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  • I really can't say. It sounds like something unique in your setup is preventing Construct from running, because it works for everyone else. All I can think of to do is try redownloading it (in case the file was corrupt), try other older builds (see if theyre the same), or to as a last resort download the source and run it through the debugger to see what really is happening. That's a lot to ask of a non-programmer though...

  • It's correct it counts as two objects: one object is the object itself, and the behavior counts as another object (because the runtime actually instances an object for the behavior). I guess I could exclude behaviors from the count if you think that's useful?

  • I have no idea why this would happen. Has it always done it?

    Did you run the entire installer?

  • Same as erase, but with swapped transparency/opaqueness.

  • What's your video hardware and system specs?

  • Wouldn't it be just as easy/better to have TimeDelta enabled by default in the way the events work?

    No, this is not possible. Consider this, to make a sprite rotate 360 degrees every second:

    + Always

    -> Rotate sprite 360 * Timedelta degrees clockwise

    Why not make the 'Rotate clockwise' action automatically multiply its parameter by TimeDelta? Because if you call it one-off, this messes everything else up:

    + Upon pressing spacebar

    -> Rotate sprite 90 degrees clockwise

    Here, if you hit spacebar four times, the sprite makes a complete rotation. If you automatically tried to apply timedelta as above, it would only rotate a few degrees... that's not what you'd expect to happen!

    [quote:1jxbj8rr]one time I tried, Construct gave me some sort of runtime error when I tried to test my game out

    Did you report this bug?

  • I have to say - I personally would much rather code a game to allow for the small variations TimeDelta produces than override or avoid using TimeDelta at all. Not using TimeDelta will cause you problems, period. And possibly problems worse than the one you're trying to fix.

    Deadeye: I cannot imagine how varying framerates and timedelta would cause large variations (ie. a "mile"). That can't be right. Can you reproduce an example where the variation is that significant?

    If your game is a pixel retro platformer consisting of a player who can jump exactly 32 pixels high, running around a level of blocks exactly 32 pixels high, of course timedelta will cause variations. Sometimes you'll make it, sometimes you wont. The correct solution here is to make the blocks 25 pixels high or so, so you have a chance to clear them! If you turn TimeDelta off or override it, you either end up with V-Sync off and horribly torn up display (and highly dubious gameplay speed on low end systems), or have your game run twice as fast on one computer as another (ridiculously unfair on players).

    Design your game to take in to account variations. Not using Timedelta has its own serious problems.

  • That's a very vague definition. You can't just bolt on 'intelligent' movement in a generic way. What exactly are you after?

  • Um... what would it do?

  • I only get about 330fps without even spawning anything; that's not very good for my 8800 GT, are you using any blur effects or motion blur? I can't see anything obvious that would slow down the graphics that much.

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  • Thanks for the kind words

    (By the way, is there a variable for application path?)

    Have a look at AppPath.

    [quote:3raylbnu]When I last left Construct, you guys were just beginning to implement Python. Has it become the dominant way to write games for it now?

    Quite the opposite... Python is currently broken, and isn't working at all We're hoping to fix it in the next build. Once it's working again we're not going to leave either scripting or events behind; scripting is deliberately designed to work in tandem with events (eg. for processing complex expressions or intensive loops and algorithms that are difficult to express in events). In the meanwhile, we've still been developing the eventing engine, such as ELSE (and if/else if/else if chains), OR, advanced functions, subevents, for-each/for-each ordered/one-line loops and so on.

    I don't think anyone's managed to make a game entirely out of Python yet, it would be interesting to see how that works out. But Construct is definitely still centered around the event sheet editor.

  • Can you post a .cap file with the problem?

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