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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 6 Jul, 2014
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  Did you also read the section about offline caching in https://www.scirra.com/manual/168/mime-types?

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  You can, and should, create both a server and a client in the same project. This guarantees the server and client logic is the same and can eliminate duplicate events. Then you can run a dedicated server simply by running a browser tab on a server.

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  AFAIK there aren't any non-browser platforms like node.js that have WebRTC support, and even if they did you would have an extremely difficult time making sense of the Construct 2 Multiplayer protocol. A browser tab on a dedicated server is probably the best way.

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  An object is either fully loaded in to memory with all its animations and animation frames, or not loaded at all. Images are also fully decompressed in memory. For example you may have a 1024 x 1024 PNG file which is only 300kb on disk, but it will effectively be decompressed to a 32-bit bitmap in memory, therefore using up 1024x1024x4 bytes of memory, about 4mb. Adding up all your animation frames like that probably does come to around 50mb+, which is a very large amount for a single object. See Remember not to waste your memory

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  People aren't here to make your game for you. If you need help it would be useful to provide more information about specifically what kind of game you're designing, what you need it to do, what you've tried so far, etc.

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  Just look at the source to one of the other plugins like Text Box or Progress Bar. They show how to correctly position a DOM element over the canvas.

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  This forum isn't the right place to ask. It's not anything to do with Construct 2. It's just a straightforward PHP/mail server setup. I'm sure there are lots of guides on the web if you search around, and then it would be better to ask somewhere like stackoverflow.com if you have trouble setting it up.

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  Why would you want to do that anyway? Presumably the room was left for a reason, such as the player deliberately quit, the server kicked you off, or the connection dropped. For any of those reasons you wouldn't want to re-join immediately, and you could risk setting up a wasteful infinite loop of join-leave-join-leave...

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  • 5 Jul, 2014
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  That code looks like it ought to work, but that "fb-like" inner div looks like it will do nothing by itself unless you also include the script that makes it do something. TBH this isn't much specific to Construct 2, it's just ordinary JS code, so maybe you could ask somewhere like stackoverflow.com.

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  Have you tried r174? It uses an updated version of node-webkit which is more up-to-date with Chrome, and they added the speech stuff fairly recently.

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  There's no easy way to tell other than trying to load the image and seeing if it works. Perhaps you could try using the new file chooser plugin - it allows the user to select a local file instead of loading one off the web, and the local file should always load.

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  We prefer to only implement official features that work on a wide range of platforms, or at least appear likely to gain wide browser support. Otherwise you end up with a patchwork of features that can't be relied on to port.

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  FWIW there is no single list of supported gamepads - it's whatever both the OS recognises (which it should if it has the right driver), and the browser also recognises (which hopefully it does if the OS recognises it, but they might maintain whitelists/blacklists depending on the browser). So it likely varies from system to system and also depends on the browser.

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  Most forums don't allow you to embed arbitrary HTML for security reasons, so I doubt this is possible.

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  I don't think CocoonJS supports video.