Editor Select Object: Smart alignment

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Summary

Just like Photoshop smart alignment.When dragging an object in the editor, it can be automatically snapped to the boundary of another object.

1. Object Image box boundary
2. Snap to the space between 2 objects
3. Snap to the viewport (bound & Center)
4. Snap to the layout (bound & Center)

Note: Even the 'Snap to Grid' option is not checked, Smart alignment can still work independently.

Possible workarounds or alternatives

Use Snap to Grid. But not all objects are positioned exactly within the grid. It is also very difficult to align objects with the correct size and offset of the grid.

Proposed solution

Using Affinity Designer

https://github.com/Scirra/Construct-feature-requests/assets/45864744/82a5941a-8ba7-4446-9d4d-93aa00039aac

Why is this idea important?

This may be difficult, but it definitely makes sense, and helps make Construct the climber to the best 2D engine ever created.

Additional remarks

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[KhaledFelfal]

Absolutely useful, maybe take a look at Inkscape's alignment feature as well.

[v2game]

This increases efficiency

[Wellurg1024]

agree, think of how painful i align my 32x32 sprite😂

[johnnyslayer]

This suggestion is totally carzy good