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  • One way to get a summary of changes over the past few years is to look at all the stable release notes over time. You can also go to the releases page and click a category, e.g. new features or additions, and see all the past changes of that type since then.

    For example a stable release from about 4 years ago is r302. Some of the biggest new features since then are:

    • 3D models
    • 3D editor
    • Custom actions
    • Instances bar
    • Asset Browser
    • Flowcharts editor (good for conversation trees, finite-state machines, etc)
    • New plugins: Construct Game Services, Clipboard, QR Code, Cryptography, File System, CSV, Internationalization, MIDI, BBC micro:bit, Steamworks, Epic Games
    • Show icons in Text objects
    • Dynamic layers (add/remove layers at runtime)
    • HTML layers (show sprites on top of HTML objects)
    • Support for coding with TypeScript
    • Linux CEF export option (also supports Steam Deck)
    • Tile randomization

  • I have a project that works perfectly in 476.4 but not in 487.

    As I said before, one of the most helpful things you can do is test every beta release in between those release numbers, and identify the specific release number the problem first started in. That can narrow it down from hundreds of potential changes to maybe a dozen.

    You can also speed things up by testing the half-way point - e.g. test r481, if it works then test half way between that and r487, if it doesn't then test half way between that and r476.4, etc. So you split the range in half each time.

  • It sounds like a bug - please file an issue and we'll look in to it.

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  • Folks - we're happy to help but unfortunately there is just nothing we can do if you only write a forum post saying something's broken. Please file an issue if you can. If you really can't figure out the problem from a new project, you can send your full project to supportdnd@construct.net where we will do our best, but it is often impossible to work out what is wrong from a large and complex project, which is why our bug report guidelines ask for a minimal project.

  • In general, if you run in to a problem, please file an issue following all the guidelines. If you are able to provide all that information, frequently issues can be resolved within minutes. Otherwise it is significantly harder and can take weeks or months to establish the problem.

    It is also particularly helpful if you can test every beta release from the previous stable release to the latest stable release, and determine which specific release something stopped working in. That usually narrows down the scope of potential changes from months of work to just a week's work.

  • Due to a known outstanding issue with WebView2, we've implemented a workaround for the time being using GameInput to read gamepad input with Steam exports. See the section on gamepad support in the Steamworks plugin documentation - the tl;dr is you need to run the GameInput installer as part of the game install process. Once you do that it should have broad support for all kinds of gamepads, as GameInput is a superset of all prior APIs (XInput, DirectInput, Raw Input, HID and WinRT) and can read gamepads supporting any of those technologies.

  • The ideal outcome is that my mouse pointer sprite is positioned exactly where the cursor physically is

    I don't believe this is actually possible with any technology. IIRC, the system mouse cursor is rendered with a special low-latency hardware overlay that bypasses much of the existing rendering system to allow things like continuing to respond when the app/system is busy/hung. On the other hand any app on the system itself will go through the usual GPU rendering pipeline, which usually includes something like double-buffering to ensure a smooth display, but at the cost of some extra latency. This is basically a consequence of how modern operating systems are designed - it's nothing specific to Construct or web technology.

    The only way to display something truly at the mouse cursor position with no delay is to set the cursor image as R0J0hound suggested. Anything else at all on the system will be subject to latency.

  • Construct has a time-unlimited free edition you can use as much as you like. You can do small scale experiments and learning projects within the free edition limits. The pricing is around the same as a Netflix standard plan, which I think is reasonable.

  • It would probably still put us out of business. On the whole if people don't have to pay then they won't. If you give people a free option they can use instead of paying, then naturally a lot of people will just choose that and then we potentially lose out on a whole load of sales and then we might not be able to sustain the company.

  • In particular, I’ve noticed that when I double-click on the desired spot in the code, the view in the editor always jumps all the way to the top, to the first line of the script.

    It shouldn't be doing that - perhaps it's a bug. If Construct isn't doing something right, please file an issue.

  • Are you sure it's the mouse polling rate and not just frame latency, which would add the kind of delay you describe? The lower the framerate the higher the latency from input to rendering, and the higher the framerate the lower the latency. Construct uses high-frequency polling specifically to reduce the input latency (via pointerrawupdate) and I just checked that on my system, even though the display is refreshing at 60 Hz, mouse input is being received at ~125 Hz.

  • That would most likely put us out of business.

    I think we're unique in the industry as being one of the only independent, self-funded game development tools. We're not backed by a billion-dollar company or investors. It gives us the freedom to avoid being obliged to do things like ram unnecessary AI features into the software, but we do need to make a living and pay our bills.

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