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💝 Improvements

Introduce the "Wait X seconds" action

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  • This action allow to wait for a few seconds before continuing to run the next actions and sub-events.

  • It is perfect to create cut scenes, advanced logic or just run things progressively without relying on timers. In a lot of cases, it's simpler and faster to use this new action.

  • The action remembers the picked objects: it works like an usual event, but run the actions (and sub-events) a bit later in time. While the action wait, other events continue to run as usual.

  • Thanks to @arthuro555 for the ground work and follow up on this new feature.

  • Learn more on the wiki to see advanced examples:

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Improvements of editor screens

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  • Redesign of the variables editor
    • Each row should be easier to read in a glance
    • You can now collapse collection variables for a better readability
    • Reorder and move of variables is now available with drag n drop
    • You can now undo and redo changes
    • Paste one or more variables at any level of depth you want
    • Search in the names and values of each variables with a filter effect
  • Remove slowing aspects of points and collision masks editors
    • Make coordinates inputs more user friendly
      • Removal of unnecessary decimal places
      • Do not replace empty value with 0 to allow whole value erasing
    • Better understanding of which point is which
      • Add possibility to select a point in the list so that it is highlighted in the preview (same for hovered points)
      • Allow drag n drop for custom collision mask to reorder points
    • Open image preview at a zoom factor that is adapted to the sprite size so that one doesn't have to zoom at each opening.
  • Improve the effects list
    • Effects are applied in order and different orders may give different results, so ordering them is important. You can now do it with drag n drop.
    • Also, when renaming effects, a few checks are now done in order to prevent unexpected results.

UI/UX improvements

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  • Add gallery in the asset store to better understand available asset packs
  • Improve design of the alerts/messages and make margins consistent in the app
  • Add tutorials in app
    • Added dismissable tutorials in events sheet, variable editors and object variable tab, add object dialog, sprite animations tab, export game for web tab, add new extension dialog.
    • Added a tutorial button.
  • Make anchor behavior more intuitive
    • Anchor an edge of an object to set its distance from the window edges. Single anchor will not stretch the object anymore; you will need to set anchors to object's opposite edges for this effect.
    • Add a button to switch between legacy and new behavior.
  • Display all autocompletions in the expression editor when listing them
    • The list is not truncated anymore so you can scroll or use the arrow keys to browse all the completions (useful to see everything: objects, expressions, but also the available easing for tweens, etc...)

🙌 A big thank you to everyone in the community that gave a bit of their time to take part into some user research chats and explained their experience with GDevelop and the asset store: Doomsday, HelperMuzan, AstrowoCookie_Games, Breed, TheBeeDev, ArticMan, Hussinali121, dmendz, teo, jumpingj, Jurfix, THEspectre, Crimson Dan x (Kurimuzondan), VegeTato, Entropy.

Leaderboards

  • Add new settings to leaderboards
    • Add parameter to control number of entries to display
    • Add possibility to set a default leaderboard, displayed on Liluo game page by default
  • Add possibility to reject scores that are a better than a value you can tune

Other

  • Upgrade the underlying runtime running the desktop app, and exported desktop games, to Electron 18
    • This brings improved performance and compatibility for the desktop app with Windows, macOS and Linux.
    • In particular, tilemap performance should be greatly improved both in the scene editor, the preview and exported games on Linux.
    • This should also improve performance of both the editor and games on macOS when running on Apple Silicon (M1 CPUs).
    • Thanks to @nilaymaj for the ground work on this upgrade.
  • Allow to choose installation directory when installing GDevelop on Windows
    • Also allow to choose if GDevelop must be installed system-wide or just for the user.
  • Allow webp images to be selected for object resources, and webm for videos (Thanks @arthuro555!)
    • These formats are providing better compression than PNG or MP4, but they might not work on older devices - be sure to double check if the devices or browsers of your audience support them.

⚙️ Extensions, 🎨 assets and 🕹 examples

  • New extension: Multitouch joystick and buttons
    • This is a major improvement to implement Multitouch Joystick in your game.
    • It has support for "Simulated touch" actions to simplify mouse and gamepad controls.
    • It has a floating joystick option.
    • Virtual joystick and the Platformer example are now using this extension.
  • Multitouch and Ping pong examples updated to show the usage of the new touch conditions (introduced in the previous GDevelop release).
  • 3 full game templates were added:
  • Update of the new Platformer template based on users feedbacks
    • Changed camera limits to use boundary objects (users can simply move these to change the size of the level)
    • Added HelperObjects group and hide them at the beginning of scene (so users will see them in scene editor)
    • Cleaned up various part of the project,
    • Replaced touchscreen buttons with a (multi-touch) joystick,
    • Added support for gamepads,
    • Made the game responsive to any resolution.
  • [Gamepad 0.3.0] Add the new options "Any" directions for the condition Stick pushed in a direction
  • [Noise 2.1.0] Added helper function for 1D noise (using 2D noise with a static value for one dimension)
  • [Draw pathfinding 0.1.2] Automatic creation of shape painter object and enforce absolute position
  • Add the new pack Brawler Series by Chasersgaming (Packaged by @Entr0py404)
  • Add a new pack Darkvinter Thumbstick (packaged by @Entr0py404)
  • Add new asset pack Xbox 360 controller buttons by GDquest (Packaged by @Entr0py404)
  • Add news assets Xbox 360 buttons by Zaphgames (Packaged by @Entr0py404)
  • Add new assets for Virtual Joystick by hannemann (Packaged by @Entr0py404)
  • Add Achievement system example by @ikmalsaid
  • Add a new scene in Infinitely Scrolling Background example with another method to get an infinite background.

🐛 Bug fixes

Liluo.io

  • Fix not setting authors correctly when publishing to Liluo.io
    • Also fix project being correctly saved
    • And disabled the fields while publishing
  • Prevent users to type a game slug longer than the limit
  • Encode thumbnail URL before sending it to the GDevelop services
    • This prevents a bug where the thumbnail would not work when the filename has non-conventional characters

Other

  • Fix range of volume on fade sound/music action
    • ⚠️ This action was introduced with a buggy range (0 to 1 instead of 0 to 100). If you happen to use it, please update the range of volume used once the GDevelop new version is installed
  • Align image frame and full-size collision mask in collision mask editor
  • Fix parameters of extensions actions/conditions made in the editor not having a default proper name
    • This was creating a crash, because of infinite warnings, if clicking on a parameter with an empty name and then clicking on another parameter also having an empty name.
  • Fix web-app recent files wrongly containing URLs to examples
  • Fix history not working well on the Events Sheet
    • Fix changes not being detected for history when editing an event Inline
    • Fix losing focus when switching tabs

🛠 Internal changes (for developers)

  • Enable C++ tests by default in CMake
  • Speed up the editor development server startup time by 3x
  • Upgrade react scripts to have React fast refresh
  • Remove the dependency to SFML
    • This allows to run Core tests more easily.
  • Add support for asynchronous actions (including for objects).
    • Add exhaustive test cases for asynchronous actions.
  • Upgrade to Electron 18:
  • Specify supported languages for the Microsoft Store version (appx)
  • Update the preview to create the BrowserWindow from the electron main process
  • Add Posthog for following app usage analytics
    • Fix UUID not reset when a user was logging out
    • This should allow to create public dashboard showing various app usage (like popular extensions), with more accurate numbers than using Keen.io

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