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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 9 Mar, 2015
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  I double-checked our code and it definitely sets the volume before starting the sound. Also it works correctly in Firefox. So it seems to be some issue with Chrome. We can't fix Chrome bugs for them, you'll have to report it to Google, so closing as won't fix.

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  • 9 Mar, 2015
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  Closing as can't reproduce, and nobody else is reporting this, so seems to be a problem specific to your system. C2 does tell Windows to hide any windows it creates during the export process, so something on your system must be overriding this.

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  Closing as duplicate of https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=151&t=116561. It seems the workaround is pretty easy, just use tiled backgrounds for jump-thrus, whereas fixing this would be difficult (the engine considers the entire tilemap to be a single object and treats it accordingly).

  I don't remember ever saying tilemap zoom was impossible. Citation needed!

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  • 9 Mar, 2015
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  That looks like it is caused by a third party plugin, so check you have all addons installed correctly and up to date.

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  • 9 Mar, 2015
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  Yes, it will use collision cells. The collision condition only needs to be the first condition in the event referring to those object types. "Every X seconds" is a system condition so does not refer to any object types. If you had a condition before it picking any "enemy" or "player" instances, that would force it to skip collision cells.

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  • 9 Mar, 2015
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  No, you should not define self as a global variable.

  Construct 2 uses Google Closure Compiler to compile JS code, which is separately documented by Google.

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  • 9 Mar, 2015
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  All existing C2 content already has Ogg Vorbis audio. Switching format to something like Opus would be tricky because everyone would have to re-encode/transcode their audio files.

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  • 9 Mar, 2015
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  Lag depends pretty much entirely on the quality of the connection. I don't think the multiplayer plugin is responsible for that.

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  • 9 Mar, 2015
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  There's no support for mixed wrapping modes. You can set wrapping modes for individual text objects, but if you need to mix wrapping modes in one text object I think you'll have to roll your own system.

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  • 8 Mar, 2015
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  The question doesn't really make any sense. Animations don't have much to do with render cells. See How render cells work

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  • 8 Mar, 2015
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  Object sealing is shallow, so if you have a root property, you can dynamically add and delete properties from that property.

  Adding/removing properties dynamically can reduce performance in modern JS engines, so the engine tries to enforce static object properties by sealing objects. I think we eventually turned that off though due to sealing ironically having a performance impact on some other JS engines Still best practice is to keep a static set of object properties. For a dynamic data structure though there's no problem with adding/removing properties, since that's what it's for.

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  • 8 Mar, 2015
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  Start with Multiplayer tutorial 1: concepts. The Multiplayer plugin ships with the latest releases of Construct 2.

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  • 8 Mar, 2015
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  asm.js has been proven to reach close-to-native speeds, and puts control of audio decoding in our hands (e.g. we can run it over multiple threads with web workers, instead of hoping the browser does that). It would have other benefits like allowing platforms that don't support Ogg Vorbis but support Web Audio (Safari, soon IE) to use the Ogg Vorbis files for sound effects. So it's something I'm interested in looking in to even if this bug gets fixed. And if it doesn't, then we can work around it ourselves too.

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  Tips on publishing HTML5 games to the web

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  • 8 Mar, 2015
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  Rayek - I'm pretty sure color quantizer is lossy. As you say yourself it uses far less colors, but in a clever manner that makes it difficult to perceive that there are fewer colors - but the fact is it modifies the content of the image, therefore it is not lossless. I would imagine with some types of images such as those with gentle gradients would show banding effects so there's still a risk of nasty surprises if you just apply this to an entire project.