I told you it's bad and crashy...
I won't bother to download the beta, it seems exactly like the old pre-alpha I have, same bad interface and crashyness.
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DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
Registered 04/09/2004
Points 7998
16th July, 2007 at 13:06:44 -
The interface isn't bad, in fact, it's newer than MMF's, trying to imitate the new Vista ribbon style. The event editor is WAY more powerful than MMF's so far, in my experience.
It's crashy because it's a public beta. Why do you think they're having it tested by so many people? To remove as many crashing as possible. Probably a better idea than closed testing.
I don't know why you're so biased, LIJI, but you're the only one who seems to think this is really bad. Not even seems to think it's slightly good. It just needs work, and everyone already knew about that, and they're working their asses off to get things fixed and improved.
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Dustin Gunn Gnarly Tubular Way Cool Awesome Groovy Mondo
Registered 15/12/2004
Points 2659
16th July, 2007 at 13:48:44 -
Well the interface is brilliant compared to mmf but it just crashes when I try running the application.
I think it's because the direct x sdk installation messed up when I was installing Construct. Said the download failed.
Compare with MMF2 beta tests (Pre-release builds):
It NEVER crashed for me, only with features added in the latest beta build.
Also, as someone that has the source for it, I know that it is very badly made and uses many libraries that it shouldn't use, which cause slow runtime and edit time and make bigger exes.
The only advantage Construct has against MMF2 is the advanced event stuff (Else, Or, Sub Events) and Hardware Acceleration, which MMF2 will have soon. (OR was lately added, HA will be added soon.)
Construct somehow started crashing every time I run something now. Kinda odd.
It looks very promising though! Interface is pretty good, and I love the event editor.
The DirectX SDK install failed over here as well, but Construct used to run normally, but suddenly stopped doing that. Weird.
Seriously, I hate it when people try to talk for everyone.
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DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
Registered 04/09/2004
Points 7998
16th July, 2007 at 14:52:26 -
Yeah, I agree, though it didn't happen (or I must have missed something).
Well, LIJI, crappy codebase or not, the runtime still performs way better than MMF. Crashes will disappear in due time, it's the first time they tried after all.
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