For the Admins: Problems with Build 243

[alxmrg37]

These are the problems I've found with beta 243 so far:

I detected these changes in a game that I've had since MMF2 was released

1. Speeds of animations will increase randomly
ex. the falling animation i posted about before (turned out that changing the movement from Platform to Static fixed this)
ex. another object using the Bouncing movement had sped up animations as well.

2. MMF2 now has problems with differentiating between individual objects of the same type:
ex. When "bullet" collides with "enemy", set X pos of "enemy" to X("enemy")+10

In the game, this would cause the enemy to look like it was being pushed backwards by the bullet. However, in build 243, MMF2 applies this event to EVERY "enemy", regardless if it is the one being hit by the bullet. The result is that MMF2 will place an unaffected enemy at 10 pixels to the right of the affected enemy, so that all the enemies will now be at the same position.

On a positive note, the audio issues I had with the game freezing are fixed. Hopefully the other issues will be fixed as well, come time of the official update release.

[alxmrg37]

Oh yeah, I didn't test this with the 243 build, but I have a game where it uses the Sub Application extension to load another seperate MMF2 file into the game. When building the game however, I have to turn the sub application file into a .ccn to work.
When playing the stand-alone game and having the .ccn load via the sub application extension, the sounds generated by the sub application extension have pops in them and barely come in at all. Was this fixed in 243?

[alxmrg37]

243 also did a good job of fixing another bug, which caused the game to crash when i tried to restart the frame.

[Francois]

The animation speed problem is corrected. It works now fine.
The second problem does not occur on my machine. Please try the example I have created:

www.clickteam.com/francois/CollisionDemo.mfa

As you can see, objects are individually selected.
If you have an example showing the problem, can you post it asap? We would like the build 243 to be out as soon as possible.
Thanks

[raytrace]

Various problems (old ones) with the picture editor:

Changing the transparent colour doesn't work properly

Resizing along one axis using the selection tool resizes across 2

When you zoom in to a point where scroll bars are needed 1 pixel is chopped off each side (as in you can't scroll)

[alxmrg37]

Sorry, I had classes today. I'm working on an example file right now. Also, did you understand my problem with the .ccn file and the garbled audio when loading it as a Sub application file in a game?

[alxmrg37]

Unfortunately, I was unable to duplicate the problem...I wish I could upload the actual game and level, but it's far too large. Actually, this is probably fortunate for you, because it means it must be something in my coding, even though I can't find it yet. Thanks anyway.

[00J]

Francois your demo works fine on my machine. Each individual object reacts independantly.

[Yves]

Also, did you understand my problem with the .ccn file and the garbled audio when loading it as a Sub application file in a game?

Yes, understood but not yet tested. This might be related to the other sound issue in stand-alone apps reported yesterday.

Yves.

[Yves]

I can't reproduce this problem, could you send me an example?

Unless you used the Compress Sounds option in the sub-application? I've fixed a problem with this option, there was a bug with some WAV files.

Yves.