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  • 8 Feb, 2015
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  It looks like you need to premultiply by your calculated alpha value M, not the original alpha value from the pixel.

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  • 7 Feb, 2015
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  Aren't those feature requests for the tools you're using?

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  • 7 Feb, 2015
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  I'm not sure it would be useful. As far as my own investigation has shown, the measurements the test produces do not correlate with dropped frames due to v-sync. (E.g. the measurements can say everything's fine while it's janking to hell, or the measurements can be showing loads of jank when it's running perfectly smoothly.)

  A better way to test that would probably just be to make a large smoothly scrolling background and visually inspect it on different platforms.

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  • 7 Feb, 2015
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  From http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/07/18/3926581.aspx:

  [quote:2bzq6b3g]The first answer is "If you have to ask, you're probably doing something wrong." Programs shouldn't be creating anywhere near ten thousands window manager objects in the first place.

  Along the same lines: I don't understand how you could possibly need so many thousands of individual images? What are you doing? Surely there is a better way?

  The editor could spritesheet images for preview, but that would be a big architectural change and could slow down preview. And I don't see the point, since needing thousands and thousands of images does sound like you're doing something wrong.

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  • 6 Feb, 2015
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  It probably works out the same. Unless you can measure a difference.

  Measurements are the only authority on performance advice - anything not based on measurements is guesswork.

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  • 6 Feb, 2015
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  That's what 'Request URL' does.

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  • 6 Feb, 2015
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  It's so early on that it's hard to talk about anything specific at all. All of this is yet to be researched, designed and coded. However 3rd party plugins are a really important feature of C2, so if it's at all reasonably possible, we want to preserve that feature.

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  • 6 Feb, 2015
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  NW.js is just a standalone build of Chrome, so I guess the same thing applies there? (i.e. FRAPS can't record Google Chrome)

  That's really not our problem or even NW.js' problem, that's something FRAPS need to fix.

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  • 6 Feb, 2015
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  They can if they make the necessary adjustments to their network configuration, but that depends entirely on their specific setup.

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  • 6 Feb, 2015
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  You don't really need an externs.js file. Just use obj["prop"] syntax for anything from external scripts.

  Note if you use something like externalLib["someFunc"], then 'externalLib' is not using the ["prop"] syntax so will be renamed and broken by the minifier. Solution: just use window["externalLib"]["someFunc"].

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  • 6 Feb, 2015
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  The limit of 10,000 images is a limit in Windows - a limit in the native technology - which all apps face, including Windows-based browsers, and the C2 editor itself. I've researched it a bit and only found a blog post from a Microsoft engineer claiming it "should be enough for anyone". Go figure.

  I think a better question is how can you need so many thousands of images? That's crazy!

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  • 5 Feb, 2015
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  You could set up a TURN server, but then you have to pay for the server and the bandwidth that routes through it.

  Note this is a problem of the architecture of the IPv4 internet - it's not specific to C2, any peer-to-peer connections have to deal with this.

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  • 5 Feb, 2015
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  — - no - as per the bug report guidelines we ask that you reproduce the problem in a new empty project and share that. Complete projects are not useful to us anyway, since they are generally too difficult to debug.

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  • 4 Feb, 2015
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  Peer-to-peer connections are blocked by some firewalls or network setups. You will only get about 90% connectivity by default.

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  • 4 Feb, 2015
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  Please follow the bug report guidelines, in particular indicating which version of Construct 2 you are using, and attaching your .capx.