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Construct 3 r425

Tilemap patch brushes; flowcharts, templates & scripting updates; lots of bug fixes

04 February, 2025 ()

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Notes

It's the start of a new release cycle, and we have another packed update for you in this week's beta release! First of all you can now use patch brushes with Tilemaps in both the editor and runtime. Flowcharts now have an option to disable outputs. Templates now support the effects 'Enabled' property. And there's much more, including a big batch of bug fixes, notably around Drawing Canvas, CJK IME in the Parameters Dialog, and several other parts of the editor user interface.

Another key change in this release is we've changed the minify tool used on export from UglifyJS to terser. This is actually a fork of UglifyJS so it should work very similarly, but in our testing we've found it works better for Construct, has fewer issues, and appears to be better supported. However as it is a different tool, be on the lookout for any new issues regarding minifying.

Another change is that with HTML layers, changing element's Z order could sometimes reset the element, such as reloading iframes, or resetting videos or scroll positions. Thanks to a new web platform feature, elements can now be reordered without resetting - at least in Chrome 133+, and support should come to other browsers in future. It's a small but useful way to make it easier to use HTML content in Construct projects.

Finally there are some more scripting APIs, and there's also the ability to dynamically change layer rendering modes. Happy testing!

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New Additions

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Tilemaps: new 'patch' brush to be used in the editor and at runtime
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Flowcharts: option to disable outputs
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[ADD] Timeline Controller: add new parameter to 'On started' triggers to have more control over when actions are executed
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Templates: support effects 'Enabled' property
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System action 'Set layer rendering mode'

Changes

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Change minify tool on export from UglifyJS to terser
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HTML layers: preserve element state when changing Z order where browser supports (currently Chrome 133+)
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Tilemaps: allow using drawing tools when the pointer goes outside the boundaries of the instance being edited

Bug Fixes

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Addon Manager: buttons in the lower part of the dialog hard to click in the dark and light themes
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Drawing Canvas: 'Paste object' with effects not displaying correctly in fixed resolution mode
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Drawing Canvas: 'Paste object' with a Text object with effects appeared misaligned
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Drawing Canvas: 'Paste object' could have slight pixel misalignment in some cases
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Drawing Canvas: surface device size could sometimes be 1px larger than necessary
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Layout View: dragging instance from Project Bar with no template set did not always match runtime default instance
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Parameters dialog: CJK IME could sometimes duplicate the first character
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Parameters dialog: CJK IME did not always trigger autocomplete
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Deprecated features dialog displayed incorrectly and could not be closed on mobile
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Tweens: tween paused during an 'On Ping Pong' trigger could not be resumed
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Tweens: loading from JSON breaking tweens in some cases
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Move To: moving along a curved path not working in some conditions
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Timeline Controller: Time expression returning imprecise values when used on triggers
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Timeline bar: play head marker unexpectedly moving to the beginning of the timeline
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Templates: changing template properties not updating effects on the Layout View
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Animations editor: palette swatch size setting not working correctly
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Animations editor: replacing all animation after importing frames incorrectly updating related Sprite instances size (regression r417)
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Instances bar: scrolling not working properly if the bar is made to be narrow

Scripting updates

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Add ILayer.renderingMode
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Add IDrawingCanvasInstance.saveImage()
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Add IRuntime.saveCanvasImage()
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Deprecate IRuntime.createWorker() (use nested workers instead)

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  • Thank you so much for fixing the long standing Drawing Canvas issues, it looks like everything is completely fixed from what I've tested so far. Wohooo! This makes me so happy :D

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!

  • Nice work, squash those bugs!

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    I absolutely love the patch brush! Thank you! One suggestion is to allow 1x1 patch brushes because currently you can't create a "paintable" brush of a single tile with multiple variations. If you use a 2x2 patch brush you can't "paint" with it cause a lot of the tiles get overwritten. Maybe even better allow for a single tile auto-tile brush (Auto 1). Then we could paint single tiles that have multiple variations!

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      Do you mean this for the editor or runtime? At runtime the new action to paint with a patch brush has a parameter that allows you to decide what should happen with empty tiles.

      • For both, but mostly for the editor. If you have an "empty" tile in a brush then it will overwrite existing tiles, but since it's invalid in the brush it just erases the existing tile.

        Also I tried using the patch brush at runtime and setting "invalid indexes" to "ignore" doesn't seem to work. It still overwrites existing tiles.

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  • Is disabling outputs in flowcharts just for mirroring the functionality in event sheets? Or would there be events for enabling and disabling outputs at runtime (similar to toggling event groups as active/inactive)?

    Or maybe this is something you would rather envision using events to change node tags for, and using those tags in conditions? (I don't know, I'm still in the process of figuring out how to work flowcharts into my projects.)

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      Disabling outputs in the editor is a convenience more than anything else, to avoid outright deleting a part of a flowchart if you are not sure if you want to keep it around or not.

      It's also the first step to being able to disable entire nodes of a flowchart, also for convenience.

      I don't think there will be events to disable outputs at runtime because that would just fall into how the information in the flowchart is consumed. If your runtime logic says an output shouldn't be followed, then it effectively is disabled.