oosyrag's Forum Posts

  • Not sure if it will help in your situation specifically, but I find in general when building an animation system it helps to keep track of "animation state" in a variable, and set animations based on that variable. This will prevent issues occurring from attempting to set different animations from different events and conditions in one tick. The variable can only be one thing at a time, so only one "set animation" action can run per tick.

  • The system unload action are for memory management and clearing textures that are not currently in use from vram. As started in the manual, this can only be done of there are no instances of the object remaining on the screen and on the tick after the last instance had been destroyed.

    If the object is recreated after being destroyed and unloaded, it will load up the whatever object textures it had before from memory (not vram), including animation frames that were loaded from url before.

    The way to clear the frames, as I mentioned before, is to use the load image from url again, loading an empty image, to overwrite and replace whatever you had previously loaded.

    What is a guess is what you have already set up, which is unclear to me, so sorry if I misunderstood your question, which I understood to be "How do I clear the frames loaded with a URL?"

    Here's an example dropbox.com/s/j2nm4ocxe0w1163/memorymanagementexample.c3p

  • The method I normally use is to put play sound actions into a sub event that checks if a mute sound variable is true or not before running.

  • Destroying a properly synced object on the host should destroy it for the peers as well. Are you able to recreate this in a minimal project? Could be a bug.

    The other reason would be that you actually had two copies of the same obect overlapping each other. The synced one gets destroyed and leaves the other. The peer should destroy any "orphan" synced objects that already exist on the layout upon joining as a peer.

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  • Overwrite it with another load sprite from url action. Can be an updated sprite, or a blank one.

  • Use & in the middle.

    "String"&expression

  • Check out the infinite runner example. editor.construct.net

    Replace the solid tiled background object with a 3dshape object.

    You'll need to adjust the numbers a little bit, since the 3dshape object's origin is always in the center, and the tiled background is set to top left.

  • Use the message system for strings.

    Also in general, consider if something really needs to be synced or not. Often if an instance variable never changes or changes very rarely, it is more suitable to use messages, even for number values. Syncing is best reserved for values that need to be updated pretty much constantly and for values that can take advantage of interpolation.

  • Have the peers send a message to the host.

    Instead of creating the peer object upon peer joining, you can do it on message received instead, with the selection in the message. So on message received, the host will create the player object with the correct peerid and team instance variables with the data available from the message. This will then get synced along with the instance variables to each peer.

  • Oops sorry I thought I replied to this but I guess I didn't hit post. Glad you figured it out, but for the duplicate object issue, the peers should delete the original object placed manually on the layout upon connecting and confirming peer status. Only the host will keep/adopt the original object and sync it to the peers, then create additional synced objects for each peer if necessary.

  • A synced variable must be set by the host, not the peer. Syncing is one way, the host does not receive any data from syncing.

    Also, the peers' character should not exist until after joining the room, the host needs to create it for the peer. The host can then assign the instances variable upon creation. This will allow both the player character and instance variables to be synced to all peers.

  • It's a binary data expression.

    GetBase64

    Return the entire contents of the data buffer encoded as a base64 string. This is useful when binary data must be stored in a text-based format like JSON.

    To load an image into the binary data object, use the AJAX Set response binary action along with the request url action. The url can be acquired from the canvas plugin's SavedImageURL expression.

  • I'm not familiar with the process, but everything you need should be in the binary data object. The canvas object also does have the SavedImageURL expression you can get the canvas contents from in conjunction with the Save Image action.

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/binary-data

  • Whatever fits your workflow most comfortably.

    Personally I don't bother with "exact fit" hitboxes, so creating a rectangular box in Construct's editor is no problem for me. For that matter, I only ever have to make one since it's just a rectangle and I can shape and size it during runtime, and they all serve the same purpose.

    If you want to paint exact hitboxes, it might be more comfortable to do so with your image editor of choice, with the ability to use layers, transparencies, brushes, and bulk export options. Again, I'd say that this isn't standard practice, and is probably going to cause more problems and headaches than it's worth...

  • I thought separate objects were also combined into sprite sheets automatically? And large animations are split up into multiple sprite sheets?

    I'm not really familiar with what goes on under the hood, but my understanding was that Construct optimized sprite sheeting, so I never really worried about it.

    One memory consideration though, as 3000 is quite a significant number, is that will all 3000 unique images always be necessary on any given layout? If your gameplay only calls for a portion of them to be seen at any given time/playthrough, you might want to consider a system loading them in on demand, or separate them out by layout.