Jase00's Forum Posts

  • Put all your click-able objects into a family, then you can setup your events like:

    On click FAMILY

    Pick top instance of FAMILY

    You can find "pick top instance" within an object, like Sprite>Pick top/bottom, or Family>Pick top/bottom.

  • Do other webapps have same issue, I guess a comparable one to test could be gdevelop as that's web based.

    No other issues with network, downloads, websites?

    Can join online games fine?

    Speed tests reporting normal speeds?

    Tried different servers on the vpn to maybe bypass this issue (assuming you can pick various countries and such)?

    I did have a look online as I'm sure you have already done, very unusual and seeing repeated "clear cache" which of course you did early on. Hmm.

    I found another suggestion online, not sure how comfortable you'd be to try, nor can I advise exactly, but you could analyse your network traffic with Wireshark and see if your requests are malformed. It's tricky to explain further, not sure what you'd be looking for, or how would you know what traffic should look like if it is indeed malformed.

  • Hard to say but it's working over here, and judging by you trying 2 browsers and the error being 400 which is "bad client", I'll take random guesses you may already have tried. Maybe it loaded last cached data but then you saw red error in C3 due to not being able to fetch newest data for update, then you cleared cache and now it has no past data and the issue worsened.

    Antivirus software suddenly interfering, or any kind of software that helps with privacy.

    Extensions (doubt it unless you happen to use same ones on both chrome and edge).

    Do you use a vpn or a custom dns server, maybe those are affecting it.

    Make sure to restart computer after changes.

    Oh and, if on windows, open command prompt, type: ipconfig /flushdns

    Reboot after just in case but can always test right away.

  • It's tricky, I wouldn't have thought 20 objects would slow down with this For Each event.

    It does seem laid out as best as it can, as the "for each" needs to be there to individually check each Shooter against the family, which may be different for each shooter.

    Typically it's best to try and design game to be kinda "functional", meaning: Does your game really need to be checking alllll the time for all shooter objects to aquire a target? Or could this be lowered a lot more by including some conditions above the "for each" condition, such as "is onscreen" if you have a big layout with screen scrolling, or maybe designing a way to "disable" shooters that are too far away and therefore lighten the cpu usage of this for each loop.

    P.S. I see you post a few times asking for help so wanted to suggest: There's an unofficial Discord for Construct, with help section for both c2 and c3, tends to get a good mix of replies quite quickly and sometimes from many people giving their ideas and thoughts (depending on who recognises the issue and such!).

    discord.gg/construct-community-116497549237551109

  • Maybe there's confusion about the thread linked:, that thread is about nwjs, which is an EXE version of a html5 games, usually would find these to be distributed via steam - steam having a paid entry fee and someone who attempted to upload a malicious game would lose money and be banned for ever attempting that, never once heard of it happening, so that's the reassuring case for an EXE downloadable html5 game.

    If someone, even an adult, downloads an exe from a friend or unusual website, and they aren't familiar with computers, always used admin account, AND it happened to be an extremely new malicious method that Microsoft haven't seen before (Where Microsoft have dedicated team who are extremely vigilent about updating Windows defender regularly), then yeah they may have their computer compromised.

    A html5 game in the Web browser, like oosyrag mentions, is safe, a lot safer than an exe file, Web browsers have many manny protections in place, many restrictions (cannot run exe from html5 Web browser game).

  • Also a malicious exe would often be more dangerous when it has admin privileges (I.e a window will appear asking for the admin password for the computer before it runs). Of course there's occasional exploits found that could be malicious even without admin password, but as long as Windows is kept up-to-date, you're often safe.

    A child shouldn't be admin on a computer as a child could do some wild stuff like delete system files themselves and such.

  • You can, at least with nwjs!

    You add the nwjs plugin to your project, then can use 2 different actions, "Run file" or "Shell open".

    Note, you must export with nwjs to test this, or use the remote preview tool to avoid having to export (this tool can be found here: construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/construct-nw-js-desktop-app-131317 )

  • Lolol, excellent write up with visuals! Just wait until uglypenguin sees all this and just quits game dev for good.

    Honestly though we promise it is easy once you are familiar, but our descriptions and tarek2's visuals are to help comprehend it all.

    Ask away if unsure, also feel free to join the unofficial Construct 3 discord server if you want immediate feedback for little questions at all: discord.gg/construct-community-116497549237551109

  • Oh boy, using the Dictionary plugin is very useful for your case with a level editor!! I'll answer in great detail as I am also working on level editor stuff and it's enjoyable to make and think about! Grab a glass of water and regret ever asking for help!

    Dictionary

    Think of it like: Dictionary is very similar to Instance Variables. Dictionary is a list of "Keys" (Keys are like an Instance Variable's name) and a value that you choose what data you want to save, strings and numbers can be used. So yeah it's just like Instance Variables but with extra power, and keeps all this data in one place.

    So for example, in your project, lets use a Dictionary to store all the bits and pieces of data about the level such as the "Level_Name" and other data maybe like "Version" or "CreatedBy" depending on what you need.

    To store data in a Dictionary:

    1. Add a Dictionary, rename it to what you want like "DictMapData".
    2. Go to Event Sheet and Add new event.
    3. In the new event, add condition as a test like "On SPACE key pressed".
    4. Add action DictMapData>Add Key, then key name to "NameOfLevel", value to "TestMapLol"

    Can then add a Text object as a test, then add one more event to like "On G key pressed", then Set Text to DictMapData.Get("NameOfLevel")

    Now run the game, press SPACE, and yeah, text gets set to "TestMapLol" so we know the Dictionary has stored the name of the level, woo!

    Other Dictionary notes

    You can download this dictionary the same way as you have done for the Array, load the same way. It downloads all that data as 1 file, nice and tidy!

    Add hundreds of keys if you wish, it performs excellently! Could add keys like "Version", "CreatedBy", add more events to set/get data from TextInputs that the player types into and such.

    Could add other cool stuff, for example, with Date plugin added to your project, you could do action for Dictionary: Add key "DateOfLevelCreation" with value Date.Now.

    You can then set a Text object at any time to Date.ToDateString(Dictionary.Get("DateOfLevelCreation")) and this will display the creation date of the map to your players.

    Image files can technically be stored in the dictionary if you ever need that sorta thing (Maybe you use images for an icon of the map, or custom sprites/backgrounds) but I'd say it's preferable to keep images separate, because: In order to store the image, you need to convert the image into a value that can be stored in Dictionary which is either a string or number. There's a way to convert image into a string, known as Base64, by using the Cryptography plugin. But problem is, those strings are HUGE and don't wanna slow down Save/Load and player sees the game lag, or worse, there's so much image data that when you load it in all at once, it crashes the game. Maybe 1 or 2 small images are fine. To be fair, haven't tested it much, maybe its fine to add images to Dictionary, it is probably a good method for a Website-based game if that's what you're goal is.

    Saving big lists of items with an Array

    In a level editor, you'd have things that the player can endlessly spawn. Maybe it's ingame objects, coins, spikes. Maybe your TileMaps if there are more than 1. This is where things get more tricky as you have to deal with Arrays, but overall it will make a lot of sense once you use them long enough.

    Array is more or less a grid of data. 1D being a list, 2D being a grid, 3D being a...3D grid.

    When using the actions in an Array object, it can be a little confusing, like "Push" and such to add values - You can use these if you wish, but I will use an alternative method as I feel it's more "readable", using "Set Size Of Array" and "Set Value At".

    1D

    Basic list of data, an Array with size of 5x1x1 is essentially "A list of 5 bits of data I want to store". As Array's work with index numbers you write data to the Array at X=0, X=1, 2, 3, and 4. Maybe you write a shopping list with this: Set Array X=0 to "Bread", set Array X=1 to "Lemon", etc. Very basic type of Array.

    You might be able to use this for your TileMap objects if it's literally just the TileMap JSON data needed and no other data:

    1. Add new test event like "On A pressed".
    2. Add action Array>Set size to 0x1x1 (this empties the list so we can start adding)
    3. Subevent under "On A Pressed".
    4. On subevent, add "For Each - TileMap".
    5. On subevent, add action Array>SetSize to X= Self.Width+1 , Y=Self.Height, Z=SelfWidth
    6. Add another action Array>Set Value At X, X=Self.Width-1 , to value TileMap.AsJSON

    Done, so say you had 6 TileMap objects, and you press the A key, the result will be the Array reaching size of 6x1x1 , and each list item is the TileMap's JSON string.

    You can then load by making an event: Array>For Each X, then action: Create Object TileMap. Another action: TileMap>Load From JSON and type Array.At(Array.CurX) as CurX gets the Current "For each" index. This loop will check X=0, see the TileMap data, load it in, then the next part of the loop checks X=1, see the TileMap data, load it in, etc.

    2D

    Lets go to 2D Arrays, lets say size is 5x10x1, this can be thought of in two ways: Either "This is a list of 5 "groups" of data with 10 properties", or "This is an X and Y coordinate grid". In the case of saving a list of objects and data, we will think of it like "A list of 5 groups of data with 10 properties".

    A 2D Array is a good path to take. Lets assume we want to store 5 pieces of data per object. Your Array would start at size 0x5x1, as we have no object data stored yet (0), and we have 5 pieces of data we wanna store about the object (5).

    In your mind, or write this down, but you want to "map" each number. As we want to store 5 pieces of data, we need to decide what we want for each index from 0 to 4 (Seems strange it goes to "4" but think of it like index number 0 is actually storing data, so we still have 5 properties, but it just starts at index 0 and ends at index 4). So as a random example, I will plan that Y0 will be for the "NameOfObject", Y1 will be the XPosition, Y2 is YPosition, Y3 is Object's colour, etc.

    Follow similar events to the "1D" example as written above, but instead of "Set at X", you can use "Set at XY", then the X remains as "Self.Width-1", and the Y can manually be typed, lets say 0 because we want to write in the "NameOfObject" data, then set value to "TestObject" or "TileMap" or whatever. CopyPaste this "Set value at XY" action, edit, change the Y to 1, we planned earlier that 1 will mean "XPosition", so we can then set this value to TileMap.X. etc etc etc.

    The loading part is similar to 1D, too, we still only need to do a "For Each X" for the Array, but we can do extra stuff now in this creation event, so could edit the "Create Object TileMap" action to update the position correctly and set the X position to Array.At(Array.CurX,1) and Y position to Array.At(Array.CurX,2). Tada, this makes the TileMap load to it's correct position!

    I will skip 3D Arrays.

    Use both Array and Dictionary for readable and expandable level editor data

    Once you are VERY familiar with all of this, the ultimate wombo combo you could do is a combination of a 2D array AND Dictionary. Will go light on detail:

    You can add many Dictionarys, maybe you add them for each Level Editor object and use them as an alternative to Instance Variables, so each Enemy object gets it's own Dictionary and stores Health, Ammo, Type, Colour, and other customisable pieces of data.

    The benefit of this is: You could have your 2D Array be 0x2x1, and we will plan the Y=0 to be "TypeOfObject" and Y=1 to "DictionaryAsJSON". Then follow the example written in the 2D section above, but simply load this dictionary in for each level editor object with 1 action, and now you have an easy-to-use Dictionary and can get data from Key Names rather than "memorising/reading notes about the Array to remember what each Y index is supposed to mean", or else you may be like "Was index 12 the colour of the object? Was index 33 the angle of the object?"

    Download/Save/Load stuff

    I notice you use "Download" for the Array (and you would then use Download for the Dictionary), which is good for a game that's going to be uploaded onto a website or for Mobile devices. For desktop/EXE/Steam games, the "preferable" way would be using the FileSystem/NWJS/WebView plugin, letting you have a "Save to" window popup and such if needed, and also being able to write files directly to the player's computer without any popups (With "Download" the Dictionary data always goes to the player's C:/Downloads folder, but with these plugins for desktop games, the player can choose the location to save, or you can design you game to automatically save in any location on their computer).

    Hope this helps and good luck!

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  • Uhhh... Nope no clue at all!

    The one pattern I see is that Left is a positive number, right is negative. Down is positive, sooo up should be negative?

    Not sure I can think of solution or workaround other than... Literally using those numbers in your events, but not sure if these values are universal for all gamepads that behave like this, or if different gamepads use different values.

    Don't you just love technology?

  • Wow whaat!?

    Hopefully that's the answer, one of those axis might be the dpad. Again this is all just guesswork!

    I forget the expression wording but below is a possible test to try (but may need to write the correct gamepad.Blah parts):

    Have text object, every tick, set text to "" (so it's blank)

    Next event block:

    Do a For loop: For 0 to gamepad.axiscount

    Action: Append to text:

    loopindex & " = " & gamepad.axis(loopindex).

    This should give you a text object with a list of all 10 axis's values, so you can then see what all 10 do when you press buttons on your controller. If lucky, the dpad will make one of these react and you might find it's axis ID is 8 or something.

    Curious to know the results!

  • Yeah I remember this bug, it's existed back in C2, I recall Ashley responding about this and it wasn't feasible to be resolved.

    Though a recent topic was talking about the feature request of a different physics plugin, which... Hopefully may not have this issue. (EDIT2: just realised you commented on there already!)

    EDIT: Wow I found the post, 10 years ago!

    construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/closed-bugs-22/r173-physics-quotdisable-80955

  • Good progress on votes so far - mine was in January and got 12 votes, this liquid one was 4 days ago and already has 6 votes! Ofcourse yes doesn't guarantee this will be added even if highly voted, but gives me hope as physics stuff has been limiting me since C2 days.

  • Oh that's exactly what I wondered it might be!

    I'm not sure on solution but there's a chance it's being seen as an axis. You can test on your project by adding text object and set text to: gamepad.rawaxiscount(0) and this will tell you how many axis it detects. Normally you'd assume it would display this as 4, (left right up down, for left analogue stick and right analogue stick), maybe you will get 6 as result.

  • Agreed! This liquid physics plugin would also solve another feature request regarding collision filtering with physics, which is not possible currently. 2 birds with 1 stone!... 1 very big stone.

    github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/68