citron2010's Forum Posts

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 6 May, 2026
  • Quote

  It has a REST API so you can query that using Construct's AJAX plugin.

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 1

  • 5 May, 2026
  • Quote

  Not 100% sure, but don't think you can change this - it's what the OS decides, but you can confirm support by evaluating the "Desktop features supported" expression

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 1

  • 1 May, 2026
  • Quote

  I've been using ChatGPT for a while - not to try getting it to code for me but to teach me how to do something. Also been using Gemini more recently.

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 1 May, 2026
  • Quote

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues/9078

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues/9076

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 1

  • 22 Apr, 2026
  • Quote

  affectThisThing->whenThisHappens->byDoingThisThing. I don't really understand, but I think I do a little bit. Thank you.

  You just need to remember that, if an event has no conditions or triggers, it will run every tick - it's the "tick" that effectively triggers the event

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 22 Apr, 2026
  • Quote

  "On any touch" only triggers when you start the touch

  Then Func_Squish is only called if Touch Is touching Fam_spr

  So the code in the function only runs once per touch

  "Every tick" does nothing - you can just delete it

  Your squishFactor will still be randomised every time the function is called

  Note that you NEVER actually need "Every tick"! If the trigger/condition column is empty, the actions will always run every tick.

  Events can either be "Conditions" which are checked every tick or "Triggers" which only fire when something happens.

  More details here:

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/events/how-events-work

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 21 Apr, 2026
  • Quote

  There's a few things:

  For some reason that I don't understand, "Touch - Is touching Fam_spr" picks all the spr's rather than just the one that being touched.

  To solve that, replace Fam_spr with spr

  But that still doesn't work because the function resets the picking list and will pick all spr's again. To solve that, edit the function and enable "copy picked" - this will copy the list of spr's picked in the event that calls the function and pass it to the function.

  Also, you don't need "Every tick" in that function.

• Try Construct 3

  Develop games in your browser. Powerful, performant & highly capable.

  Try Now Construct 3 users don't see these ads
• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 21 Apr, 2026
  • Quote

  I had a brief discussion with ChatGPT about this a while ago and came to the conclusion that it would be more effort to implement than I was willing to put it.

  It suggested three approaches:

  1. Perceptual hashing
  2. Convoluted neural network (Compute a single vector for each image using a small CNN/ViT, then compare with cosine similarity.)
  3. LPIPS (Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity)

  Make of that what you will!

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 20 Apr, 2026
  • Quote

  If you look in the inspector, you'll notice that FLYINGENEMY's timer never gets above zero - that's because you're triggering every tick if there's no line of sight so it just keeps resetting. An easy way to fix is by adding a "Trigger once while true" condition to the NOT LOS condition.

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 1

  • 18 Apr, 2026
  • Quote

  Seems to be working in this test project:

  drive.google.com/file/d/1xauxzshCpUKnAOHDBouIMEqpDhkr5R-D/view

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 1

  • 10 Apr, 2026
  • Quote

  There’s the “Is portrait/landscape” condition in the browser plugin. You’d just need to check it every tick.

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 1 Apr, 2026
  • Quote

  I've just finished a prototype for a project that does similar so thought I'd put all my recently acquired knowledge to work and make this sample project:

  drive.google.com/file/d/1yFU4VRNWxOfEVbSs5vkE3vu-0ImHsLY7/view

  Essentially, it checks local storage for a picture and if it exists, loads it into a sprite then resizes/repositions it. If you click the picture it opens a file chooser to select a picture - in which case it loads it into the sprite and also saves it. The one gotcha is that to save a picture to local storage requires that the picture be in a binary data object which you can't populate directly from the file chooser. Instead you make an AJAX request to the file chooser to populate the binary object - then you can write it to local storage.

  My project's a little more complex and also involves saving pictures to and loading from a remote server, saving them to local storage for off-line use, caching previous/next pictures in memory to speed up loading when a user switches between pictures plus cropping of photos uploaded via the file chooser before sending them to the remote server for storage - so feel free to pick my brains if you need anything more!

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 31 Mar, 2026
  • Quote

  Try this:

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/interface/animations-editor

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 2

  • 24 Mar, 2026
  • Quote

  There’s a better online generator here:

  https://creativist.studio/css-neumorphism-generator/

  And their CSS TOOLBOX menu has some other generators you might find inspiring.

• • citron2010
  • 
  • • Joined 12 Mar, 2014
    • 
    • 32 topics • 291 posts
  • 1

  • 24 Mar, 2026
  • Quote

  Thanks for adding toggle support!

  New/neo morphism is based around the concept that elements are "made" of the same material as their background (so typically the same colour) and are either extruded or intruded - and shadows are used to show this effect.

  Here's a sample from Wikipedia:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neumorphism#/media/File:Neumorphism-fixed.jpg

  And here's an online generator - notice that the box-shadow in the generated code has two shadows defined - typically a dark one and a light one.

  https://neumorphism.io/#e0e0e0