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• • DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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  • 1 Jul, 2026
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  I took a look at the model and what is happening is that it uses a material with an emissive texture (self lighting), currently we only support diffuse textures.

  Will likely start working on supporting more texture types.

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  This has already been reported in the bug tracker and will be fixed in the next beta.

  Since you mention Firefox doesn't reproduce the error, it's probably a difference in the implementation of Javascript's optional chaining feature.

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  68kStudios

  If the problem is opening the project, it can be useful, even if it's massive. If you don't want to share it in the public tracker, you can send it to support.

• • DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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  Send your project to support, I'll take a look. But without something clear to look out for, there is a low chance I could do anything about it, primarily because at any given time we have a bunch of other things to do.

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  Without any more information I would need to see your project, but there is no guarantee I would be able to do anything about it because I would just be guessing about what is happening.

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  The problem is nothing that you are explicitly doing. I think that what is happening is that an instance that has already been destroyed is being queued to be destroyed again, the runtime normally handles that, but from what I am seeing there could be a problem with that logic that would eventually lead to a crash.

  I am just guessing though, even if that was the problem, there are a few different places that attempt to destroy instances, so it's not easy to pin down the problem without looking at a project.

• • DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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  • 7 May, 2026
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  From what I can see, the crash happens because something with a GetIntances method is undefined, in that path it's either an object type or a family that object type belongs to, neither of those things looks like it could be undefined at that point.

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  I meant what happens in your game that shows the message in console. Maybe hitting a button, changing a layout or something else (it could be anything).

  The first thing I would try is previewing the game with the console open on the side and start playing normally, eventually you should see the red message popping up in the console and that should give you give you a clue about the possible things that could have been taking place when the error showed up.

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  • 7 May, 2026
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  Just from that screenshot is not possible to tell what is going on since that seems to be part of the normal event sheet execution.

  Have you been able to figure out exactly when your game produces the error? That would help narrowing it down.

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  • 23 Apr, 2026
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  When you click on a Family, you are able to add instance variables, behaviours and effects from the Properties bar, which are different to the ones of the object types.

  Having said that, I think there is a subtle bug in there because I couldn't add Tween to the family right away, I had to create a new empty Family, add the Tween behaviour to it and then add the object type.

• • DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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  • 23 Apr, 2026
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  No yet, it's in the TODO list.

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  You are conceptually doing the right thing, but you missed a couple of key ideas when working with families and functions.

  Families

  1. When you use a family to pick instances in a condition block, you then need to use the family in the action block for the picking to work as you expect. If you directly use the object type that is part of the family in the action block, then the picking that took place in the condition block will be lost.
  2. If you want object types to share behaviours, effects or instance variables through a family, you have to add those to the family itself. This connects with the last point, because if the behaviour, effect or instance variable you want to use has not been added to the family, it won't be available to actions for the family.

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/objects/families

  Functions

  You can use the Copy Picked option so that the picked instances in the body of a function will be the same as the picked instances in the action block that called the function. If you don't use this option when the function executes, the picking is reset.

  In your case this ties up with the first point because the picking done by the On Touched condition was done through a family.

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/project-primitives/events/functions

  I updated your project so you can compare it against the old one to see what all of that means in practice!

  drive.google.com/file/d/1KdU6BY1cOFQhfmTXYRcza5LlmWTvcGz1/view

  I felt that making those changes was a little bit clunky, so maybe we will fix that in the future.

• • DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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  • 15 Apr, 2026
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  You can also search for "timeline instances" in the example browser for a quick demo.

• • DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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  Look into this part of the manual.

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/timeline-controller

  The most relevant part is the Set Instance action of the Timeline Controller plugin. With it you can change the instances that a timeline will use before playback.

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• • DiegoM Construct Team Construct 3 Developer
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  The missing animation controls should be easy to add in the future. Right now you could do something using the Progress expression to detect when an animation ends, but it would be fiddly as the value is not guaranteed to hit 1.

  Loading animations separately from models sounds like it's going to be more complex. It was mentioned already so at least it's on our radar.