WEBMs instead of Sprites

I've seen a project with hundreds of webm videos.

That's good to know, as I was worried about CPU usage with playing multiple WEBMs simultaneously. If you're at liberty to share any more details about that project, like who is making or it where I could find it, that'd be greatly appreciated.

You can preload multiple videos in multiple instances of Video object

That'd work in a normal Construct 3 project but DaggerQuest is anything but that.

The player character is actually 16 different sprites: (body, head armor, chest armor, leg armor, boots, gloves, main hand, off hand, and shadows for each of those)

and each sprite has 12 animations in 16 different directions:

Ideally what's needed is something similar to the sprite's actions to load and unload images from memory. An action for the Video object to load or unload a project file.

In your first post you mentioned you want to use videos for an idle NPC which doesn't move much. I would definitely not recommend this for the main character, especially modular and with so many different animations.

I feel C3 may not be the right engine for this kind of game.

You're correct, but I'm hesitant as replacing sprites wholesale with WEBMs, while theoretically possible, isn't being done in any other engine or game as far as I'm aware. I'll give it shot but I'll be back to Construct again if it doesn't work. haha

Idea submitted: construct23.ideas.aha.io/ideas/C23-I-229

I think I saw in the latest what’s new video there’s an option to compress images to webm now.

Just know that webm doesn't work on iOS devices.