Spriter

• Fixed a long standing bug where alpha values weren't multiplying correctly resulting in odd rendering in self-draw mode
• Changed the default value for blend mode to use effects blend mode. This value should always be used, but we will keep the option in there to avoid breaking old projects

• Fixes a number of issues with importing certain projects

• Fixed bug (introduced when multi-spritesheet import was added) that prevented non-self-draw zip files from being imported.

• Fixed a bug where projects could sometimes freeze on single atlas image projects in newer versions of C3

• Added support for multiple spritesheets (make sure all sprite sheet json files are in zip)

• Fixed a bug where attempting to reimport a Spriter project with any spaces in an object name would cause the plugin to duplicate the object instead of replacing it

Marked as beta because it changes the way object initialization works.

• Fixed a bug where starting a layout after a .scon file had been pre-cached on a previous start of layout could cause multiple scml instances to share the same container siblings.

• Added Remove Character Map action to remove a single character map

Thanks to @Chadori for this update (https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/general-discussion-7/spriter-c3-addon-2-4-2021-bug-130240/page-29#forumPost1034273)

• updated the plugin for compliance with the new advanced closure compiler requirements (minification)
• fixed a bug that would cause the game to become unresponsive when using the expression 'playToTimeLeft'

• fixed bug where overrides applied during blends wouldn't work correctly
• optimized frame changing by removing unnecessary frame change attempts

• Fixed a bug where using Override Bones With IK would freeze the game
• Fixed a bug where using bezier curves in an animation would freeze the game

• Added action to Load from URL to load projects at runtime

• Deprecated the superfluous actions for Set Opacity and Set Visible, and for the Opacity expression. The extra ACEs won't be there in projects that weren't already using them, but if they were already in your project they will remain there. Note: If you were using the extra opacity action (rather than the built in one that will remain), then opacity was being applied twice, so opacity actions will need to be adjusted accordingly to maintain the same result.
• Fixed a bug where opacity and visibility weren't being applied for non-self-draw mode

• Fixed a bug where spriter objects that retrieved animation info from cache would remain invisible if paused on start of layout
• Added a workaround for a Construct 3 SDK bug where under certain circumstances, after restarting a layout, two instances could share the same IID. This would prevent sprites from becoming associated with their corresponding Spriter objects, and thus not animate

• fixed a bug which caused pause actions that took place before an animation was retrieved from cache to be ignored

• fixed an additional bug where sometimes scml objects would become invisible after a non-looping animation completed

• fixed a bug where animations wouldn't start playing automatically when using the Set Animation action
• fixed a bug where scml objects would become invisible after a non-looping animation completed

• added support for nearest neighbor sampling (automatic when set in C3 project properties)
• fixed a bug that caused reimports for projects with collision boxes to crash C3
• fixed a bug that prevented reimports from removing sprites that were no longer needed if they had a hyphen in their original image filename

This release is in beta since there are multiple new features, and reimporting specifically is a fairly involved feature. This release relies on new C3 features and will only work with C3 version R221 and above.

Additions:

• Added ability to reimport projects, keeping events for objects that still exist
• Added condition : Compare Second Animation (thanks @chadorireborn)
• Added action : Stop/Resume Setting Sprite and Box Collisions
• Added action : Stop/Resume Setting Sprite and Box Visibility
• Added property : blend mode - choose between no premultiplied alpha blend (the usual default), and using whatever is set under the effects blend mode property - using normal blend under the effects mode might solve some rendering issues for some projects. Otherwise, use the default if you're not trying to add a special blend mode.

• Fixed mistakenly reverted changes

• fixed a bug where restarting a layout could sometimes stop with an error sometimes when fetching the pre-loaded animations
• fixed a bug where 'ignore layout time scale' wasn't having any effect

• Added support for self-drawing sub-entities

• Fixed a bug where opacity wasn't applied correctly to parts in self draw mode

• Fixed multiple bugs that were causing unnecessary cpu usage for paused animations
• Slight refactoring to allow for quicker performance troubleshooting in future builds
• Fixed a bug where restarting a layout with an scml plugin could cause the layout to freeze
• Fixed a bug where alpha values weren't applied to sprites

• Fixed a bug where the Construct would remove hyphens from object names, which led to the plugin crashing when it looked for the original hyphenated names

• Fixed a bug where self-drawing instances with effects applied would not render at all.

• Fixed a playback bug with quintic easing curves

• Fixed a bug where overriding animations would cause the project to freeze
• Fixed version number

• Fixed a compatability issue with C3 version 153

• Fixed a bug where animation playback for paused entities wouldn't automatically resume with Set Animation action

• Fixed a bug where the plugin would continue to attempt to load the scon file while the first attempt was still running, causing poor performance and high ram usage.

• Fixed a bug where pausing an animation upon creation for the first instance of an scml object wouldn't take effect

• removed some console log messages used to debug the previous version

• Fixed a bug where destroying the first instance of an scml object in the same tick as its creation, would make it so newly created instances would attempt to load from a missing cached copy (no animation data would load and the object would remain invisible)

• Fixed bug where pinning an object had no effect

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• Fixed a bug that would crash the game when attempting to use the Pin to Object actions

• Fixed more z-ordering bugs (There still isn't a supported way to change z-order in the sdk, so there are likely still issues that will be resolved when the sdk is updated. Ashley has been made aware of the missing functionality)
• Fixed a bug where default pivot points were not being applied to animations when using separate sprites

additions

• added support for z-elevation

bug fixes

• fixed a crash that happened when restarting or switching layouts
• fixed a bug where actions or other update activity needed to be taking place in order for animation to work
• fixed multiple z-ordering bugs
• fixed a bug where animation blending wasn't working

• fixed a bug that made it so the plugin would continue attempting to load a file while a load was already in progress (with Cordova exports)
• fixed a bug where changing layouts to one where the project was already cached could cause it to ignore the 'starting animation' property and default to the first animation in the entity instead

• Fixed a bug that prevented the plugin from initializing on Cordova iOS builds

• Fixed a bug that prevented events from triggering

(fixed from 11-27-2018 release)

• Fixed action to choose whether sprite layers were set by the plugin
• Fixed edge cases with triggers and sounds
• Added pin object actions

Sound Import now fully working

• Importer now works in C3 by dragging in a zip of your project. The zip and the scon file must have the same base filename (e.g. myProj.zip and myProj.scon)
• You can drag in either a modular project or an atlas project and the plugin will automatically import the correct way
• If you have a hybrid project (atlas for images, but also sounds and/or collision boxes), this will also automatically be handle
• If your project has sounds, the necessary sound playback events will automatically be added
• You no longer need a separate scml file to import modular projects

Note : Until I hear back from Scirra on a fix, you will have to manually reimport sounds even though they show up as imported in the project panel. I apologize for the inconvenience.