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Construct 3 r318

Loads of additions, improvements and fixes

08 November, 2022 ()

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It's the start of a new beta release cycle and we have a new release packed with a long list of additions, improvements and fixes!

There are more improvements to the Find bar, including the ability to search project files, and some more usability improvements. There's new support for 3D audio in the Audio object, which is great with 3D Camera. Arrays can now split and join strings as a more flexible alternative to the tokenat() expression. And there's much more in the full changelog below, including various new options and other usability improvements.

We've also made a series of adjustments to the way project folders are saved. If you use a project folder on source control like GitHub, this should help make for a smooth workflow eliminating unnecessary changes that come up as you edit the project over time. It should also now be faster to save project folders, which helps even if you don't use source control!

There's also more improvements for scripting, including new APIs, autocomplete improvements, and a couple more examples. Last but not least, we also have a big batch of bug fixes. Happy testing!

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New Additions

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Find results bar: add option to also search text-based project files (including scripts)
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Audio: 'Set listener orientation' action for 3D audio support
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Audio: play positioned sounds with a Z co-ordinate for 3D audio support
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Array: 'Split string' action & 'Join string' expression as more flexible alternative to tokenat()
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HTML Element: 'Set scroll position' action
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Timelines: option to apply system timescale to timeline
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Layers bar: context menu option to open the layout containing the original global layer for overriden layer
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Templates: keyboard shortcuts Ctrl/Cmd + '[' or ']' to use the "replace whole hierarchy" and "modify existing hierarchy" options respectively
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Ease editor: add more methods to pan and zoom
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Keyboard shortcuts: Alt + W to close the currently active tab

Changes

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Multiplayer: deprecate 'Supports multiplayer' condition as it has been widely supported by all browsers for years now
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Find bar: select search term when pressing Ctrl+F again
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Find bar: remember last used 'Look in' and 'Match case' settings
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Parameters dialog: allow autocomplete box to shrink with few content items
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Sort "usedAddons" list in .c3proj file to avoid unnecessary changes on source control
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Remove "version" field from built-in addons in "usedAddons" list in .c3proj file to avoid unnecessary changes on source control
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When saving folder projects, skip updating file metadata for unchanged files to avoid unnecessary changes in source control
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Improve tracking of mouse/touch inputs in worker mode
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Layout view: allow margin markers to appear with smaller margin values
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Layers: use an icon to denote global layers rather than text
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When opening project, only wait for login state when loading data/text editor tabs

Bug Fixes

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Platform Info: ensure 'Is NW.js export' condition is true in Remote Preview for NW.js
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Physics: improve handling of non-centered origins (take 2)
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Light/dark theme: some menu icons could display incorrectly
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Layout view: ensure cloned object type goes in same folder as original
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Project Bar: did not immediately re-sort families after renaming
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Audio: volume expression did not take in to account fades
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3D shape: 'Is overlapping' condition did not always pick instances correctly
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Rotate behavior: live preview could incorrectly rotate objects which are not rotatable
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Animations editor: possible memory leak importing large files with multiple animations
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Animations editor: use system clipboard in Safari
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Templates: "Replace whole" context menu options create hierarchies with unexpected Z index ordering
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Templates: replicas lost template reference when cutting and pasting the template instance
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Hierarchies: structures not reproduced correctly when using the "Set from JSON" action
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Could fail to open projects with certain invalid animation folder names (regression r309)

Performance Improvements

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Improve performance of saving folder projects, especially after substantial changes

Scripting updates

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HTML element setScrollPosition() method
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Update autocomplete to prefer suggestions that match case
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Autocomplete 'this.runtime' and 'this.#runtime' the same as 'runtime'
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Add IRuntime properties viewportWidth and viewportHeight
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Add Mouse script methods setCursorStyle(), setCursorObjectClass()
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Add drawing methods to Drawing Canvas script interface
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Add 2 new scripting examples

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  • Any performance improvements when using split string than tokenat() ?

  • Audio: 'Set listener orientation' action for 3D audio support

    Yes!Thank you :D Finally no hacky 3D Audio anymore, great news!

  • Amazing! Great Work!

  • Great update !

    Thanks a lot for the project saving performance improvements, really welcomed bugfixes, Find feature enhancements and it's really nice to see easiers ways to manipulate Data thanks to new Array actions !

  • Could you expand your 'Audio: Set listener orientation'? How will that affect the audio? Will 3d sounds behind the listener sound different than in front?

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      • Ashley
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      Audio has long had a positioned sounds feature, but the listener was always pointing at the layout. It now lets you rotate the listener, e.g. to match a 3D camera. As ever, positioned sounds simulate the sound being in a certain position using a mix of panning and audio processing effects.

  • "context menu option to open the layout containing the original global layer for overriden layer", yippee!

  • Ashley

    New issue related to your update related to search now that it follows the standard behavior of selecting the previously-entered text in the search field (thanks for that) - if the text/textbox is currently active and the user hits Ctrl+F again, it brings up the browser search field.

    There's nothing to provide in an official bug report - just launch C3 from either the browser or desktop link directly and hit Ctrl+F a couple times.

  • Thanks for all the scripting updates and git updates. These are very useful for us (our project uses Typescript to access the C3 scripting interfaces). We have a 4 person team collaborating on the C3 client for our MMO and we use git for our version control. Minimizing unnecessary project files changes due to project saving is very much appreciated! As you do this, if you see any other areas where collaborators might clash due to adding objects, images, etc. I hope that they are addressed (currently we don't have open issues here, since the internal random object/image/instance IDs have been updated a while back.)

  • The description of the "set scroll position" of the HTML element is incorrect

  • "Find bar: select search term when pressing Ctrl+F again" - Was gonna suggest that. Thanks!