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Better local font support; 8-direction sliding; bug fixes and improvements
31 May, 2022 ()
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Notes
This release introduces a new Allow sliding option for the 8 Direction movement. If enabled, the movement will be allowed to slide along solids, rather than just stopping. This can be a more flexible way to use the movement in certain types of games. The Car behavior has also been updated to better handle sliding along solids with certain movement parameters - it should not move faster than the maximum speed any more.
There's also support for listing all available local fonts in Chrome 103+, thanks to a new browser feature that can provide a full list. You will see a permission prompt the first time you use this, but providing you approve the permission it should then work automatically afterwards, allowing access to the full set of fonts installed locally.
Finally as ever there's lots of bug fixes, as well as a range of improvements to timelines, many of which are based on feedback from the launch of Construct Animate beta. These updates also improve Construct 3 too, and we expect many such mutually beneficial changes in future too. We'll now be focusing on reliability as we aim to bring Construct 3 towards a stable release in a few weeks, so as usual changes will start to focus on things like bug fixes. Stay tuned for more updates!
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Launch r297
New Additions
8 Direction: 'Allow sliding' option to allow movement to slide along sloped solids
Text: support for listing all available local fonts in Chrome 103+
Changes
Timeline bar: preview timeline when scrubbing the playhead (hold Ctrl/Cmd to prevent preview)
Timeline bar: do not change the playhead position when clicking on a keyframe
Hierarchies: revert change introduced in r295 that changed the behaviour of the 'Transform angle' toggle
Bug Fixes
Mobile exports not working when using file: scheme (regression r295)
Car movement: could move too fast when sliding along solids in some cases
Layout View: rotating wrapped selections with shift held down not working correctly
Templates: 'TemplateName' expression was not returning the expected value for replicas created in the editor
Timeline bar: make it easier to select a keyframe when a time marker is on top of it
Timeline bar: allow dragging bezier curve anchor points which are overlapping the selection box of an instance
Timeline bar: dragging keyframes creating new keyframes with unexpected values (regression r296)
Timeline bar: undoing property keyframe changes producing unexpected results (regression r285.2)
Timeline bar: crash having a X or Y position property keyframe alone (regression r295)
Possible crash when hierarchy parent has zero size
Data editor: incorrect background color shown when resizing rows and columns in the default dark theme
Performance Improvements
Timeline bar: improve accuracy and performance of bezier curve drawing
SDK updates
Data editor: new CSS variable '--spreadsheetview-highlight-font-color' for highlighted cell text color
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