Construct Animate r450

Notes

In order to ensure we can keep improving Construct in the long term, it's important to eventually retire some features. This release is a significant compatibility milestone as we are retiring legacy features: support for 32-bit platforms on Windows, and the legacy "flat" export file structure. These features will remain supported in the r449 LTS releases, which will continue to be supported for another 18 months.

We've now also enabled the WebGPU renderer by default as it is on the cusp of broad support across all major browsers and platforms, and as of this release, all known bugs with the WebGPU renderer have been fixed. This ensures projects take advantage of the latest web graphics technology, based on the Vulkan, DirectX 12 and Metal generation of APIs. This includes the editor, which now renders the Layout View with WebGPU as well (where supported). This blog post has more details about the improvements with WebGPU, and there are a number of other improvements since that was published, which we'll cover in another blog soon. As another change to modernize the default settings, Construct now also enables the AVIF image format by default for lossy images on export, as it is broadly supported and very good at reducing download sizes.

Other improvements in this beta include a new example, and also a redesigned text layout engine designed to significantly improve performance in dynamic cases such as constantly scaling or re-wrapping a large amount of text - but keep an eye out in case anything works differently to before. It's a big release with a lot of significant changes so bear with us if things go wrong, but happy testing!