WackyToaster's Forum Posts

  • I really don't need AI, but it's useful sometimes.

    AI can build games for you

    I don't want AI to do my hobby for me, I want AI to do the dishes and clean the toilet

  • Maintaining that for potentially 100s of files still sounds kind of like a nightmare. Couldn't the sorting/grouping be largely reflected by the folder structure? For example if I put a goblin on a layout I need all sounds that belong to the goblin which are all sorted in "enemies/goblin/..."

    If I then had access to this folder structure I could just loop through all files inside that folder without having to maintain an extra list. I can do that additionally if I need to though or even tack on some extra files if needed.

    But even getting an array of all files would suffice though since I can just run a filter over it to get all the file paths that contain "enemies/goblin/" and loop over that.

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  • that in 2026 it will not be able to be updated

    Actually maybe Ashley could clarify this but I thought that r449 LTS would stay available beyond 2026, just not receive any more updates. Similar to how all versions of Construct are still available. I can open r100 just fine still if I want to or need to.

    Either way, you may have to do a version freeze. Stay on r449-2 which is the final version that supports SDK1. It's not unusual practice to do in development, especially when you reach later stages of the project where updating the engine could introduce a million random regressions and bugs.

    we have many times hired services to make custom addons and now all those efforts are useless

    Apart from using them in the LTS version, you can still update these addons to SDK2. You should be able update any addon that doesn't hack any engine internals without much issue.

  • So based on the audio scripting example, I have to manually (pre)load the audio myself in order to use it. In the example it's done like so 

    [audioSfx5, audioSfx7, audioEpicArpg] = await Promise.all([
		audioManager.loadSound("sfx5.webm"),
		audioManager.loadSound("sfx7.webm"),
		audioManager.loadMusic("epicArpg.webm")
	]);

    I have many many more sounds. Surely there's a better way to do this. But... no? The best way I found was with a loop but I still have to punch in every single soundfile myself. Is there really no way to just get all the soundfiles to preload like the audio plugin usually does by itself?

    I thought the asset manager would help, but also no...

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/scripting/scripting-reference/interfaces/iassetmanager

    Am I just overlooking something or is this a case for a feature request?

    And of course I had to do some snooping around... the closed off internal asset manager has the exact function I need. GetAudioToPreload()

    But of course I can't use that :,)

  • Do you think it's because we didn't provide enough feedback?

    No, I'm pretty sure this topic has been chewed through thoroughly in several very long threads.

    The LTS version is the play here if you crucially NEED 3rd party plugins that CANNOT be ported. That's why it exists, it is this exact case.

    Other than that, the options are what they always are: Deal with it or leave for the other side were the grass is greener. And I'm aware that neither of these options is necessarily appealing.

  • That's what the LTS version is for. Nobody in the community is super happy with this but it is what it is.

  • The illogical design lacks clear official documentation

    Are you sure?

    While I do agree that it's somewhat of an unintuitive design, it has been improved since the last time I encountered it. Because nowadays you can add animations to a sprite dynamically. Meaning you can:

    1. Create your 4 sprites

    2. Create animations on each (A, B, C, D)

    3. Set them to use that animation

    4. Load your image into each animation respectively

    That should do the trick.

  • System -> compare two values

    random(1) < 0.3 = 30%

    random(1) < 0.9 = 90%

    random generates a value between 0 and 1.

    If you want some extra control you can try the advanced random plugin, which supports probability tables.

    construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/advanced-random

  • You could try disabling WebGPU (or enabling it). If you're on the beta branch it is enabled by default iirc and can lead to some pretty weird graphical bugs. For me random pixels are shiftet up or down, it's really weird.

  • You can use the 'Enable/disable collisions' action in the Physics behavior for collision filtering.

    Unfortunately this is absolutely not sufficient, see these requests here for full info :)

    github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/68

    github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/467

    I've been hoping/waiting for this for quite a while now.

  • I'm really enjoying working on this, but it's all quite tricky!

    Oh yeah absolutely it's tricky. I've tinkered with all that before. Adding firebase, using my own php scripts and SQL on a server etc. It's extremely tricky to get right. I even went and made my own registration/login before, did a ton of research into the security aspects and all. That was quite some years ago though.

    Cool to see more potential incoming! Global data is also very interesting.

  • Stuff like that is honestly a great add-on service. Although I'm not sure if I can ever utilize it (because if anything I'm bad at actually releasing my games :V)

    But still, I hope to see more in line with this. Another great one would be a service to store data, kinda like firebase.

  • Pretty sure your code does not work unless I mucked it up.

    this.tween.finished will run before this.attacking = null. So the following check for if(this.attacking) will always be true.

    But I do get the gist, I just need an extra variable to track.

    I don't wanna implement it though if you plan on changing how this works anyway. :^) So if you plan on changing it I will post it to the tracker for tracking purposes. I'm really not acutely worried about a memory leak that happens if I spend an hour attacking.

  • Ah pause... duh. Yeah that appears to work SORT OF with some adjustments.

    There's just one thing that worries me though... I do in fact want the tween to end there, no need to resume. If I pause it, isn't it just floating around in memory indefinitely? And the async call is also kept waiting for the tween to end?

    Some context, I'm using it for an attack animation. Here's how it looks in short 

    async attack() {
	if(this.attacking) return;
	this.attacking = tween;
	tween.finished.then(
		//do whatever
	)
}

cancelAttack() {
	this.attacking.pause();
	this.attacking = null;
}

    If I cancel the attack during it's animation and just pause the tween... I can literally never actually stop the tween because as soon as I do that, the async will resume its tween.finished.then() which I don't want. Something doesn't add up, perhaps a skill issue on my part?