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Construct 3 r193

Updated Pin behavior; bug fixes

30 March, 2020 ()

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Notes

This release significantly overhauls the Pin behavior - it was almost completely rewritten. It's now better organised, more flexible, and adds multiple popular suggestions, including pinning to an image point, and pinning to size or Z elevation (including in any other combination with other properties).

Other smaller changes include adding the option to control Z elevation with the Sine behavior, a new scripting method to get instances by UID, and as usual, a batch of bug fixes.

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New Additions

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Pin behavior: can now pin width, height and Z elevation
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Pin behavior: 'Pin to image point' action
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Pin behavior: 'Set pin distance' action
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Sine behavior: Z elevation movement mode
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'Project saved in newer release' message now has link to load C3 version project was saved in

Changes

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Pin behavior: can now pin any combination of properties
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Pin behavior: separated rope/bar mode to 'Pin at distance' action
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Updated 'Sine behavior types' example to include Z elevation
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Removed "addon unsupported features" dialog; now only logs message to console
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Revert earlier change to frame scheduling due to a bug in Chrome - hopefully it can be reintroduced when fixed

Bug Fixes

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Fix incorrect handling of special quote characters in expression strings (regression in r190)
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Fix error previewing project that exploited an old C2 bug that incorrectly allowed event includes in sub-events
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Audio: 'Is playing' could incorrectly still be true for one tick after 'On ended' triggered
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Physics: 'Compare overall velocity' not working (regression in r191)
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OR blocks could incorrectly run with instance not meeting conditions (regression in C3 runtime)
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C2 runtime did not run in Internet Explorer (regression)

Scripting updates

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Add runtime 'getInstanceByUid' method

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  • The new pin behavior seems to have broken all pins in my project. Am I missing something?

    • I can confirm. The new pin breaks existing project.

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        As I mentioned, it shouldn't do, it should be completely backwards compatible. I tested this and verified it didn't break anything while developing it, but might have missed somthing. Please file an issue if it breaks anything.

    • Alright, I just need to go through all the pin actions in my project and redo them. You should probably automate that process before you take this to stable.

  • Awesome! Pin to Image Point Finally!

  • Nice to see the pin behaviour get some love. But I really think "destroy with parent" should be added as a property as well. You almost always want to destroy a pinned object when the parent is destroyed, so would be a nice addition as well. That is why i use the Pin+ plugin. Just a nice to have instead of taking care of it with an extra event :)

    • Aekiro's GameObject plugin can help do this :)

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      I know it's not as flexible as you're hoping but you can accomplish that with containers. But I do agree, for added flexibility it would be able to destroy the pinned object on if the "parent" is destroyed.

  • "Add runtime 'getInstanceByUid' method"

    Thank you Ashley for adding this useful and important feature, its Gonna be really helpful for a lot of people.

    Also the New Pin Awesome addition )))

  • Awesome update!

  • Hey Scirra team :) Huge thanks for adding the new pin features, especially the pin width/height. I've been hoping for these for a very long time and couldn't believe it when I saw the update this morning! You guys rock! Stay safe :)

  • I didn't know it was possible to get so excited about little ol' Pin Behavior, but here I am dancing in my chair.

  • This is one hell of an update, good f***** job!

  • Great job, thanks!

  • Hello.

    The rotation angle for the object does not work.

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