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• • alastair
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  • 24 Oct, 2025
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  The previous suggestion expired, feel free to upvote if you want to still see it:

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/660

• • alastair
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  dop2000 you should make a suggestion here for it!

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues

• • alastair
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  dop2000 custom conditions sounds interesting, but no ideas come to mind for it. I'm not quite sure I understand your example, isn't that basically a varible or boolean check?

• • alastair
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  Please consider upvoting this feature suggestion so we can make custom expressions for objects

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/660

  (old one here: github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/355)

• • alastair
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  Over the years there's been a lot of really great Construct 3 tips scattered around various places/sites.

  But would it be helpful if we had something like a more central community wiki that anyone can easily add things to?

  So it's easier to find tips.

• • alastair
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  XHXIAIEIN Tips like this are super valuable. I think people really need something like a Construct Cookbook or CheatSheet that shows the best practices for doing things the right way.

  Maybe this is something the community would be good at putting together rather than Scirra?

  Since the community are the ones trying to squeeze out the performance in real projects, whereas Scirra is just making the tool and is probably not use to the same challenges that we are use to facing.

• • alastair
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  > So more features, hmmm I don't know about that, depends who you ask.

  Depends on the feature

  There's hundreds of features the community wants to see and is waiting paitently for:

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues

• • alastair
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  The community wants to see more features added, not the removal of features! 🙏

• • alastair
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  ah ok, thanks for the reply

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• • alastair
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  thanks for testing it out!

  Also can do without disabling groups as you can compare each Group's performance in the CPU tab while debugger is open:

  
• • alastair
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  system conditions/expressions don't do picking, so they're faster.

• • alastair
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  also a commonly forgotten feature is the ability to change the collision cell size with a system action (e.g. at start of layout).

  It defaults to the size of the screen, which is usually too big.

  So reducing it to roughly x2 the common object size is probably going to help boost performance as well.

• • alastair
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  Valve addresses this:

  partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/overlay

  Q. My game runs in a browser. Can the Overlay work in that?

  A. The Steam Overlay requires a game consistently render frames, not pausing rendering or rendering only part of the screen based on dirty rects. Unfortunately, web browsers do not support this model. A workaround for web based games is to host an embedded Chromium inside a native application, with a D3D window and input forwarding to the embedded Chromium. That can be setup to render in offscreen mode, which then renders the resulting chromium texture each frame in the native app. Partners often use CEF to do this, though this is not an easy task.

• • alastair
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  At the moment it seems to be that way. It doesn't work with the steam overlay.

  There is also the Pipelab addon though. Some people use Pipelab successfully with Steam. I think "Noobs Are Coming" might be using it.

• • alastair
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  Webview2 doesn't work well with Steam. I'd recommend not using it.

  The developers have arbitarily decided that we're not allowed to access NWJS in new versions.