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  • Play in a 'Let's Play' Let's you play a video like it's a Platformer level.

    (Green is the tilemap that being used for collisions after capturing and scanning the video)

  • The strange vibe in this game is just great. Wishlisted.

  • This is an interesting problem.

    The main issue here is that depending on frame rate, dt and bullet speed, you will trigger the overlap condition at different X locations on each wall. If you look very carefully (or look carefully and increase bullet speed), you will see that sometimes the squares overlap the walls by different amounts before they change diection, then they will start at different locations and change the spacing.

    To make it look more consistent, one idea is to detect how much the overlap is and set the block back to where it 'should' be when it reflects back in the other direction.

    Try this and let me know how it works in your testing. The formulas can be simplified, but I left them as is, so it would be easier to see what the calculations are doing.

    It does start to fail if you increase the bullet speed to be so high that in one frame two squares would overlap the wall, if you need to deal with that case, you will need to do more work.

  • Using your Spine project on a Moto G6 and remote preview:

    1 Spine Object: 60 fps

    2 Spine Objects: 40 fps

    3 Spine Objects: 30 fps

    On iPhone XR:

    30 Spine Objects: 60 fps (and starts to slowly fall off after that.)

    In the plugin, we are updating a texture for each Spine object on each draw call. Some mobile GPUs may have low performance on texture updates.

  • Heh, no this is a SDV day scene on a sprite with a WIP LinearLight effect applied w/ a gradient.

    If you do a simplified farming game, please let us know how it goes.

    — if you are still looking for this effect, let me know, I have something you could try out.

  • Are your 'lines' separate sprites or are you using Drawing Canvas?

  • How about this? A good look depends a lot on the gradient image you apply.

  • I am not the plugin's original author, I am mostly helping out with the webgl rendering side and fixing bugs. So, generally, I will not be doing work to add a lot more ACEs. I think the original author has moved on from using this plugin themselves, so I think it will likely stay with a minimal number of ACEs to support playing animations.

    That being said if you have a few critical ACEs required, you can make a request up on the github website in the issue list:

    github.com/gritsenko/c3_spine_plugin/issues

    Also, since this is all done in JS, you can also use JS script in events to access the Spine API directly in C3.

  • Here's a formula for linear light from this page: deepskycolors.com/archive/2010/04/21/formulas-for-Photoshop-blending-modes.html

    (Blend > 0.5) * (Target + 2*(Blend-0.5)) +

    (Blend <= 0.5) * (Target + 2*Blend - 1)

    I am not exactly sure how to use it though, I imagine you are blending a source image with the background. I think you would have to apply the above to each color component separately?

    I am over on the Construct Community Discord and have ported/developed effects before if you want to discuss creating an effect or see if that would even work for your purposes.

    discord.gg/kBrCTWV

  • On my project, I fixed the Android APK issue. It seems that for some reason, the initialization process for the Spine plugin takes longer on apk than when done with the web version.

    The longer initialization exposed a bug in the plugin which caused multiple initializations. I fixed this bug in the plugin and now in my simple apk, the Spine character renders properly.

    Please try out the new version of the plugin: 1.4.5

    It's available here:

    gritsenko.github.io/c3_spine_plugin

    Please let us know your results.

  • I am debugging another simple project on Android, it looks like there's some looping on initialization. I will report back what I can debug around this issue.

    I am using USB and Mac to do the debug, it's very helpful to enable this. See the post above about how to do this.

    Also, I wanted to check that my other comment about the bug in your project with the wrong animation name helped fix your 'restart layout' problem on the PC.

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  • Ashley I think I'm going to assume that for distortion effects (or effects where we adjust the texture sampling coordinates), I will always enable must-predraw so I can get consistent behavior with srcOriginStart, srcOriginEnd, and relative impact and 'direction' of pixelSize, regardless if only one effect is used or more than one effect is used (or opacity is used.)

    I think there also may be cases where I can also use the normlization technique (n= (vTex-srcOriginStart)/(srcOriginEnd-srcOriginStart)) and then I can use clamp(newN, 0.0,1.0) and perhaps then it won't matter if must-predraw is used.

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