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• • alastair
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  • 15 Nov, 2025
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  it was a popular feature request on github a couple of years ago:

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/65

  Yeah this is important I think.

  Sometimes the shared icons cause me bugs because I see the icon of an object in my code, and think it's an object that it's not.

  At a glance, these 2 objects look the same, but if you look closely the names are actually referring to different objects:

  

  It's something that Construct could learn from Clickteam's products, they allowed for custom icons.

  You could change the icons of a Family! ("qualifier")

  
• • alastair
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  • 12 Nov, 2025
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  +1

  Initial impressions is that it felt like they stayed open too long, and even when I click on something on the other side of the screen it still stayed open.

• • alastair
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  • 24 Oct, 2025
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  The previous suggestion expired, feel free to upvote if you want to still see it:

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/660

• • alastair
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  • 23 Oct, 2025
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  dop2000 you should make a suggestion here for it!

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues

• • alastair
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  dop2000 custom conditions sounds interesting, but no ideas come to mind for it. I'm not quite sure I understand your example, isn't that basically a varible or boolean check?

• • alastair
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  Please consider upvoting this feature suggestion so we can make custom expressions for objects

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/660

  (old one here: github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues/355)

• • alastair
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  • 10 Oct, 2025
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  Over the years there's been a lot of really great Construct 3 tips scattered around various places/sites.

  But would it be helpful if we had something like a more central community wiki that anyone can easily add things to?

  So it's easier to find tips.

• • alastair
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  XHXIAIEIN Tips like this are super valuable. I think people really need something like a Construct Cookbook or CheatSheet that shows the best practices for doing things the right way.

  Maybe this is something the community would be good at putting together rather than Scirra?

  Since the community are the ones trying to squeeze out the performance in real projects, whereas Scirra is just making the tool and is probably not use to the same challenges that we are use to facing.

• • alastair
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  > So more features, hmmm I don't know about that, depends who you ask.

  Depends on the feature

  There's hundreds of features the community wants to see and is waiting paitently for:

  github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/issues

• • alastair
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  The community wants to see more features added, not the removal of features! 🙏

• • alastair
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  ah ok, thanks for the reply

• • alastair
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  thanks for testing it out!

  Also can do without disabling groups as you can compare each Group's performance in the CPU tab while debugger is open:

  

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• • alastair
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  system conditions/expressions don't do picking, so they're faster.

• • alastair
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  also a commonly forgotten feature is the ability to change the collision cell size with a system action (e.g. at start of layout).

  It defaults to the size of the screen, which is usually too big.

  So reducing it to roughly x2 the common object size is probably going to help boost performance as well.