I have a 360 controller, but it's wireless. And I don't have a wireless receiver. So, uh... why am I posting here?

Your Else is clashing with your Or's. Do this instead:

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Also, you don't need several "On start of layout" events... just one per event sheet will do.

why are you using a tiled background for these tiles which you dont actually want to tile at all?

Well, because sometimes you want to have an still image with no animation and doesn't need any special hotspots or image points or other features that a sprite has.

I mean, should we be using sprites in this case?

It doesn't actually say anywhere in the interface - "Sprite" - when you select a sprite, or whatever.

Ah, good point. Perhaps there should be a "Type" field in the Common properties. Sounds like a feature request to me

Edit:

Oops! I read your post wrong

Edit 2:

Oops! I gave the wrong answer to the right question

It's because Tiled Backgrounds don't have any "Appearance" settings in the properties.

On "Pause" pressed - System: Set Time Scale to 0

That works. Then I want to set the Time back to 1 if I hit "Pause" again. So my thought was:

On "Pause" pressed, Timer is equal to 0 - System: Set Time Scale to 1

I guess my thought process is wrong in that case, right?

You're changing your TimeScale from 1 to 0 and back to 1 in the same tick. Use Else:

+On "Pause" pressed
  +TimeScale is equal to 1
     ->Set TimeScale to 0
  +Else
     ->Set TimeScale to 1
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As for this...

12) It'd be cool if we could set the runtime to run at a zoom level that we could set.

Say, we create a game for 720p (1280x720) and set the runtime zoom level to 50%: The runtime preview would be displayed at 640x360.

You already can do that. "Set display resolution" and "Set zoom" in the System actions.

its because of the antialiasing created when you zoom in

There's no zoom in this .cap, though...

Wow, I would have never thought to look for that.

Whoa, that was weird. I just caught the tail end of it though, looks like it's fixed now. I had just enough time to search for "hello" and every page was harmful. Then I searched for "Scirra" and it stopped doing it.

Or... maybe that fixed it

Uh... what? It shouldn't, it just has Bullet behavior on it, nothing special. The speed is set to 50. It should take a couple of seconds to cross the gap, not a couple of seconds per pixel...

It's working fine for me. And Rich and Sslaxx both tested it and said everything looked fine. Is that happening for anyone else?

Are you ready?

And the next lesson is ready, too!

• [url=http://www.scirra.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2154
  Creating two more advanced custom controls for swimming and climbing ladders.

The last one was a piece of cake. This one gets a little more complicated. There's nothing really all that new, it's just more of the same, using all the basic ideas learned from prior lessons. Just, you know, taking it to the next step, so to speak.

Oh, and for anyone that cares, I had to redo all the previous lessons to correct a mistake (that I had no knowledge of until yesterday) so if you want to, go ahead and re-download them. It's not really necessary, though... it just has to do with renaming your controls. Short answer: Don't rename the default controls if you're using a behavior that uses controls for input.

Also, I'll get those text files for the signs up some time soon.