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  • I don't think we can or should fix this.

    Even in Classic, using animated sprites as your platform object is notorious for causing unintended problems. The usual thing to do is have an invisible solid square representing the player, which does not animate, and you position your animating player on top. Otherwise, you end up with lots of complicated situations like: you're standing next to a wall, the animation frame changes, and now part of your character is embedded within the wall. This kicks off Construct's 'push out of solid' code, which usually works but sometimes doesn't do quite what you wanted (your player may teleport a short distance or appear to "glitch").

    So even if we fixed this, you're still going to have problems if you use the animated sprite with a platform movement. For the record, 'Is on floor' works by pushing the player down 1 pixel and seeing if it overlaps a solid there, so if your player's bottom edge raises it won't count as on the floor any more. (If you could change hot spots, you could also fix it by having the hot spot at the bottom-middle edge.)

    So I think this should be resolved "won't fix".

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  • The events and sprite display parts of the engine are very reliable. Unless you've turned up a new bug, I would guess they're working just fine. So I guess it's a problem in your events.

  • Thanks for the feedback, I've made some changes for the next build!

    Multitouch input is sort of half-supported, I've been meaning to fix it. Obviously the current x/y of touch can only return one position. However, if you use conditions like "On object touched" and "Is touching object", those support multitouch OK.

  • If some scriptkiddies may hack the gravatar server, they got mail, user and pw for many users at many sites.

    That's true of any site, not just Gravatar, if you use the same username/password/email combo. Personally I use KeePass to store randomly generated passwords for each website I use, all locked by a single long password which I simply remember and don't have written down anywhere.

  • No, solid things are just solid. There's no anti-solid.

  • A common approach is to use invisible solid sprites as barriers at the edge of where you want the player to be able to move.

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  • Don't make the grass or road solid! It works fine if you remove the Solid behavior from them. 'Solid' means you cannot move inside or through it at all. Think of a solid thing like a rock. If the grass is solid, it's like starting your car embedded in a giant rock. Of course you can't move anywhere! You should only use it on tyres, barriers and other objects that you can bump in to.

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