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  • So try switching to low quality fullscreen mode instead.

  • To fully remove an object, delete it from the Project Bar. Note this will delete any events using it, so first you'll probably want to add the Local Storage plugin (which was introduced to replace Web Storage), move all your events to using that instead, then delete the Web Storage plugin.

    FYI Web Storage was replaced with Local Storage back in 2015, so it must be a pretty old project!

  • The C3 runtime always uses high DPI display mode. If you want to render at a lower resolution than the display canvas, use low-quality fullscreen mode. Turning off high DPI was essentially an inconsistent device-specific way to get low-quality fullscreen mode.

  • AFAIK that workaround is correct. We used it ourselves for Construct's debugger and it solved the problem. So there must be something else about your case that is breaking it. Unfortunately I could not say what that is. iframes aren't specific to Construct, maybe you could ask on another site like StackOverflow.

  • If it works, it works. It means if you change any of the existing properties in the layout, newly created objects will also get changed values. Sometimes that's what you want, other times not. The only unpredictability is if you have multiple instances in the layout with different properties; in that case Construct will pick one of them as the one to copy from (and deleting instances or changing properties may or may not change the values a newly created instance gets). However it's common that all the objects in the layout have identical properties, so it doesn't make a difference.

    Maybe calling it "safe" or "unsafe" is the wrong term, it's just a game design point really. In general this approach seems good enough to not unexpectedly cause values to change as you work. Even if they do change, you just need to add some actions to set the values you want for newly created objects and it works around it. So it seems like a pretty minor point.

  • There's fetchLocalFileViaCordovaAsText(filename, onSuccess, onError) and fetchLocalFileViaCordovaAsArrayBuffer(filename, onSuccess, onError) which IIRC are pretty much equivalents (although the latter returning an ArrayBuffer instead of Blob). Those also only work in Cordova mode so you have to route the requests to those methods yourself in Cordova mode. In the C3 runtime AssetManager simplifies it since you can just always use it in all modes.

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  • lucid - in Cordova apps generally any XMLHttpRequest/fetch to local files fails due to (unnecessarily applied) security restrictions. You have to route requests through the runtime, where it handles all the necessary workarounds. In the C3 runtime you can just do everything with AssetManager and it handles this for you transparently.

  • The question can't really be answered because the term "draw call" is very vague. Drawing involves calls through multiple layers of the rendering stack, which could mean any of:

    • Number of calls to the SDK Draw() method
    • Number of calls to the internal WebGLRenderer
    • Number of batch jobs executed in the WebGLRenderer
    • Number of actual WebGL calls made

    The numbers will be completely different for all four cases. Additionally, at some levels a draw call is extremely cheap (e.g. a redundant call to WebGLRenderer), and others are comparatively expensive (e.g. an actual WebGL call), so "100 draw calls" can involve either almost no work at all, or a relatively large amount of work. So it's not really a useful thing to talk about.

    That's why Construct only measures the time spent on all draw calls. It measures all of the above - the entire CPU time spent issuing draw calls.

  • Answer your own performance questions with measurements

    If you're concerned about tilemap performance, by far the biggest factor is the fact the C3 runtime has an incredibly faster tilemap rendering approach. It's something like 40x faster.

  • IIRC Construct doesn't show you the number of draw calls anywhere - just the time taken for all draw calls. So what exactly does the answer affect?

  • Serendipitously, you'll be able to use the full version of Construct 3 during the Global Game Jam 2019 from January 24th-28th.

  • It looks like this is actually a bug in the C3 runtime when using spaces in web font names. I've fixed it for the next release. In the mean time rename the web font to not have any spaces and it should work again.

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