4ian/GDevelop v5.6.255

5.6.255

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⚠️ This is an experimental version for testing only. Please report any issue on Discord or on the forum.
Make backup of your games before using this version.

⚙️ Support for "Else" events

You can now add Else in the events sheet, after a traditional event:

The Else is a "logical statement": the event will run its conditions and execute its actions only if the previous event conditions are not met. Objects are picked like in a traditional event (without considering what happened in the previous event).

While "Else" are rarely used in GDevelop compared to a traditional programming language, it can be useful when building logic where you're doing checks on a variable and changing it, or any logic where you want to be sure that only one event execute and skip others if one was executed.

💝 Improvements

• Upgrade the desktop app as well as exported games to run with Electron v32 (thanks @arthuro555!)
  • This should provides various performance improvements and better rendering/GPU support.
• Add support for skin management in Spine objects (thanks @ViktorVovk!)
• Allow opening multiple GDevelop windows on Desktop:
  • This is useful to open multiple projects at the same time for instance.
  • This was previously causing issues where GDevelop was stuck trying to log in.
• Optimize simple tile maps with huge dimensions: they are now are faster to create and modify at runtime.
• Allow to override behavior properties on object instances: for now, this is limited to instances inside custom objects. This will be made available in the future for all instances in scenes if this works well.
• Display an audio preview in the resources editor and when editing actions.
• Add support for custom toolbar buttons on GDevelop desktop version (thanks @malec-palec!). This adds support for configurable toolbar buttons in the GDevelop desktop editor that execute npm scripts from a package.json file stored next to your project file. Buttons must be defined in a gdevelop-settings.yaml file, also stored in the project directory.
  For example, create a gdevelop-settings.yaml containing:

  toolbarButtons:
    - name: "Build"
      icon: "🔨"
      npmScript: "build"
    - name: "Test"
      icon: "🧪"
      npmScript: "test"
  

• Add 45-degree rotation with Alt key in the 3D editor

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix shortcut keys being stuck in the event sheets when switching tab
• Fix extension import which was wrongly tagging extensions as coming from the store
• Fix custom object children wrongly rotated in the 2D editor
• Fix advanced properties not uncollapsing when values are set
• Fix property value loss when renaming a property in the extension editor
• Fix crash (missing behavior shared data) when AI duplicates an object with behaviors in a new scene
• Fix crash when renaming with F2 to edit "Base layer".

⚙️ Extensions

• [Community] [Advanced 3D Features] Add 3D sound features (thanks @PANDAKO-GitHub!)
• Updated PlaygamaBridge to v1.28.0:
  • Fixed callbacks handling
  • Microsoft Store (beta): added platform integration, ads(Playgama Ads) support, in-app purchases support, ratings and reviews support
  • QA Tool:
    • Added engine and version to initialization payload
    • Added CLEAN_CACHE action and cleanCache method
    • Added audio state and pause handling
    • Added internal storage policy management
    • Added bridge configuration to initialization message
  • Xiaomi: added guest user support, platform internal storage is now available only for authorized players
  • CrazyGames: fixed getPurchases and getCatalog methods, fixed mobile Xsolla window handling (reject flow), fixed consume method
  • Added cloud leaderboards support (beta)
  • Analytics: Various internal improvements
• Updated Poki extension:
  • Fix bugs and add new actions (shareable url, URL parameter, opening external link, move the pill, analytics event)
• New extension: Advanced structure tools (thanks @BogdanLyopa!)

🕹 Examples

• Ensure the 3D editor is shown by default for all 3D examples.
• Update fire bullet extension across all examples.

🕹 Premium Game Templates

• New game: Pixel art farming template by @VegeTato
• New game: Arrow Beats by SnowyRawrGamer

🛠 Internal changes (for developers)

• Update Semaphore CI OS image from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04
• Update .travis.yml for Ubuntu 24.04 and dependencies
• Add support for setting a custom help URL for extension actions/conditions/expressions (thanks @malec-palec!)
• Refactor rendering of events (removed react-sortable-tree, replaced by react-window based equivalent)
• Changed action internal name "ChangePlan" to "SetZOrder"
• Upgraded Node.js version in CircleCI config.