Defold 1.2.116 has been released

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Defold 1.2.116

This release adds support of spine skin color, ability to set the use of accelerometer events and various other fixes.

Engine

  • DEF-2578 - Added: Spine skin color support.
  • DEF-2821 - Added: Added support for binary strings in the scripting CheckTable/PushTable.
  • DEF-1396 - Added: Added input.use_accelerometer to game.project to control accelerometer events.
  • DEF-2908 - Changed: Removed x86-linux and x86-darwin from the bundle step.
  • DEF-1286 - Fixed: Discard the z-component when checking length of 2D raycast.
  • DEF-2936 - Fixed: Spine animated tint applied twice in some cases.
  • DEF-2938 - Fixed: Engine now handles .wav files with superfluous data.
  • DEF-2934 - Fixed: Crash when returning data in builtin functions (init, update etc).
  • DEF-2633 - Fixed: http.request() failed for some https connections.
  • DEF-1929 - Added: Ability to determine if the game is running on a debug build (sys.get_engine_info().is_debug)
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What does it mean?

For now Editor2 has no this option (is this option avaliable only by hand editing?)

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Regarding “binary strings” is that you can have strings that are not pure c-strings: s = "hello" .. string.char(0) .. "world". E.g. a byte array. In our code, we previously assumed it was a c string (a null terminated string), whereas Lua supports binary strings.

Regarding the input.use_accelerometer, I will look into it, and see why it doesn’t show up properly in the Editor 2.

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What’s this?

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Was Editor2 not updated properly? The date seems correct, but the version number is still 1.2.115?

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It’s updated, just not the right version number in about.

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Amendment to release notes (due to myself not labelling my commits properly):

  • DEF-1929 Ability to determine if the game is running on a debug build (sys.get_engine_info().is_debug)
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Hi! No, editor 2 has not been updated properly. We’ll look into this immediately!

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Since before we support slot color (tint) which can be constant or animated. What we added support for now is setting a constant tint to skin attachments as well. This could allow for more color variants to get reusability and variants of the same file.

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Alright, 1.2.116 should come in an update soon. “Use accelerometer” will be a checkbox, @Pkeod - I’m guessing you added the field manually? User added/unknown settings are presented as text fields since we don’t know it’s type.

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I didn’t add the field manually it was there when I updated.

Edit: I had the platformer example open at the time which did have it manually set and I didn’t notice before. :man_facepalming:

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Hi and thanks for the release!
I will immediately go through my “workarounds” for binary strings.
is_debug will definitely come in handy as well for us.

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@gregor.gullwi, @Pkeod Thanks for being so attentive!

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