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  • 26 Feb, 2019
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  FYI ima3.js is not part of Construct, so presumably this is caused by third-party addons or customisations.

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  • 26 Feb, 2019
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  This page has a list of what's new in C3 over C2. In addition to that C3 has an entirely new runtime with huge performance improvements and major new features, which is detailed in this blog post.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  The tutorial How to publish mobile apps covers a few of the options.

  App bundles are kind of interesting for the larger app size you can publish, but right now I think you'd have to do an export via Android Studio to use that.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  Oops, I missed it - too many other things going on... I'll get it in for the next beta. A delay might be worthwhile anyway since there have been some reports on the bug tracker that there may also be issues with WebGL 2 on Mali devices in the browser too, which is a new case.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  This file is still returning 404 not found: https://at-games.seashelltrust.org.uk/assets/MathsWeek2019/box2d.wasm

  Check the server MIME types cover the .wasm extension. Sometimes servers return 404 not found if they don't recognise it.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  The 'Set color' action modifies the RGB components. The 'Set opacity' action modifies the A component.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  If you open the browser console (press F12) a couple of files return 404 not found. So it looks like you forgot to upload some files.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  Construct Classic had it and lots of people liked it. Also the built-in opacity setting is actually a multiply based on a single alpha value. If you extend the alpha value to a vector4 to cover RGBA then it's still one multiply and you get a tint effect too, so you kind of get it for free. This way it's also faster than using a tint effect.

  Added effects always render after everything else - they operate on how the object looks without any effects, which includes things like opacity and the built-in color.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  The projection code is really complicated and there's a lot of it all across the engine. This would mean having two different projection modes to switch between, which is quite a lot of complicated work. If it's almost the same as the normal layer parallax, I think it would be hard to justify the work. As a small team opportunity cost rules everything.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  In Construct 3's new runtime Tilemaps are probably be 10-100x faster to draw than an equivalent grid of sprites. In C2 there is still an improvement but it's considerably less. Tilemaps also have dedicated editing tools in the editor.

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  • 25 Feb, 2019
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  I already answered this here and also separately pointed out PhoneGap Build is not the only option left.

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  • 24 Feb, 2019
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  PhoneGap Build is not the only option. You can also use the Cordova CLI or use C3 to build C2 mobile exports. I think there are other third-party services out there too.

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  • 24 Feb, 2019
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  Well, the same applies to C2 exports too.

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  • 24 Feb, 2019
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  Construct's built-in export options run great on the majority of modern devices. Additionally it supports all features (some variants of Cocoon's exports only supported a small subset of features, as well as introducing bugs).

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  • 24 Feb, 2019
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  No, the built-in color property uses a built-in shader that does a multiply on the colors being rendered. Actually now you mention it the names are confusing - the 'Set color' action modifies the built-in 'color' property, which does a multiply, which is essentially the 'Tint' effect. However the 'Set color' shader effect replaces the RGB color channels when rendering.

  No shaders actually affect the texture held in memory - they just apply processing when it's rendered. As a result you can use different effect parameters, and different built-in color properties, on individual instances.