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- dop2000
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Tilemap can be empty. There must be a problem with some of those conditions in your event. Try disabling them one by one. Also, why do you have both Touch and Mouse conditions?

See this demo, you may find it useful:

dropbox.com/s/8zap7yuhwdb0pcb/Farming_TileSet.capx
- dop2000
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whitkin This action only works with asynchronous events (like AJAX->Request, Local Storage->Get/Set, Pathfinding->Find Path etc.), it won't work with Tween or loops or anything like that.
See this Ashley's video about this new feature:

youtube.com/watch
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Here you go:

dropbox.com/s/3mcd9fcel5paf78/EllipseDemo.capx
I derived the formula from this post:

math.stackexchange.com/questions/432902/how-to-get-the-radius-of-an-ellipse-at-a-specific-angle-by-knowing-its-semi-majo
You can use canvas plugin to draw the ellipse, but it doesn't have "Draw ellipse" action. You can either draw a path or lots of dots or small rectangles. It will still be better for performance rather than creating thousands of dot sprites.
- dop2000
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"wait for previous action to complete" is only intended to work with asynchronous actions of certain plugins, like AJAX, Local Storage, Pathfinding. (look for the clock icon on the event sheet). It basically replaces "On completed" event. It won't help you with other things.

Local Storage actions can easily take longer time on a slow device, or if you are saving/loading a lot of data etc. AJAX Request can take several seconds when you are requesting a file from the internet. Pathfinging Find Path can be quite slow on a large map, and so on. So yeah, never use "Wait 0.1s" with asynchronous events.
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- dop2000
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I still not sure I understand your question. You need to set the correct position of the sprite first, and then pin it to another object.

If this doesn't work correctly and the sprite is misplaced, check Origin image points of both objects.
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part12studios Functions help to keep code organized and optimized. My function "StarageSave" in the example above can be called many times from different parts of the game. For example, when player finished a level, made some purchase etc.
You didn't notice "wait for previous action to complete" before, because it was only added in version r157 :) See that video link I posted.

Using "Wait 0.1" with asynchronous events is not a good idea, as sometimes the delay may be bigger than 0.1s

All actions inside one event are executed in sequential order. I'm not sure I understand what's your concern here.
- dop2000
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System -> Set layout scale

Make sure your layout has layers with non-zero "Scale rate".
- dop2000
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Here is how I usually do this, I read LS from Loader layout and after the data is retrieved/missing (Level variable becomes>0), I switch to the main layout. The dictionary is only used for easier storage, all keys from the dictionary are copied over to global variables.

You can simplify these events further with this new feature:

youtube.com/watch
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- dop2000
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Your ball is only 2x2 px and has square collision polygon. It will not bounce properly. You need to change the reflection angle yourself when the ball hits any wall or paddle. Try this:
- dop2000
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It's possible using a small PHP script, you post data to it with AJAX and it saves it in a file. See this post:

construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/savecsv-file-server-137535
Other possible solutions are sending JSON strings to MySQL database or to Google Spreadsheets.

construct.net/en/tutorials/search
construct.net/en/tutorials/sending-data-from-construct-23-to-google-spreadsheet-1447
construct.net/en/tutorials/create-online-database-google-1373
- dop2000
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Yes - place them on the layout, as described.

Ashley I thought the whole point of new "Load images" actions in C3 was to avoid that.
Is it technically possible to add an option to store images in memory permanently?