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    The current status of WebGPU support is in this thread which is kept up-to-date as the situation changes. I would like to see WebGPU enabled by default by the end of the year, but it may happen sooner or later than that depending on how the roll-out process goes.

    As this thread was originally for preliminary documentation which has now been moved to the manual, closing it.

  • That code will still work in TypeScript, but you will lose access to instance variables, behaviors and effects unique to the object classes, as those come from the type definitions on the class in the InstanceType namespace.

    It's still possible to have it work though - essentially this comes down to multiple inheritance (e.g. you want PlayerInstance to derive from both InstanceType.Player and Entity), and if you look up mixins you should find a couple of ways to approach that. Where possible I'd recommend composition over inheritence though - i.e. make an Entity a property of the class rather than a base class.

  • The change was made for TypeScript support. When using TypeScript, Construct generates TypeScript definitions for every object class including types for instance variables, behaviors and effects. As these are all different for every object class, it has to generate a separate base class for every type of object class, hence InstanceType.Player rather than a generic ISpriteInstance. However InstanceType.Player only has type definitions for TypeScript, and (assuming it's a Sprite object) itself derives from ISpriteInstance. So if you're using JavaScript there's basically no difference. The main reason to change it is to keep everything consistent, so if you change to TypeScript or back again you can continue to write code the same way. If it would be a pain to update all your code though, you can just leave it and it should keep working the same.

  • Please don't go out of line and remember who your product is aimed at and who pays an annual subscription for it.

    The education market makes up around half our business. Teachers want features like the BBC micro:bit and have been excited to see it added.

  • I can't see anything wrong in what you've described. As ever, the quickest way to get help is to share a project file demonstrating the problem so we can try it ourselves.

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  • Look at the manual entry and you'll see loadImagePixelData() must be passed an ImageData object as a parameter. However your code passes it an array with four elements.

  • When you preview, only spritesheets changed since the last preview need to be regenerated. So if you preview, close, then preview again, the next preview should be very fast as it essentially skips the preparing images phase. So it should already be skipping the vast majority of images, and given that, the setting you propose would probably have little effect. It is also designed to limit how many spritesheets it processes in parallel, specifically in order to limit the peak memory usage and avoid out-of-memory errors, while also working in parallel making use of multi-core CPUs in order to process as quickly as possible. So I have to wonder why this is a problem for you - are you constantly changing large amounts of images in between every preview? Are you dealing with lots of extremely high resolution images or something?

  • To prevent abuse, both windows and iframes cannot normally assign focus to themselves automatically. The user must click or touch inside an iframe to intentionally give it focus. You can encourage that with a "click here to start" type button. Unfortunately as gamepads aren't able to specifically direct input to a window, I don't think you can use a gamepad to transfer focus.

    One exception may be that the parent frame may be able to transfer its own focus to the iframe with something like iframeElem.contentWindow.focus(). That might require a user input too, but I'm not sure, I can't remember the browser rules around that off the top of my head.

  • As fewer browsers support Ogg than WebM, if Construct exported Ogg, it would cause worse compatibility issues for publishing your project. WebM Opus is near-universally supported by all browsers now, and after years of resistance from Apple, is the only free and open audio codec to reach that point.

  • It sounds like you are using an exceptionally large amount of images. See the manual guide on memory usage - if you're doing something very inefficient you can quite often easily reduce the memory usage by 50-75%.

  • I don't see how changing when the suspend happens changes anything about what happens when it suspends. If you want to do something custom when the game suspends, use the system 'On suspended' trigger.

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