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Cross-fading 3D model animations; project-wide layer updates; new demo game
02 September, 2026 ()
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In this release the 3D model object now supports cross-fading animations, allowing a smooth appearance as animations change, rather than suddenly snapping to a new animation. We've also got two new features to make project-wide layer updates. While global layers manage the content of layers, managing your actual layer list across many layouts in a large project could become a headache, and these features are designed to resolve that. First of all the new replicate layer across project option in the Layers Bar will find all other layers in the project with the same name and update their layer properties and sub-layers to match. This adds, removes and moves sub-layers by their name - but that means renaming a layer will be treated as deleting the layer and adding a new empty one. To fix that case, there's also a separate rename layer across project option. Hopefully these allow for easier management of layer trees across a large project. Please note as these make changes across your entire project, we recommend making a backup of your project before using them, as if anything goes wrong it could leave you with a lot of cleanup work.
We've also got a great new demo game Arcane Express making use of Construct's new 3D features, and a few other changes and bug fixes. Happy testing!
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Launch r501
New Additions
3D model: cross-fade between the previous and the next animation
New demo game 'Arcane Express'
Layers Bar: option to replicate layer (and all sub-layers) across entire project
Layers Bar: option to rename layer across entire project
Changes
'Set position to another object' now updates Z co-ordinate
3D light: update description for reference distance
Bug Fixes
Folder projects: could become unopenable if saved after moving project file referenced in event sheets
Sprite: image point position did not take in to account 3D rotation
Crash renaming behaviors/effects (regression r500)
Drawing Canvas: pasting objects with effects working incorrectly in fixed resolution mode (regression r491)
3D model: restoring from JSON not working as expected
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