2D and 3D fragment lighting, close to being fully supported and vote!

Not just lighting, you can even use them to draw.

Draw a painting, a sprite... a map.

I only found one addon useful for creating colored lights, but it only propagates the light in a circular manner, here I see cone lighting, having the ability to illuminate objects would be a big step forward for Construct, I never understood why it isn't there an integrated light system, I will have to register on github!

Ashley any thoughts on this? With your new change we are so close to just having a new effect for lighting. If you are concerned about compatibility, perhaps only use different vertex shader with the aPos pass through when the effect has direct-3d rendering enabled?

A new, very cool example from Dokse, also uses a form of light pooling to have a lot of lights scattered around the environment (e.g. more that the 8 available in the effect.)

Please comment Ashley . It seems a lot of work is going on by Mikal to help expand C3. The least you can do is take a minute to respond.

I do agree, but no need to ask Scirra to comment, they'll see it, it's the most upvoted suggestion ever!

I feel if they gave special treatment to someone that works very hard, then this would set a precedent to always comment on any 3rd party dev that works hard, else upset certain devs if they worked very hard but then Scirra avoid commenting. Better to treat everyone equally and however Scirra choose to handle suggestions (whether they check them out every month or 2 or whatever).

We are all excited and at the edge of our seats to see a response - it will come!

It's difficult to comment on suggestions. They can seem simple but turn out really hard. Sometimes they can seem difficult but turn out not too hard. You don't really know for sure until you actually implement it. Having said that, the effects system is one of the most complicated parts of Construct and very difficult to work with, and on top of that at the moment we are maintaining two renderers - WebGL and WebGPU - which means any graphics features have to be implemented twice with considerably different technologies. So overall I would say this would be a complicated change, regardless of what anyone claims about it. I'd add that we do not really want to end up making a full 3D engine - that would involve years of work and potentially amount to an entirely new kind of product, and I think we're already seeing a stream of "just one more 3D thing... just one more 3D thing..." that is trying to push us all the way down that road, and I'd rather not go very far down that road. Finally I must point out that for this and other reasons, the feature request guidelines state that we do not guarantee implementation of features, even for the top voted ones.

Some more non-light examples that would be possible:

Snow shader:

Height fog:

Update here's another suggestion to vote on, in case the other one is not implemented (it is more flexible than the other one.) Please vote if you like the possibilities you see here:

github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/180

Another example (added to the 8 frag effect):

Directional Light (acts like a 'sun' light).

I like what you are doing, and would love to see it in C3, but is there any point voting?