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  • Maybe you're better off writing a custom ball movement? As you mentioned, if you're always overriding the velocity, when it bounces it's still trying to go in the old direction, and you need to update the variables.

    Adding set x/y component won't magically fix this, because the action will just call set angle of motion and set speed for you, with the math. So it'll work exactly like it does with your current method.

  • Oops. I'll try and sort that out.

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  • Man... yeah... surely a difficulty setting wouldn't be out of place?

    No crashes here, but send over the cap and I'll run it through the debugger a couple of times.

  • If you could make an option (preferably in the picture editor) that allows you to set image's export quality (ie. png, jpeg, and in case of jpeg allows you to set it's export quality)

    The .cap file stores uncompressed data, but when you export, all images are compressed as lossless PNGs. So you should get pretty good filesizes already

  • Ah, you shouldn't be able to add different object types to a family. Families all have to be the same type of plugin (ie. all sprites, all text). You shouldn't be allowed to add text and sprite to a family - that's why it messes up and crashes.

  • Wooeeeeeeeoooooooeeeeoooooooo flamewar alert!

    Cheez, you were not justified in your aggressive tone. These people are kind enough to type up replies with suggestions trying to help you, so you don't need to go biting the hand that feeds. If you disagree, my forum, my rules. And deadeye, there was no need to come back with counterinsults. That will only make things worse.

    Politeness, guys. It's really simple.

    Anyways, lock on this one (Cheez said they would attempt it by hand).

  • Haha, love Futurama Yes that's a good idea - you can use the dumb aim for easy mode, and linear aim for hard mode to make the enemies more intelligent. I'm all in favour of ways to make games harder via gameplay rather than spamming you with more enemies.

  • Angles in Construct work as bearings, with 0 degrees pointing along the X axis and incrementing clockwise. Going by the diagram above, you can find the bearing from B->A using angle(B.X, B.Y, A.X, A.Y) and B-C with angle(B.X, B.Y, A.X, A.Y). However, to get the angle between the two bearings is a bit trickier - you can't just subtract them (sometimes you'll get something like 0 and 270 - the difference is clearly 90 degrees, not 270 as you'd get by subtraction). This requires some funky math which would be a fair bit easier to add as built in expressions to Construct. I'll see if I can add something like that for the next build.

    As deadeye said, what's the end result you want? There might be an easier way if its for a game or something.

    Cheez: lay off the insults. People are trying to help you.

  • OK, I'll add an aliased/antialiased text mode for next build.

  • What's wrong with them?

  • Couldn't you just use 'Rotate toward angle' and put in the linearaim expression? Then it will always rotate toward where it needs to aim to hit the target.

  • No. There needs to be a separate encryption plugin for this.

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