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  • New in R398.2 is the Instance Bar, a new way to view and organize all the instances in a layout. Next, a short description about some of the features off the top of my head.

    Hierarchies

    One of the bar's primary objectives is to help visualize and build complex hierarchies, which can get a little bit tedious and confusing just by using the layout view. Hierarchies can be made by dragging and dropping tree items on top of each other and also by dragging an instance from the layout view into the Instance Bar.

    Folders

    The other main feature is that now there is a way to organize instances in a folder structure which is independent of how they look in the layout and has no impact at runtime.

    Additional Information

    A secondary feature is showing, in a compact way, information which was previously not easy to see at a glance. By left clicking on the bottom of the bar or right clicking anywhere else, you can bring up a context menu option called "Show more information for", to toggle additional information about each instance, such as if they are a template or belong to a timeline among a few others. This was done like this because there is quite a bit of this instance specific information and showing it all at the same time could become messy very quickly.

    Search

    The search bar at the top of the bar can be used to search by the display name of items, if there is no match with the display name though, the search will also attempt to match, with the object type name, the plugin name or any tags an instance might have. Typing a layer name will filter the tree to show only the instances in that layer.

    Additionally there are a couple of "special" search terms. Typing "mesh" (or the translated name if you are not using C3 in English) will search for all the meshes in the layout. Something similar happens with the word "hierarchy", which filters the tree to show only the root level hierarchies.

    Tags

    The bar also has a minor integration with the new Tags feature. Any instance which has tags will show the first tag as it's display name instead of the object type name which is shown by default. The other tags can still be used in the search bar though!

    Global layers

    There are a couple of features which are not obvious and they have to do with how the bar displays instances coming from global layers. If any, these instances are also shown, but in a slightly different way because as it turns out, showing them like any other instance caused some problems. When toggling the "Layers & Layouts" options, an icon will be shown next to global instances to quickly identify them.

    Under certain conditions, items in the tree might become highlighted in red. This cases are tied to global layers. Since it's possible to make hierarchies from instances in a local layer to instances in a global layer, it is possible for an instance to show up in hierarchy, but be no where to be seen, those instances will be highlighted and toggling the "Layers & Layouts" options will tell you a little bit more information about what is happening.

    Another edge case caused by global layers is that a hierarchy might only be shown partially, because the rest of it comes from another layout, that case is highlighted as well.

    Performance

    Due to an initial bone headed implementation the bar is quite sluggish when a layout has a lot of instances. That is already being fixed.

    I think that's all about it. If you have any feedback or have already written some elsewhere, it is a good idea to put it in here so everything is in the same place.

  • Going to have to take a closer look on this one, because it doesn't look right at all.

    Thanks for the example project, it will be very useful to figure out what is going on.

  • The plugin hasn't received any changes in the loading process in over 2 years.

    Since initialization needs access to remote resources unexpected problems which we can't control can be introduced at any time.

    On top of that the plugin needs to do this on start up, so it can show the consent dialog for GDPR as soon as possible.

  • This sounds like a subtle bug.

    The icon is supposed to be updated when you close the animations editor after making changes, when you change the initial animation or initial frame from the properties bar and when you undo/redo any of those changes.

    The best is to file a bug in our tracker, and make sure to include the reproduction steps.

  • You can see it for yourself by saving two different files, one with the property checked and another one unchecked.

    If you then open the TMX files with a text editor you'll be able to see they are different. C3 only understands the save format when the properly is unchecked.

  • I think checking the map property "Infinite" substantially alters the format in which the tile data is saved and C3 doesn't understand it.

  • I think this might have something to do with a browser extension.

    Try disabling them one at a time and export each time to see if any of them is the one causing the problem.

  • C3's support for TMX files was from before TSX files even existed. Before that, tileset information and tilemap information where all in the same TMX file.

    At one point it was brought up that some people were not able to load TMX files generated by the then latest version (can't remember the number now) of Tiled, and it was because TSX files were introduced and the new default was to generate separate files for maps and tilesets.

    I would need to check it to be sure because I haven't seen that part of the code in a while now, but I think that the importer checks the TMX file and if it finds tileset information in it, it uses that. If it doesn't, it needs it to be provided in a separate TSX file. That's why the tileset input is labelled as optional.

    I don't know exactly how it is in the latest version of Tiled, but last time I checked when you created a new tileset there was a check box named "Embed in map". When ticked all the tileset information is stored in the TMX file and if not it is separated to a TSX file.

    If you want to embed a tileset there is a button in the Tilesets pane to do that, I imagine that just pressing it will make it so that saving the tilemap will generate a new TMX with all the information.

    If you have an embeded tileset and want to remove it, there is a button to export the tileset into a TSX file, after exporting it you can use the option to replace an existing embeded tileset with the external one.

  • Try removing spaces from the executable name, I don't know if it will work but it's worth a try just to be sure.

  • Here is an idea, try keeping your current logic, so the enemies won't home in directly on the player, additionally continually measure the distance between the player and the enemy using the System distance expression.

    When the distance is close enough, you can start doing a different movement logic that looks more attack-like rather than slowly approaching the target.

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    The first thing to look out for with this kind of issues is making sure the devices have an updated browser and updated graphics drivers.

    Old GPU drivers are the number one cause of weird graphical problems that seem to make no sense.

  • Can you share your project? This sounds like an oversight of timelines, but I would like to check what is it you are trying to do to be sure.

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