think you need to set them to int(current_value) on start of layout to make them integers, or just call random(int(value)).

  • I don't think it's a bug. Random() generates a float if you pass it a float and an integer if you pass it an integer. If the global variable contains a float, random() will generate a float. Using integer only calculations is not guaranteed to result in an integer. For example, 1 / 3 gives 0.33333... instead of 0. If you want rounding, you should explicitly use int(), round(), floor() or ceil(). I believe this is more useful behavior (since you can't calculate a ratio with a / b if both are integers, you get 0 with integer division).

  • Well, I ceratinly like the sound of that, but you guys are the developers and it's your baby. It's still beta software and I'm sure you have your own plans of where to take it.

    I really like the idea of a centralised project bar. I'm not afraid to make fairly major changes to keep Construct moving. The more it evolves the more streamlined it'll get. And our users are an important source of ideas, I don't think it's useful for any developer to shun community feedback and take the project their own direction.

    [quote:1ej9wabd]I'd like to emphasise my earlier point that the lack of a proper tilemap system is a pretty big deal when it comes to developing traditional 2D games.

    That's a good point. I believe David had been working on some kind of tile system, but I think other things got prioritised over it and it's not quite finished yet.

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  • I think maybe combining the resources bar and project bar in to one might help. Is that what you're talking about?

    If we had one Project bar which had the following folders:

    • Layouts
    • Event sheets
    • Objects
    • Sound effects
    • Music
    • Fonts
    • Icons
    • Menus
    • Binary

    ...and things could be sorted in to sub-folders within that. Then there'd be a single place to organise the entire application. Sound good?

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  • No, that's not currently supported (but the Param expression returns 0 for any parameters that are not provided).

  • So how can we help in order for Construct to reach a wider audience?

    That's not entirely up to us developers... a lot of people need to get involved in spreading the word, writing documentation and creating tutorials for us to be able to get anywhere near the impact companies who have advertising money can achieve.

  • [quote:2l0e31xp]i'm just asking you to inform me in which areas Construct lags behind

    Actually I was going to ask you where Construct lags behind Gamemaker. Personally, I've never actually used Gamemaker - I did try to give it a shot but it crashed on startup and nobody on the forums could help me (I'm sure it's just a bad luck/my PC sucks thing). Also, since we're constantly actively developing Construct, if you let us know where you think Construct is behind Gamemaker, we can either help direct you to the right features to solve the problem, or add new features which improve it.

    I think the main area Gamemaker is way ahead of us on is popularity. With a huge community comes lots of other benefits like lots of tutorials, documentation, and numerous useful sites. We don't have a lot of that right now, but obviously we hope to one day take over the world, and we still have things like Deadeye's excellent Platform School tutorial and the freshly started community site Construct Corner.