How do I redisplay a portion of my screen?

So you essentially want to create a split-screen?

In C2 you could easily do this with Canvas or Paster plugin. C3 has DrawingCanvas, but it can only paste objects at the end of the tick. Which makes it impossible to move DrawingCanvas to a different area, paste objects there, and move back.

Edit: Found a tutorial showing how to make a split screen, it moves all objects to canvas, instead of moving the canvas to object. May not work in some games, but it's still a great solution:

construct.net/en/tutorials/split-screen-construct-addons-2252

Thanks! I was able to make it work, though not as smoothly as I would like. I made the drawing canvas move instead with a second drawing canvas and implemented "wait for previous actions." I wish there was a way to paste with the drawingcanvas from a different position more effectively.

Edit: I got it running smoothly by making drawingcanvas1 invisible

so it looks something like

Every 0.05seconds:

Drawing canvas1-set position (for image to capture)

wait for previous

drawingcanvas1 paste objects

wait for previous

set position (for display)

wait

drawingcanvas2 paste drawingcanvas1

IF you want a live 'jumbotron' of the current action in a game (e.g. a zoom in of a fight), try this effect I created:

construct.net/en/make-games/addons/280/copy

It copies a a region of the screen to a sprite. Place it on 'top' of whatever you want to capture (the other elements must be rendered first.)

Example in action:

twitter.com/kindeyegames/status/1125833321865404416

Mikal It's a great effect, but I can't think of any usage cases for it.. Since it can only copy what's already on the screen, how can I use it in games?

Edit: I can zoom-in on a particular area!