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  • Also, muur

    I originally came from gamemaker and kept wanting to know about using scripting, because in game maker that's the only way to anything serious. Construct is not like that. Users have made everything from procedurally bone animated characters to 3d lighting and physics(neither is a built in feature) only using events, with no python. Quazi made a 3d game where you can use an in game editor to custom skin your character and save and load the skins. Definitely try eventing, it's much quicker(quicker to create stuff, it runs about the same speed) to use than python, and simpler, but unlike gamemaker and some other point and click gamemaking apps, its actually superpowerful. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you want to give some examples of things you'd like to do, I and other users can tell you whether its worth it to script it.

    And welcome to scirra

  • yeah, hey karsh, didn't mean to attack you by proxy. I actually own gm as well.

    on a side note, and this isn't just my bias. the scirra cog is the coolest looking one, especially since maryjane maryjane'd it up

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  • lucid: as the original post says, the HTML5 exporter and all its plugins will be open source. Third party exporters and plugins will be allowed, either free or commercial, regardless of whether or not they're on an official "exchange".

    awesome, thank you. missed that part

    I'm ready to preorder, btw, just so you know there are some people who will.

    and since I'm already posting about something else, I'd like to add my voice to the EXE!!! crowd

  • oh yeah, in addition to my last questions:

    will unofficial exporters be allowed?

    and

    will the plugins and/or exporters be open-source since the ide is the thing sold now

    I've got one more:

    will commercial plugins still be allowed if sold outside the plugin exchange?

  • thanks for the response guys...

    also, one more thing. any idea yet what this means as far as open sourcing exporters and plugins and/or allowing unofficial exporters to be made?

  • Hey ash and gull, I don't want to sound like a nag screen, but what do you think of the nonofficial plugin revenue sharing thing in addition. I don't think you've voiced an opinion either way yet. It will give you a more constant stream of income. The larger the community, the more plugins made, AND the more plugins bought, so it'll be another revenue stream. Plugin devs could still have the option to not use the official plugin shop, so it wouldn't be a restrictive thing. They would just have that option of extra exposure and free hosting, and placement on the ranking/download list.

    This would help you make more money off of users who are unable or unwilling to pay for either license model. And once again to make more money off the people who bought license in between their 2 year things. And it isn't evil, because you're not restricting users from any official features

  • I've never used the camera plugin beyond watching the demo. So this is sortof a shot in the dark, I recall seeing a demo for camera room transitions like old LOZ(I think it was from the plugin). This might have been accomplished with a momentary pause of the timer which would freeze everything happening pretty much. Try manually setting system timescale to the normal rate at evry tick. If my guess is correct, and the plugin is designed to affect timescaling at the beginning of the tick it might fix it, at the expense of making the room transition slightly less cool

  • progress bars are windows controls which overall just don't work very well in construct. it's usually best to make your own versions of them

  • yeah. marketing:)

  • Both CS2 and GM has thier plus and minus points , So i cannot say which is better at the moment.Yes CS2 and CS are remarkable apps,But if you have both GM and CS then you can do so much more.

    Im not a Pro Game Maker user,I think it's silly to compare two very different apps.And seeing the positive response i got on thier forum's about Construct . It's unfair to diss thier app.

    i was just having a little fun, and cheerleading for my winning team. also, although I haven't tried gm8, I owned gm7. I disagree with most of what you said. GM was extremely slow, and useless without scripting, and I also think they are not very different apps. They are meant to do the same thing. Just one is much better at it. I don't want to derail the thread. but just my 2 cents

  • hi gullanian.

    we were having a real shortage of red names, lately, so this should do us some good

  • I haven't had the chance to read all of this or try it, but thanks for sharing, this is very useful

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