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  Previously all three of the Duration, PlaybackTime and Volume expressions would simply return a value for the first audio track with the given tag. That track could be a stopped track so this was actually working as intended, it would just be returning information for the first and stopped audio track when multiple tracks existed with the same tag. I think this demonstrates a valid use case for prioritising a playing track when deciding which track to return information for if there are multiple with the same tag. So I've changed this for the next build, hopefully that fixes it.

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  Closing as can't reproduce in r177, works identically at any window size here. Also the report is confusing: it sounds like you are referring to the Physics behavior, but the Particle Thruster demo does not use the Physics behavior at all, it uses the Custom Movement behavior.

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  Without PNG recompression it basically spritesheets (should be 1-2 seconds) then copies files out (should be another 1-2 seconds). About 95% of export time of most projects is PNG recompression, which despite being processed by all available CPU cores can take several seconds per image.

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  Maybe post this as a tutorial so it's not lost in the forums!

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  I guess node-webkit doesn't support H.264. It is in the documentation though that to cover all platforms you will need at least one free format source (Theora or WebM) and one H.264 source. You should also only test with the latest beta releases, particularly since we've updated node-webkit in the latest betas. Closing as not a bug.

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  The Chrome 36 update broke a lot of old web content, including anything exported in 2012. This also affects Arcade games. They all need re-publishing.

  The Arcade has been in need of an update for a long time but it's been delayed for various reasons. At some point we will launch a new Arcade and largely because of this Chrome update I think the best move would be to start with a blank slate, with no old games, and require everything to be resubmitted.

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  The size of the layout matters much less than other things. See: Performance Tips

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  I do think it's highly unlikely there is an engine bug here because the loops are very widely used and if there were any problems like you describe they would surely have turned up by now already.

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  If you skip PNG recompression isn't it a near-instant export?

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  Closing as by design: a mirrored sprite just has a negated width. Display the width values of each instance and you'll see how it works.

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  CocoonJS is not a real browser which makes it very difficult to support third party APIs that assume there is a real browser present. Does it work in PhoneGap or Crosswalk?

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  Rotated tiles count as different tiles for rendering. But there's really not much point asking - unless draw calls show up high in the profiler then it's a waste of time worrying about it.

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  • 14 Aug, 2014
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  The tilemap object internally breaks up tiles in to cells a bit like the collision cells optimisation, so it works on screen-sized chunks at a time instead of the whole thing. So the size of the tilemap should not affect performance.

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  Does random freezing still happen in r177? It would be better to fix it than revert back to disabling threaded compositing, since it effectively breaks the OS X version and I think is no longer a maintained codepath in Chrome, since the default is to have it enabled.