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This video goes into detail about importing animations and, in the second half, triggering them.

youtu.be/DrjblVRnal0
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(Will be nice to have an edit option for spelling mistakes)

You don't see a red Edit button at the top right of your post?
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That was fun. I got all the way to the top and I'm not particularly fond of platform games.
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I would like for Hierarchy to work in the editor on the stage.

This also bothers me in Construct. When I join items in a program (I've predominantly worked with 3D programs) I expect the parent to move the children in the editor.
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It looks to me like rotating the "Angle" property is actually "rotating on the Z axis" according to the conventions of traditional 3D software (C3 is "Z-up" when you have the camera set parallel to the X/Y plane and use it as the floor). The other axes? No, I don't think that's currently possible.
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YES!! That's exactly what I've been trying to do and your code is so simple. I actually understand it.

Thank you sooooo much!

No problem. I made a 5-level "Doom clone" last Fall with C3 using only the free version's 50 events so I had to keep everything as streamlined as possible.

Ooh, I just got over 1,000 plays in the Construct Arcade!

construct.net/en/free-online-games/vault-peril-32857/play
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C3/Mobile Games

Something like this? It's very simple but might point you in a new direction.

drive.google.com/file/d/17kFMb8gr6VU9zdRBQDScYi1ykRq-glM5/view
dropbox.com/s/f4bil6bfyoorb41/3D_Demo_C3MG_01a.c3p
(Yes, the action in "On start of layout" and "every tick" is the same but all the examples seem to do this.)
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Easiest way seems to be to right-click "Add action" and it's at the bottom.
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The image compression in C3 is supposed to be very efficient (according to Ashley's article below) so if you use a full-scale sprite for development you may not necessarily be wasting space once it's compressed for distribution. You could make test projects with small sprites in one and full-size sprites in another and see what the difference is after export.

This is from section 3, "IMAGE RECOMPRESSION"

"It's also able to losslessly palette-reduce 32-bit PNGs to 8-bit PNGs when the image has 256 colors or fewer, resulting in a much smaller file size, which is particularly effective for art styles which don't use many colors, like retro style pixel art." (emphasis added)

construct.net/en/tutorials/construct-3s-export-optimisations-4
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- bigcatrik
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Neat.

I made a 3D game using Construct's new 3D features with only 50 events, also on a Chromebook. Five levels, multiple enemy types, key/door system.

It really forces one to think efficiently.

construct.net/en/free-online-games/vault-peril-32857/play
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But the point is on first level (layout), the character won't have any weapon but until second level the player able to pick up weapon and use it, or is there any way to include character having weapon start from level two (but the event sheet must same as level one)

If there's an event on the event sheet with no matching object in the layout (like a missing weapon) the event will be ignored. I did this in my recent game Vault of Peril. It uses one event sheet and all the enemy movement is handled on that sheet, but only some enemies appear in each layout. Any layout where they're missing, the events are ignored, it doesn't cause an error.

construct.net/en/free-online-games/vault-peril-32857/play
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IANACE (I am not a Construct expert), but...

The clean way is probably to split your events onto multiple event sheets and use "event sheet includes" to use only the events you want.

construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/events/includes
Another way, if you really want to have only one layout sheet for simplicity or some other reason, would be to use some unique feature of your layout to make conditional events fire. You could check the name of the layout, for example.

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