what they are saying is that setting the color filer to white, is like turning off the color filter

i apologize ahead of time for the walls of text, but its hard to see paragraphs on my phone.

i have 2 really awesome techniques that work for unmotivated people

ok, for starters, i'm not one of these fake unmotivated people who thinks they have a special trick, but doesnt really know what its like to be truly lazy, and easily distracted. i'm the most unmotivated person in the universe. i mean, i'm 29 with kids, and sometimes my bedroom has clothes all over the floor, and random papers on every desk and flat surface accumulating for weeks without me building up the motivation to fix it.

also, between having kids, and an 11 hour a day job(including driving), i also feel like i have no time for anything.

the two techniques i use are the 2 minute miracle, and breaking things into steps. ill say the 2 minute miracle first, in case youre not motivated enough to get through them both. each will work on its own,, but combined, they really can turn your whole getting nothing done thing around.

the 2 minute miracle is simply this. decide a time you are going to do something, or a general time frame. its best if its right before you would normally sit down and waste sometime doing something uselesss, but enjoyable, like play video games, or read random stuff on the web.

at that time, before you are allowed to do that, devote 120 seconds to whatever it is you need to get done. 2 minutes, thats it. after that you allow yourself any timewasting fun you wsnt. you can play games, you can take a nap, you can look at beautiful peopl, and do what it is people do when they look at beautiful people on tbe net. the miracle is that you will almost always find yourself working passed the two minutes once you get yourself started. if you dont however, dont sweat it. dont punish yourself in your mind. be glad you spent 2 diligent minutes, and try again the next day. try it for a week and get back to me... when youre hesitant to do your two minutes, remind yourself, you can do whatever you want in 120 seconds. youll be amazed how much this can change your life.

the next technique is breaking things into steps...now to be honest i think the first time i got thiss to work, the actual breaking into steps was done in a 2 minute miracle. all this is, is writing down everything you have to do in a large project, in broad terms, like, draw characters, make fighting events work, etc. then break it down into further steps, like if you have 20 characters to draw, break it down into each character, and if they are bones based characters, you cna even break it down into individual limbs. write them down, so you can cross them out, or put em in notepad, save it, and erase the ones you finish.like i said, you can do just this activity as your first set of 2 minute miracles... its not important to break everything down into each tiny step, just into steps you can picture yourself accomplishing in one sitting, also, its important to try to get as many " next" steps in as you can, meaning, things you dont have to finish other steps for before you can start on them...

now when you sit down to do something, instead of being overwhelmed by this huge project, you can decide on a single step your in the mood for, or one you dont mind doing at the time. also put down, " break next section into steps" down everytime you havent finished breaking down your whole project, or youll find yourself forgetting how you got so far, and back to being overwhelmed again when you finish the steps you wrote...it also makes for an easy activity to choose on a particularly lazy day.

the two minute miracle will also help you learn to sit down and get started quickly, even if at first you usually waste your 2 minutess being distracted. combined with having a list of things to get started on,, like i said, youll be amazed.

this is a thread for procrastinators, lazy people, and people with no drive, or people formerly any of the former.

please share, not your sob stories, but anything that has ever worked for you to fix your problem. maybe a motivational fix that you forgot about, but helped you see something through to completion. please no "just do it, you gotta push yourself" type comments. i have some techniques that worked really well for me for a while, but my break is almost over so i'll post those later. [edit: added it to this post now]

i know i said no sob stories...but go ahead and sob, sometimes it helps to see someone elsewho you assumed was motivated admit they struggle as well.

I'm adding my reply here, I meant for it to be in the original post anyway, I just didn't have time:

i apologize ahead of time for the walls of text, but its hard to see paragraphs on my phone.

i have 2 really awesome techniques that work for unmotivated people

ok, for starters, i'm not one of these fake unmotivated people who thinks they have a special trick, but doesnt really know what its like to be truly lazy, and easily distracted. i'm the most unmotivated person in the universe. i mean, i'm 29 with kids, and sometimes my bedroom has clothes all over the floor, and random papers on every desk and flat surface accumulating for weeks without me building up the motivation to fix it.

also, between having kids, and an 11 hour a day job(including driving), i also feel like i have no time for anything.

the two techniques i use are the 2 minute miracle, and breaking things into steps. ill say the 2 minute miracle first, in case youre not motivated enough to get through them both. each will work on its own,, but combined, they really can turn your whole getting nothing done thing around.

the 2 minute miracle is simply this. decide a time you are going to do something, or a general time frame. its best if its right before you would normally sit down and waste sometime doing something uselesss, but enjoyable, like play video games, or read random stuff on the web.

at that time, before you are allowed to do that, devote 120 seconds to whatever it is you need to get done. 2 minutes, thats it. after that you allow yourself any timewasting fun you wsnt. you can play games, you can take a nap, you can look at beautiful peopl, and do what it is people do when they look at beautiful people on tbe net. the miracle is that you will almost always find yourself working passed the two minutes once you get yourself started. if you dont however, dont sweat it. dont punish yourself in your mind. be glad you spent 2 diligent minutes, and try again the next day. try it for a week and get back to me... when youre hesitant to do your two minutes, remind yourself, you can do whatever you want in 120 seconds. youll be amazed how much this can change your life.

the next technique is breaking things into steps...now to be honest i think the first time i got thiss to work, the actual breaking into steps was done in a 2 minute miracle. all this is, is writing down everything you have to do in a large project, in broad terms, like, draw characters, make fighting events work, etc. then break it down into further steps, like if you have 20 characters to draw, break it down into each character, and if they are bones based characters, you cna even break it down into individual limbs. write them down, so you can cross them out, or put em in notepad, save it, and erase the ones you finish.like i said, you can do just this activity as your first set of 2 minute miracles... its not important to break everything down into each tiny step, just into steps you can picture yourself accomplishing in one sitting, also, its important to try to get as many " next" steps in as you can, meaning, things you dont have to finish other steps for before you can start on them...

now when you sit down to do something, instead of being overwhelmed by this huge project, you can decide on a single step your in the mood for, or one you dont mind doing at the time. also put down, " break next section into steps" down everytime you havent finished breaking down your whole project, or youll find yourself forgetting how you got so far, and back to being overwhelmed again when you finish the steps you wrote...it also makes for an easy activity to choose on a particularly lazy day.

the two minute miracle will also help you learn to sit down and get started quickly, even if at first you usually waste your 2 minutess being distracted. combined with having a list of things to get started on,, like i said, youll be amazed.

he means to put invisible objects along the sides of the snaky road, and make those solid, so they could outline where you needed it to be solid.

alternatively, you could use custom collision masks

oh god, i haven't downloaded this, and its probably illegal in 200 different countries if i do. my only question is...

why?

as in...why'd he mix the ****** ladies with the real women?

they both take away from the appeal of the other when viewed together

I haven't downloaded either, I don't see why it'd be illegal, though

no, im pretty sure thats what he meant pixel. welcome to construct, triplehex.

unfortunately, there is no way to break a "for each" loop. you just have to make a global variable as he said. set it to 0 before the loop.set it to 1 as part of the event's actions if a sprite triggers the condition and have the condition include a check to see if the global variable is equal to 0 as part of the conditions to trigger the loop

it has to be a separate event, not a condition in the same event

im not at home to check out the problem

but as i stated in the original post

there is something wrong with construct ui buttons. this isnt just with my plugin, but if you press a button, it disables all controls.. if you replace those buttons with sprites, or some other method, this wont happen.. i will upload a new cap when i get a chance.

also, (as stated in original post), the cap is corrupt. it is fine for testing the plugin, but each time you save it, it saves to a larger cap file, which creates a larger, less responsive exe.

unfortunately, i havent yet uploaded the cap file, as i stated i would in the original post. but i will soon

if you get a chance to test this in a fresh cap, without the button object, please let me know if you still have problems

also, let me know if you were using the "on control" conditions in this plugin, or the ones in mouse/keyboard

and thx for using the plug

it's still not perfect,

but this is what I thought you meant when I first read this topic title

if so, and you need help understanding or refining it, please let me know

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1013446/mousefighting.cap

just move mouse to swordfight, it's self-explanatory once you start doing it

I don't think stuff like that is too simple

but while we're at it

a less rounded, more polygonal version for custom physics masks would be cool too

YAY!!!!!

first, insert an event:

<img src="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1013446/untitled1.PNG">

then choose the sprite, or whatever object has the timer behavior on it

<img src="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1013446/untitled2.PNG">

then make sure to click on the timer tab

and insert the On Timer event

<img src="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1013446/untitled3.PNG">

after you tell it the name of your timer, you will have an On Timer event

add any actions to this event that you want when the timer is up

<img src="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1013446/untitled4.PNG">