custom expressions for objects

Custom expressions would be great, but the feature I really miss is custom conditions.

Imagine this condition, which evaluates each enemy instance and picks enemies which are vulnerable to a certain attack type:

Enemy IsVulnerableToAttack ("fire"): Enemy enable red outline

dop2000 custom conditions sounds interesting, but no ideas come to mind for it. I'm not quite sure I understand your example, isn't that basically a varible or boolean check?

> isn't that basically a varible or boolean check?

No, IsVulnerableToAttack is meant to be a custom condition that can include dozens of checks analyzing various enemy and attack properties. For example, an enemy might be vulnerable to a "fire" attack if it’s an "ice" type or has 0 armor, but also doesn’t have a magic shield, and isn’t in an "immortal" state.

Putting all those complex checks in a separate block and then using a single Enemy IsVulnerableToAttack condition in your main logic would make the code much cleaner and easier to read.

I also don't know if I understood correctly, but I believe this is easy to do by creating a function that does all the checks and returns a value to validate or not that check.

by creating a function that does all the checks and returns a value to validate or not that check.

Sure, you could do that with a function. But we’re talking about quality-of-life improvements here. Custom actions can be replaced with functions too, but custom actions are far more convenient.

A custom condition would automatically pick instances. To achieve the same with a function, you’d have to use For Each or Pick by Evaluate and pass the instance UID into the function - which is much more cumbersome.

Here is an example:

dop2000 you should make a suggestion here for it!

github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues

There already was a similar suggestion:

github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/271

And I believe your idea (essentially custom expressions) is also quite similar.

The previous suggestion expired, feel free to upvote if you want to still see it:

github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/660

I reopened my expired suggestion for custom conditions /triggers

github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/666