Construct Animate feedback thread

Um are you going to add support for third party shaders?

I hope you are planning on making video export available to C3 because as is, using Animate to create videos using C3 files is next to impossible.

You can't just delete layouts, behaviors, and third party stuff.

I tested the differences between the Video Recorder plug, and Animate, and they are about the same performance wise.

That being said the performance on my system sucked.

I know you don't want to hear it, but a 30 fps option is going to need to happen.

I tested the differences between the Video Recorder plug, and Animate, and they are about the same performance wise.

You mean the video recorder plugin vs the video export option? Trust me, the video recorder absolutely tanks performance if you go with higher resolutions. Try recording something in 4k, the result is almost unusable.

> I tested the differences between the Video Recorder plug, and Animate, and they are about the same performance wise.

You mean the video recorder plugin vs the video export option? Trust me, the video recorder absolutely tanks performance if you go with higher resolutions. Try recording something in 4k, the result is almost unusable.

My results were tanks either way.

The video export is an offline encode option, which is a key difference to Video Recorder, which does a real-time encode. If the system can't keep up with Video Recorder, the game performance suffers and that can affect the content recorded. However with video export, the engine renders a frame, encodes it to video, and then advances the time by one frame, and continues. So the performance has no effect on the video content: it will always export perfectly smooth motion regardless of how fast or slow encoding is. And if you have a powerful system, depending on the export parameters, offline encoding can run much faster than real-time.

not sure if someone already requested this but making a GIF export would be pretty helpful for socials...as its always a nice lightweight way to post some animation.

I made this into a GIF using many steps (AnimateExport Frames->Aseprite->GIF->ezgif to optimize)

not sure if someone already requested this but making a GIF export would be pretty helpful for socials...as its always a nice lightweight way to post some animation.

This is kind of a tricky thing to explain, but GIF is pretty much dead as a format. Anywhere you upload an actual .gif file, it will likely be immediately converted to a modern video format, as it makes for a far smaller file size. Construct could let you export a GIF, but the first thing you do with it will likely convert it back to a video, so you may as well use a video to begin with.

It's possible to add GIF export, but there doesn't seem to be much point, especially since I've been working on supporting exporting MP4 videos which is a more widely supported format - e.g. I've noticed Giphy supports uploading MP4 but not WebM. So I suspect using an MP4 video export will do everything a GIF export would have done but better.

You already have export to images, so making a gif can be done third party, and with probably more options than an export could offer.

Btw, there is no indication the image sequence is in PNG format until after you download and unzip the files.

It's mentioned in the documentation. I didn't want to call it "PNG sequence" since we may well add support for other image formats like WebP or HEIC. But there doesn't seem much point adding a dropdown with no choices in it - or maybe we should add it anyway to make it clearer?

the step is where the scrubbar and keyframes are positioned at/snap to.

Like when you scrub the playhead it moves in steps based on that.

Please do report issues to the issue tracker. Things only mentioned in the forum are easily lost and forgotten as there are hundreds of posts a week here. We also routinely find it's impossible to fix problems from brief mentions like that. We need more information to be able to help, which is why we have bug report guidelines - to make sure we get enough information to actually be able to help.

In short you will have a much, much better chance the problem you are reporting is actually fixed if you file an issue following the guidelines.