Defold news & patch notes

Full release notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-12-2-has-been-released/82464

Full release notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-12-1-has-been-released/82327

Full release notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-12-0-has-been-released/82214

Defold 1.11.0 has been released. Full release notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-11-0-has-been-released/81515

Defold 1.10.3 has been released. Full release notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-10-3-has-been-released/80882

https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-7-has-been-released/79650

Full release notes on the Defold forum: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-has-been-released/78922

Full release notes here: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-1-has-been-released/77534

Full release notes on the forum: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-8-1-has-been-released/77064

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-8-1-has-been-released/77064/16

Overview

Defold 1.8.1 includes new engine features like error handling for file writes, options for disabling LiveUpdate auto-mounting, and support for Lua transpilers, new and improved camera component and API, as well as numerous bug fixes related to meshes, sprites, fonts, HTTP requests, and editor UI issues. We’d like to highlight the initial support for Lua transpilers in the build pipeline (both editor and bob). The first language that can be used to try the transpiler feature is Teal 37 — a typed dialect of Lua. You will need to add teal extension 13 to the dependencies to try it out. The support is currently limited to transpilation only and excludes automatic extern generation for Defold’s Lua APIs. This means it is more useful for writing type-safe standalone logic than interacting with Defold runtime, though teal allows writing necessary externs yourself. The first iteration of an improved camera component has been added in this version of Defold. The camera API is now available in all scripts (including render scripts and gui scripts) via the camera namespace, and contain new functionality to bind a camera to the renderer instead of passing explicit view and projection matrices to it.

BREAKING CHANGE: (#8528) More options for min filter in game.project → Graphics → Default Texture Min Filter BREAKING CHANGE: (#8548) Removed deprecated extensions from the code BREAKING CHANGE: (#8559) Removed system_font.font from builtins BREAKING CHANGE: (#8529) Turn mipmaps off in the default.texture_profiles file in builtins BREAKING CHANGE: (#8553) Removed old deprecated messages NEW: (#8424) Render target as a resource NEW: (#8322) Increased length of debug prints for urls to 256 per part and 512 in total NEW: (#8513) Add missed gui.BLEND_SCREEN constant into gui module NEW: (#8525) Add camera focus message’s wrappers. NEW: (#8562) Set custom vertex data API (Sprites) NEW: (#8577) Add support for enabling a render target resource in render.enable_texture NEW: (#8599) Flip image flag for image.load NEW: (#8521) Add world to local coordinate system conversion API NEW: (#8473) Add editor.delete_directory() NEW: (#8510) Use async engine build in the editor FIX: (#8371) Fix http request timeout usage in HTML5 build FIX: (#8477) Fix issue when profiler show wrong count of GUI.ActiveNodes FIX: (#8486) Fixed an issue where the game wouldn’t start if the iframe didn’t allow gamepad usage (HTML5). FIX: (#8484) Fix multi-buffered render buffers on non-opengl graphics adapters FIX: (#8496) Fixed an issue where attempting to use IndexedDB when it is prohibited prevents game loading in HTML5. FIX: (#8493) Fix for crash caused by ray casting followed by deletion of the object FIX: (#8305) add “Support texture handles in render.enable_texture” mention to API documentation FIX: (#8544) Send sound_done or sound_stopped messages only if the sound is played using msg.post() with the play_id parameter. FIX: (#8551) Fixed an issue where bob.jar did not delete some temporary folders after the bundling process was completed. FIX: (#8552) Support sampler names in render.enable_texture FIX: (#8582) Crash fixes for the GDC tool FIX: (#8567) Fixed rendering of untextured sprites in the editor FIX: (#8569) Added support for sprite to not have a texture assigned FIX: (#8579) Check that texture width and height is valid before creating texture FIX: (#8583) Use correct material tag for mesh components FIX: (#8591) Add retry_count and retry_time settings to the game.project file in the html5 section. FIX: (#8547) Fix issues with physics.set_shape() when Allow Dynamic Transformsis on FIX: (#8561) Fixed the way the HTML5 bundler splits and renames resource files FIX: (#8545) Add arm64-osx platform to manifests FIX: (#8522) Graph successor memory optimizations FIX: (#8531) Hide texture formats and texture compressions from *.textures_profiles that are currently not supported. FIX: (#8563) Properly validate sprite texture assignments FIX: (#8593) Paged atlas preview bugfix https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-7-0-has-been-released/76266

Full release notes here: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-6-2-has-been-released/75039

See full release notes here: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-6-1-has-been-released/74644

Defold 1.6.0 has been released! This version contains a ton of fixes as well as some new features. Read the release notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-6-0-has-been-released/74232

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-4-1-has-been-released/72246

ATTENTION: This release contains breaking changes! Please pay extra attention to the release notes and the four breaking changes, as one or more of them may affect your projects. This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-4-0-has-been-released/72062

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-3-6-has-been-released/71692

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-3-4-has-been-released/71206

The base version of Defold on Steam has been updated to 1.3.3. This was done as there was an SSL issue when auto updating that some users experienced. If you need an older version of Defold you can find older releases on the GitHub releases page. This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-3-3-has-been-released/71102

AndroidManifest.xml has changed. Make sure you copy these changes into your custom manifest if you use one! This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-3-2-has-been-released/70822

The biggest change this release is the improved support for the different timesteps between the game update loop and the physics update loop. The goal is to have the game using vsync, and use the delta time between the display refreshes as the dt for the game loop. This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-3-1-has-been-released/70673

This version has major changes to the Spine integration for Defold. Check the official forum thread for more information. This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-3-0-has-been-released/70493

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-2-192-has-been-released/70303

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-2-191-has-been-released/70089

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-2-190-has-been-released/69922

This new version can be downloaded by opening Defold and allowing the editor to self-update. All releases can be downloaded at: https://github.com/defold/defold/releases Official forum thread with complete update notes: https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-2-189-has-been-released/69707

Defold 1.2.189

Engine Issue-3692 - Added: Added support for uniform arrays Issue-5874 - Fixed: Bob: Avoid building of textures which are not used in components Issue-6092 - Fixed: Make string output consistent in userdata objects Issue-6093 - Fixed: Do not throw Unable to play animation error, when changing texture for sprite Issue-6106 - Fixed: Fixed fallback when live update fails to load .dmanifest Issue-6116 - Fixed: Better responding to Audio Session Interruptions on iOS Issue-6117 - Fixed: Bob: Don’t calculate a cache key if the resource cache is disabled Issue-6119 - Fixed: Bob: Ignore the build cache for basic copy tasks Issue-6120 - Fixed: Bob: Improved the require parser to better handle trailing commands Issue-6132 - Fixed: Add resource.get_text_metrics() Issue-6136 - Fixed: Updated some of the API docs Issue-6147 - Fixed: Always release the mesh buffer resource Issue-6099 - Fixed: NE: Added dmGameObject::PostDDF, dmMessage::PostDDF helper functions Issue-6102 - Fixed: NE: Added dmScript::IsQuat and dmScript::IsMatrix4 Issue-6121 - Fixed: NE: Add dmScript::UrlToString to dmsdk for easier error reporting Fixes for source code support when building locally Issue-6091 - Fixed: Source: Target only x86_64-darwin until official M1 support Issue-6095 1 - Fixed: Source: Converted easy_install packages to pip packages

The Defold Foundation and Yandex.Games is hereby inviting Defold developers across the world to join a month long game jam. Developers will be challenged to create a themed web game showing their creative and developer skills as well as a good integration with the Yandex.Games SDK. The proud winner and runner-ups will receive marketing and advertisement for their submitted game, hardware, swag and bragging rights! November 1st 2021 to December 1st 2021 Learn more here: https://defold.com/yandex-game-jam-2021/ Official forum post: https://forum.defold.com/t/join-the-defold-and-yandex-games-jam-2021/69493