Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Patch Request

Hey Yves,

If you get this message, I was wondering if you could read over my special request for a new patch for Clickteam Fusion 2.5. I was wondering if we could settle an agreement on making the Clickteam limit larger with this solution: Upon creating a new file (new game in the mfa) It asks for a 32-bit version or a 64-bit version. Upon clicking 32-bit, it gives you the 2gb limit so that 32-bit operating systems can handle the exe file. Upon clicking 64-bit, it gives you either unlimited, if not, a 32gb limit. This will give Clickteam developers a great opportunity to make much bigger games and a much better experience. I don't want to sound like a beggar, but please, please make this patch possible. :( It's not fun when you want to make a big game, and have an mfa file removing it's own programming and corrupting itself. If you agree with my new patch idea, you don't have to do what i'm about to say, but please if you agree, please make sure the patch is ready in about a month or 2, if not, earlier. I have been working on TRTF:R for about 3 months and planned my release date for X-mas. The reason why it's specifically on X-mas is because it's the 1st Anniversary of the series. The only thing stopping me from continuing development on my game is the 2gb mfa limit. The game does have a ton of animations, so it does effect the mfa A LOT. I did minimize the amount of animations, but there will be more for the enemies of the game and moving around. Basically the game is a point and click free roam. I would switch to a REAL 3D game making engine, but I would prefer to stay with Clickteam since it's an absolutely amazing program and I have been using it for 8 months now. So it's hard leaving something you know and love. I hope you liked the idea for the new patch. :) I hope things are fantastic on your end, have a nice day/afternoon! :)

- PoniatorFilms

I'm not quite clear on what you are asking for here - are you asking for the 2gb size limit on 32-bit exe files to be removed? Or, are you asking for there to be no limit (or a large limit) for 64-bit exe files?

Either way, my advice has to be that if you are hitting these sorts of file sizes and hence limits, you should be considering changing your storage strategy. Placing music files, graphics, video etc. into external files can be one way of handling this. As a programmer in any language you have to follow best practice and employ clever strategies to deal with resource limits/limitations. Programming with Fusion is no different.

I agree with BFPFilms424. I am developing a game with a heck ton of animations and I optimize all I can, but I am really close to hitting 2GB limit.
It'd be very cool to have that feature selecting either a 32bit or 64bit app.
:)

From a different perspective it seems very hard to remove the limit due to the exe files (when you build the application) supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems. But what i'm trying to say, is why not add an option to choose if you want to make a 32-bit app or a 64-bit app? This would unfold so many possibilities! Of course seeing that 32-bit operating systems are weaker, choosing 32-bit would have the 2gb limit. Choosing 64-bit would be unlimited or have a much larger limit so that game developers can make MUCH bigger games. I'll show you a YouTube video for example so you can see what needs to be done or not. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurL42GCPXM

Is this your game? If so, then the work you've done is incredible!

Yeah. :) Thanks!

Fusion 2.5 is itself a 32-bit application. I'm surprised your assets aren't making the IDE itself run out of memory. Regardless, a re-engineering of the runtime would be a huge undertaking. Rather than suggesting it for 2.5 I'd suggest submitting it as a feature request for 3.0 which is in development now.

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Originally Posted by Simon

my advice has to be that if you are hitting these sorts of file sizes and hence limits, you should be considering changing your storage strategy. Placing music files, graphics, video etc. into external files can be one way of handling this. As a programmer in any language you have to follow best practice and employ clever strategies to deal with resource limits/limitations. Programming with Fusion is no different.

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This is basically what I'm aiming for, though I can't seem to figure out how to do this for graphics or sound. Text I can do just fine though, in fact it makes multi-language support super easy.

The other thing you must remember is that by making a 64 bit exe you are instantly excluding 30-40% or more of windows users who are running 32 bit versions of Windows. They just simply will never be able to run your program.

Place the sound and music files in a "data" subfolder in your project folder. When loading, you use: apppath$+"data\myfile.xyz".

Use active picture object for all backdrops and use spritesheets for animations. I recently finished an adventure game with 620MB assets stored externally and an 27mb exe file. It is no rocket sience. :)