DiegoM's Forum Posts

  • It's to avoid unexpected problems.

    The layers bar was originally made to work with the layers of the current layout. Showing layers from other layouts and also being able to edit them normally will most certainly run into all kinds of subtle problems. Showing them and not allowing to edit them is a middle ground, so you can at least see if there are layers from another layout being shown in the current one.

    Global layer items have a context menu option to open the layout of the original global layer, so if you want to edit those layers, you can quickly find the layout they belong to.

    As for deleting the layers with a -1 index, I think that should be ok as in most cases once you make a layer global, you don't care too much about what it was showing previously.

  • The editor now shows you the sub layers of the original global layer. Those sub layers are grayed out because they don't belong to the current layout, so allowing them to be interacted with would likely have a lot of unexpected behaviors.

    The editor now also shows you any sub layers a layer might have, but are not being shown because the parent is a global layer and instead it is showing the global sub layers of the parent. Those are shown with the crossed out eye icon to indicate they are not visible. They are also given the -1 index to reflect how they would react at runtime if their index was to be queried using the LayerIndex expression.

    All of that was added because of this github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues/8532

    The main problem in that report was the editor was showing different layer indexes to the runtime when working with global sub layers.

    I guess this can be confusing if the layers that take the -1 index also have the same name as the original global layer's sub layers.

  • To answer the main question, no, the feature is not abandoned.

    We are always working on something to improve Construct, and we can't work on multiple things at the same time. Usually what happens is that periodically some part of Construct will be worked on and a few things will be fixed and/or added all in one go.

  • Are you using the latest stable release?

    Something like you are describing was fixed in a recent beta release. The problem was related to making image point changes immediately after loading a new image, that's why it seemed like it happened at random.

    You can give the beta release a spin and see if you still encounter the same problem doing what you do normally.

    If you don't usually use beta releases make sure to have backups of your project, just to be sure!

  • There is no built in way to do this, there isn't any browser API either, so anything you do will likely be imperfect.

    If I were to cobble something together I would probably look into a combo between the on movement trigger and a timer.

    Whenever the trigger takes place start a timer, if the trigger happens again before the timer completes, reset the timer and assume the mouse is moving. If the timer manages to complete before on movement is triggered again, the you can assume the mouse is not moving.

    You would need to try out different lengths of time to see what works for you.

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  • Rnamon

    I am not 100% sure on this, but I don't think C3 functions support the kind of meta programming your are describing.

    My suggestion would be to have functions that ADD and SUBSTRACT (possibly more operations) that receive two parameters, the attribute of your character they are modifying and the value.

    You would then make as many function calls as you have hats. Each hat would also need to have an instance variable indicating what attribute they modify and another saying by how much.

    The body of each function can then modify the corresponding attribute of your character and use the value accordingly.

    This would make it easy to later add more functions and different hats with different properties.

  • supergameweb.com

    If you take the event you showed before, and replace rgba with rgba255 it should work. Just tried it out myself.

  • Oh right! I also went to the docs to check, but I misread :P

    But I still don't understand the purpose of rgba() and rgbEx() with the values from 0-100. Not a single program I've ever used in my entire life did use 0-100 for setting RGB-colors. Except Construct. I guess it's easier to set something to 30% red, but that's such a specific thing I don't think I've ever needed that. Anyway, I'm glad there's still the variants that just take 0-255 values.

    I wasn't going to go into detail, because it seemed a bit off topic, but since you are mentioning it...

    The 0-255 range is a relic of the past which just refuses to die and it looks like it won't be dyeing any time soon.

    The 0% to 100% range makes a lot more sense conceptually, 0% is no color and 100% is all the color, every position in the middle is valid. This allows the notation to represent essentially an infinite amount of colors, where with 0 to 255 you have a workable, but in comparison very limited amount of values, because there are no fractional values.

    Using a single byte to represent a color channel was introduced at a time where using a 64 bit floating point value to do the same was impossible.

    I guess the main reason it is still used, is for backwards compatibility. There are some really old file formats floating around and they are still supported, so that means that new programs still need to understand that color information can be stored in individual bytes.

    You can also never underestimate the power of familiarity, there are a lot of people that will just not question that 255 is the maximum value a color channel can have. And so the range continues to be used. I am pretty sure that all popular image editing software uses the 0% - 100% range under the hood, but presents the legacy format in the UI.

    In Construct there really is no reason to support the 0 - 255 range, other than backwards compatibility and user familiarity with the format. It literally offers no benefits.

  • I see, I misunderstood what you were trying to do.

    To use the RGB values as they appear in the animations editor you should use the rgbEx255 expression or the rgba255 expression, these accept values in the 0-255 range.

    rgba and rgbEx accept values in the 0-1 range.

    If you are not interested in the alpha channel use the Ex variants, those only accept red, green and blue values.

  • Have you checked the luminosity slider at the bottom of the main color picker?

    If it's all the way to the left no matter what color you pick it will be black.

  • I think you are thinking about this the wrong way, because collisions won't take place in the middle of the loop, they either happen before or after, so you won't be able to stop the loop mid way.

    I think you want to do a few things:

    1. When a collision happens, stop all the tweens. This should stop all movement that is taking place.
    2. Check there is a collision before even starting the loop, if there is don't even start.

    It's very hard to figure out what is happening from looking at a screen shot, but I have a feeling that your continue variable doesn't have the value you want it to have, so every time the loop starts, new tweens are created.

    Just trying to help from glancing at the screen shot of your events, so don't take everything I write too seriously :)

  • Just realised what you are trying to do, I don't think that will ever work.

    If I understand correctly continue will be set to false when a tween finishes, but the for loop will always end before any of those tweens are completed.

    Perhaps it would be better for you to explain what you are trying to do before anyone can help.

  • It's hard to tell what is going on from the screenshot, what is setting the continue variable to false?

  • squale

    Can you file the issue in our bug tracker? It's better to submit problems over there since we look at it pretty often. Reports in the forums are more likely to get lost under new messages.

    github.com/Scirra/Construct-bugs/issues

  • I thought it was, sorry about that. Then you should use the Is Between Values condition, which will do what you are describing. You just need to provide the value you are testing and the lower and upper bounds of the check.

    Add conditions for each range you want to check and you should be good.