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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 24 Jun, 2008
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  Delete the quotes and enter a number or variable and it works as you'd expect.

  "X is " + str(Sprite.X) + " and Y is " + str(SpriteY) + ", and the variable is " + str(Sprite.Value('Variable'))

  You can use the & operator to concatenate any variables as text. For example, you could create the same string with:

  "X is " & Sprite.X & " and Y is " &Sprite.Y & ", and the variable is " & Sprite.Value('Variable')

  Looks a little cleaner and is easier to edit that way.

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  • 23 Jun, 2008
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  Construct can do a tiny bit of 3D, but as long as it's a six-faced 3D box, heh!

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  • 23 Jun, 2008
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  Who posted this bug?

  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... id=1003219

  It's a very serious problem that I want to investigate, and I can't put all the pieces together from the provided files. I need to contact the person who encountered the error, and find out what they were doing in the IDE before the save error occurred. Since the .cap opens and saves fine, one of the actions done in the IDE since that save seems to have corrupted the application memory, and caused an error during saving. I need to narrow down or identify one action that causes this memory corruption - so if anybody has any clues, let me know...

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• • Ashley Construct Team Founder
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  • 23 Jun, 2008
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  Just do Always - Set Text (in the Text object). You can enter any number, variable, anything - the text object will show it.

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  • 22 Jun, 2008
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  Well, it's hard to look at it as a game creator in its own right when it's called "The Sims Carnival Game Creator". Looks like just a promo.

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  • 22 Jun, 2008
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  Oh... maybe... when I'm typing my reply, there's a list of checkboxes at the bottom, with a tab 'Options'. Next to it is an 'Upload attachment' tab. Do you not see that?

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  • 22 Jun, 2008
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  See lines 12 and 13. If neither of these events are true (which is down to random chance), then tickx('speed') is 0, so 'normspeed' stays the same. Where are you going with this anyway? Is it some crazy game? :S

  By the way... you can add attachments to any posts... you dont have to put them all in the upload forum!

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  • 22 Jun, 2008
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  I've tried it and I can't find any way to edit the games other than via some kind of wizard asking questions about the game (eg. "How fast should the enemies move?"). Is that it? A series of heavily modifiable presets? Is there an actual code or event editor anywhere?

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  • 22 Jun, 2008
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  Welcome to the forums! Don't forget to enter all bugs on to the bug tracker, even if you post about them on the forum.

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  • 21 Jun, 2008
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  What do you mean customizable? You can set the timescale to any float from 0 upwards, the demo just uses 6 different values to show how it works. If you've got sound on, as well, listen for Directsound timescaling the audio as well.

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  • 21 Jun, 2008
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  http://www.scirra.com/files/timescaling.zip

  Demo of the new Timescaling ability coming in the next build - allows for slow-motion (and fast-motion!) effects.

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  • 20 Jun, 2008
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  Containers create and destroy together, but they also all pick together in the events. If an event picks one of the instances in the container, all instances in the container are picked.

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  • 18 Jun, 2008
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  I said it is NOT FOR ME...

  Hehe, never heard that one before

  Anyways, this is not an ethics committee. Closing.

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  • 18 Jun, 2008
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  A lot of games disallow bot or assisted gameplay, counting it as cheating, and actively look for bot accounts and ban them. You should play the game the same way everybody else does!

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  • 17 Jun, 2008
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  Sprites ARE textures on quads, but traditionally your trapezioid-shaped graphics come from using ordinary rectangular quads and viewing them at a 3D angle - in 2D, top down, you're actually just squashing the texture in to a funny shape. Still, a 3D sprite object is possible - it'd work like a single-faced 3D box object.