Stable update: Sub-layers; New 3D effects; Timeline audio tracks & more.
Sublayers are amazing, thank you so much!
The only organisational complaint I have now is sprites all being dumped into one folder. Is it possible to use subfolders for projects? At the moment I have roughly 900 sprites floating about in a single folder, it's extremely hard to navigate through.
You can create subfolders if you right click on the MainFolder in the Projects Tab and then click "Add Subfolder"
I’m referring to the folder structure in the project directory, not in Construct itself. The way it saves files outside of the app is very difficult to work with, particularly when it needs to load all of those thumbnails.
It there were sub folders it’d be a lot more tidy and organised, and finding certain files wouldn’t be such a chore
Why do you need to do work with the project folder itself? You're meant to use the editor to edit projects.
You're meant to use the editor for many game development programs out there, but it's rare that any of those organise certain types of assets by putting them all into a single folder. Or at the very least you are given a choice. Subfolders are easier to navigate and less taxing on explorer / finder.
The editor doesn't always work either. I can add a bunch of PNG sprites, and upon opening my project the next time it fails to open at all. The console cites certain sprites that are missing (even though I haven't deleted or modified any). My Dropbox history, where I have my project saved, confirms this behaviour.
When I go to replace them, Windows almost has a heart attack as I open the folder to check each problematic file and replace them with working ones.
By the time this project is finished I will likely have thousands of image files floating about, it'd be great if they weren't all in a single directory.
It's still not clear to me from this why you can't just make changes in the editor. If you do that, then how it's saved on disk doesn't matter.
If a project fails to open for a missing sprite error, how else can I replace the missing sprite if it won't open in Construct?
If that isn't clear, I'm not sure how else I can explain it :/
That situation should never happen in the first place. If it does, please file an issue so we can fix it.