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  • 26 Jun, 2014
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  GameThirsty - my solution would be to leave it as it is!

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  • 26 Jun, 2014
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  No, don't hard code integration. Just provide link points in the event system, e.g. run a trigger when you want to really run a function, and the user can run a function in that trigger. What benefit does this have over the user making their own functions to manage multiplayer messages anyway? I'm particularly worried by your example of calling a "MoveLeft" function on all peers that appears to completely ignore and therefore probably break input prediction, which would make games far more laggy. On top of that trusting peers to call functions to create themselves on all other peers breaks the security model of the multiplayer engine where the host is authoritative, and allows peers to destructively hack multiplayer games. Since both examples are counter to a well-designed multiplayer game I'm not convinced by what you're trying to achieve here.

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  • 26 Jun, 2014
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  Some browsers like Safari on iOS show a popup next to the element when you press it. Wouldn't moving it offscreen break that?

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  Use Sprite's 'Load image from URL' action and pass the FileURL from the file chooser object.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  This is requested every now and again... the problem is there isn't a single overlap point, there is an overlap region (and possibly more than one overlap region depending on the collision poly), and it would probably be very CPU intensive to calculate the area or provide some useful way to make use of that area.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  It shouldn't clear, no. Which exporter are you using specifically?

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  SgtConti - this issue doesn't happen in Chrome, does it? I can't reproduce in Chrome here.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  It must be a bug in node-webkit, not Construct 2. The next beta will ship with nw-0.10.0-rc1 and reproduces this, but it's up to the node-webkit developers to fix it, so I'd recommend filing a bug with them.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  Crosswalk is a few versions behind Chrome and will need updating before it is supported. Closing.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  Closing as won't fix, this is basically the same issue as https://www.scirra.com/forum/text-object-drops-the-performance-on-mobile-significant_t108633 and the conclusion is the same. Although I'd add in this case you change the text contents every tick, forcing a GPU upload of a new texture every tick. If you have to change text every frame, prefer a sprite font.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  Closing as won't fix. The problem is you size the text object really big. In the WebGL renderer every time the text object changes, it has to upload a new texture to the GPU with the new text. The texture is the size of the object, and the bigger the texture, the slower this is. Your text object is huge (827x462) despite only needing to display a small bit of text in the top left; resize it smaller and it performs far faster and can get nearly 60 FPS here on a Nexus 5.

  There is not much we can do about this since this is the only way text can be rendered in WebGL mode other than using sprite font. If performance is critical then this is a reason to use sprite fonts instead.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  I think this is because iOS has buggy frames support. I've added the workaround we've used elsewhere to these templates for the next build, hopefully that will fix it.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  Node-webkit and Crosswalk are always a few versions behind Chrome, and WebRTC is a new feature, so it may take a few updates for both before it's working smoothly all round. Closing as not a bug.

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  • 25 Jun, 2014
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  How are you measuring latency?

  I don't think there's anything we can do anyway, since the delay must be in Chrome or possibly the Android OS. There is no delay on C2's side, it says to play audio right away, and it does play right away on all other platforms.