Thanks C-7 it took a lot of research and head-scratching :)

You're welcome! This is the awesomest FAQ I've ever seen anywhere and when I was getting started with Construct it was my holy book

Kyatric you might want to add this

scirra.com/forum/topic75320.html

I wasn't sure where to put this post.

I made a water effect with refraction, using only built-in effects.

<img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28087823/Construct%20Examples/Water%20Refraction/Html/screenshot.png" border="0">

What I used:

1. an animated sprite of Perlin Noise (24 frames at 48x48pixels, made seamless in photoshop, frame by frame, with the Filter->Offset method) inside a semitransparent layer with the "Lens" effect.

2. a caustics sprite set on "dodge"

3. a semitransparent greenish tiledBackground set to hard light (to set the color of the water and everything in it)

4. a semitransparent water "surface" sprite

So it's tileable refractive water, that can affect all layers beneath it, and doesn't use masking or "force own texture" on layer. This is something that can't be reproduced any other way in Construct 2, so far as I know.

You can check the effect out here:

live demo

and you can study the CAPX here (although a little sloppy):

CAPX

EDIT: Also the principle behind surface reflection. Read more on the second page of this thread.

Reflection CAPX

Reflection Live Demo

Thanks for the heads up. I noticed, but I was way more interested in your awesome indexing skills. Don't worry, I won't learn "bad" techniques from you.

Thank you for the kind comment as well, if you ever need any graphics tips, you know where to find me

Oh god, so *that's* what for each (ordered) is! I should read the manual more.

What an elegant solution, thank you keepee, I'm in your debt!

Ah yes.

You're making a neverending loop.

Here's what you need:

1. If the gun has more than 3 bullets in its barrel, then fire one every 0.3 seconds

2. every 3 seconds, reload the gun with bullets. Until then, nothing happens.

dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28087823/Construct%20Examples/gatling%20gun/gatling%20gun.capx

Hi. I have 3 troll sprite instances, on a horizontal platform.

This is The CAPX

When ctrl is held and an arrow key is pressed, I cycle between them by adding +1 to the instance number or subtracting 1 from the instance number

The problem is, if the trolls move from their original positions, they are not in the correct order any more. So by pressing ctrl+arrow, you don't necessarily select an adjacent troll any more :(

So I found a way to dynamically assign an Xindex number to each instance, by using a loop and comparing the X position to a minimum and maximum X.

So then, every time I press ctrl, the troll instances get numbered 0, 1, 2 (leftmost, middle, and rightmost troll respectively).

QUESTION

What do I do with the horizontal index though? How can I use it to always select the sprite to the right, when pressing ctrl+right, or the sprite to the left, when pressing ctrl+left ?

I may be overthinking it, so I'm stuck.

If anyone has any idea, I'd be grateful

Yes I'm working on it now.

I can't get over the fact that the queen doesn't *always* and consistently clear the obstacle when she jumps.

This breaks my game for the time being, so I'm searching for solutions.

thousand apologies for necroing this post, but has this been addressed? I'm seeing height inconsistencies in my really lightweight game. Firefox *and* chrome.

So here's what I've been doing for the past three days:

ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27

I love Ludum Dare, and I love Construct 2!

Tell me what you guys think, and also, if you can think of any way to make troll selection more intuitive, I'm all ears.

<img src="http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/compo2/273708/13139-shot0.png" border="0" />

Ramones this is an amazing fix for my situation. No, they will move separately, as in lost vikings/the cave.

So that's what this needs, an impenetrable wall that keeps the troll there until it has the decency to fall.

You're a lifesaver. I can't see what you have in trollgap3.capx because you uploaded trollgap2.capx twice.

But wow!

P.S. Mad, is this the solution you had in mind?