Tips and tricks

Construct Classic is a giant program, and we would not be able to cover every feature or use that we still have to learn. But now we'll take a quick look to see some other techniques that might prove useful in our future games.

For these examples, we'll be using graphics from the following image:

Custom collision masks

Sometimes, we will need to give our objects custom collision masks rather than using the built-in collision system. Luckily, Construct Classic makes this as easy as drawing our main sprites.

Start by adding in the ground block sprites with the Solid attribute. Then, add a sprite with the platform behavior. Notice how the sprite collides with the outer edges of the ground blocks when it should walk along the middle of their top plane.

We will now edit the collision mask for the blocks manually. If you're running Construct Classic on a Windows Vista or a Windows 7 computer, be sure to run it with the Run as administrator option (right-click on the icon to find...