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  • Naw. It would be like going backwards.

    Constructs event sheet is the defining advantage it has over clickteam products.

    Ashley, construct’s main developer, made plugins for for old clicktem products before making construct. So he’s well aware of that old grid checkbox stuff, and he made something better. So much better that clicktem finally is making its event editor look more like construct’s.

    To me that checkbox stuff is a lot less readable, and yes I have used it before.

  • Admittedly I didn't test it. Regex should work everywhere. I know there are other solutions too. Personally I've done it with a loop by either using some math to extract 3 digits at a time, or use one of the text expressions to get three characters at a time.

    It's hard to search though. I find I do everything from scratch anyways when using Construct. You have something that suits your purpose. Carry on.

  • This question comes up a lot. There are many solutions, but the forum search doesn't work well enough to find them easily.

    The most recent has a nice regex formula by dop2000

    construct.net/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/number-with-space-136985

  • I don’t recall exactly. You’d have to look at the source or test it. But if you created a color with for example:

    Set color to rgb(12, 33, 177)

    “Color” would be a single number with the three colors packed in.

    Then you could get individual color components from that number with

    Red = color%256

    Green =int( color/256)%256

    Blue = int(color/256/256)%256

    There may also be expressions to help with that but I haven’t checked.

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  • I’d be interested in a simple tool to create 3D games. There are unlimited features that could be added to a 3D engine, so I’m curious what minimal feature set could be to still be fun and enjoyable to use.

    Lately I’ve been less interested in flashy special case features, and more interested in simple core features that could be used to build those special case features.

    So what would such a program have? I’m sure we all have a varying list of things we would want.

    * object types: camera, 3D mesh

    * A level editor to place, size, orient said objects

    * a way to get keyboard input as a minimum

    * an event/simple scripting system to move stuff about.

    * we’d want functions and some kind of arrays at least.

    If we could access all the mesh data with expressions, even better.

    After that I have a cascading list of ideas. Lol. But those basics could be enjoyable. In that base state there would be lots of math to do stuff, but I don’t think it too bad. Simpler helper functions could be made to hide the math.

    Of course there would always be things to optimize and improve.

    The dream feature list would be:

    * editor built with same engine for ease of adding editor features.

    * a simple way to make shaders in the editor without using glsl.

    Ahh it’s fun to dream and design in your head. Kudos to anyone that takes such a dream and try’s to make such a thing for fun.

  • I don’t think anyone here wants to make a feature request.

  • There's always the feature request page if something is lacking.

    From what I’ve briefly found looking at html5, I’d probably do it the same as with my solution. Is there a built in way to restrict to only numbers? Maybe, but it’s simpler to just do myself. It gives the ability to restrict the input to anything I’d desire.

    Personally the “why” doesn’t interest me a lot. It could be an intentional design choice, or maybe oversight.

  • I think what you’re missing is sub-events. You can drag an event under and to the right of another event to make it a sub-event. Kind of like indention formatting of some programming languages.

    Hope that helps.

  • Sorry, I haven’t a clue. The plugins I mentioned were c2 only, although I think blackhornet ported paster to c3 somewhere.

    I thought you were asking about in c2.

  • One idea that comes to mind is to let the text box be normal and under a “text changed” condition you can check what was typed and limit it to numbers or numbers with decimals. Actually you could use float() with this too. 

    textbox: on text changed
compare: len(textbox.text)>0
— textbox: set text to float(self.text)

  • Distorting sprites like that isn’t really possible with vanilla construct.

    One possible way could be a shader. There are many effects that people have made to distort an image. Most are pretty specific and they don’t really fit the requirement to be able to distort an image arbitrarily.

    Another idea would be to do it like texturing is done in a 3D modeling program. You’d set the position and uv coordinants of of vertecies. But again you can’t do that in vanilla construct.

    There are two plugins that can be used to do it though, with varying ease.

    The first is Paster. It has a draw quad action that can do the distortion. For curved you’d do lots of smaller quads.

    Another plugin is “custom draw.” Very similar but is simpler in a way. It’s topic has a few distortion examples.

    A third way is with some custom webgl in JavaScript to draw the distorted mesh.

  • This was reported as a C2 bug and not a C3 one. Also I think tagging the devs in posts in the bugs section is kind of redundant.

    Anyways, what's happening is the textbox object, once selected, blocks most all input events from passing through it to anything else. So the keyboard state (which is stored in a array in the keyboard object) isn't updated when the spacebar key is released.

    I'm not the developer, but you can make the keyup events not be blocked from the textbox object as a self fix. It would make the key released triggers fire as you type stuff, but perhaps that's acceptable in your case.

    Anyways, set the textbox id property to something like "foo" and then using the browser object run this code: 

    start of layout
-- browser: execute js: "$(document.getElementById('foo')).off('keyup');"

    I don't think it would work in C3 unless jquery is used in the textbox object.

    Alternatively, I guess if you wanted more control you could just do your own textbox with events and filter keyboard events yourself. Last I checked the keyboard object wasn't quite up to snuff to get typed keys with case and such, so you could capture keys with a little js as well. I thought I had posted this before, but I guess not.

    dropbox.com/s/4krzeg2umuhdeth/text_input.capx

    cheers