defDragon

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Defold DragonBones extension. Alpha release.

The extension now works on Windows, HTML5, Linux. Linux tested indirectly on Windows by bundling.

The latest release is 0.6

Defold example project: defDragon Example

Live example: HTML5 Example

Todo

  • Reduce draw calls :check_box_with_check:
  • Culling :check_box_with_check:
  • Projection :check_box_with_check:

DragonBonesPro 09_04_2026

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Simple example showing basic usage. The game.project dependency should be updated to point to latest tag release.

defDragon example 2.zip (89.4 KB)

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Cool! A lot of people wanted DragonBones to work! Thank you for sharing!

Sadly, I tried to run it, and there is a type error in line 459 of script_dragonbones.cpp:

/dragonbones/src/script_dragonbones.cpp
	Line 459: format specifies type 'int' but the argument has type 'size_type' (aka 'unsigned long') [-Werror,-Wformat]
  458 |                 dmLogInfo("onDrawFrame: Skipping slot '%s' due to empty buffers or texture ID 0 (vertices: %d, indices: %d)",
      |                                                                                                            ~~
      |                                                                                                            %zu
  459 |                     slot->getName().c_str(), openglSlot->vertices.size(), openglSlot->indices.size());
      |                                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

and:

/dragonbones/src/script_dragonbones.cpp
	Line 459: format specifies type 'int' but the argument has type 'size_type' (aka 'unsigned long') [-Werror,-Wformat]
  458 |                 dmLogInfo("onDrawFrame: Skipping slot '%s' due to empty buffers or texture ID 0 (vertices: %d, indices: %d)",
      |                                                                                                                         ~~
      |                                                                                                                         %zu
  459 |                     slot->getName().c_str(), openglSlot->vertices.size(), openglSlot->indices.size());
      |                                                                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Exported data not properly loaded is my guess. Please try my updated example. I am on Windows 10. Maybe it’s the platform?

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Ah, maybe. Same with ver 2. I’m on Ubuntu, but I’ll try on Windows.

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Definitely it’s platform, there are errors with HTML5. HTML5 is fixed. The latest release is 0.0.4

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As far as it goes, I consider this project done.

Defold Wishlist

  • go.property(“file1”, resource.file()) - A way of picking arbitrary files like JSON.
  • mesh indices. It will reduce the number of resources used.
  • Tutorial on creating simple custom component. In my opinion, spine and rive extensions are too complex to be understood by reading the source.

Lessons

  • Using meshes, buffer
  • Interfacing with external libraries

Minor bug? I don’t know

 --mtx_test is vertex constant user matrix4
 go.set("#mesh", hash("mtx_test"), vmath.matrix4())
 -- error below: Invalid index 2 for property 'mtx_test'
 print(go.get("#mesh", hash("mtx_test")))
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Vote up: Add option for indexed vertices for buffers to be used with the mesh component. · Issue #5477 · defold/defold · GitHub

For the files references as property, it’s an interesting idea. I didn’t find any similar issue though, so it’s worth creating it!

There is some discussion that might be relevant somehow here:

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Added to the Asset Portal:

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Never say never. Updated to version 0.5. Go transform now apply to armature. No need to manually update with dragonbones.move and co.

The updated sample.

The early sample :joy:

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Added feature request.

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