Idea for symbol-like Clips

[InternetAstronaut]

[InternetAstronaut]

The idea is to separate clips into different types, these are the ones I thought of:

• Classic Clip (The same clip as always)
• Movie Clip (Plays an image sequence)
• Button (Same as current buttons)
• Factory Clip (a clip made for creating templates used in game code)

The 'Class' option would allow for factory clips to have their own classes, and the 'Is Scripted?' option would allow for optimization by disabling the scripts.

[hobbsythe6th]

I think the factory clip needs an issue of its own, personally. I'm not too sure what it means, so if you could clarify what it is it would be great!
Also, I really love the remake art of the editor you've made, it's SO good and is a brilliant visual aid to all the text on the PR screen.

[BaronAWC]

I don't really like the idea of splitting a clip into too many subclasses. It already takes a while to explain the differences between Flash symbols, I think I prefer having just a single clip that can do anything. (The button gets a slight pass since it's really obvious as to what it means, but it's still redundant)

I could get behind a setting for "presets", which just sets the ideal properties of the clip upon creation. So an animation clip would sync to the timeline and have no scripts by default, etc.

[InternetAstronaut]

I think that making the clip super powerful and bloated might make a nightmare to maintain. We don’t even have a linter in the engine codebase!