Defold 1.2.135 release postponed - And a look forward

[AGulev]

Have a nice holiday!

@britzl

What are the features you’d like to see the most?

As I talked I think the strengths should be stronger, and my top looks like:

1. Polygonal sprites - possibility for better packing of atlases and benefints from faster pixels fill rate. (DEF-3055)
   Something like:
   https://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker/tutorials/cocos2d-x-performance-optimization

2. Trim alpha for sprites in atlases - smaler atlases, better packing. (DEF-2858)
   If p.1 looks like harder and bigger issue, this point can be first step.

3. Multi resolution assets (DEF-2058 ?) The need for "smart" resolution-aware atlases

@britzl

We also have plans to extract some non-critical parts of the engine core into extensions which will give us all a lot of flexibility and open up a whole lot of opportunities for the community.

4. + (Can you make Defold Extensions open source?)

6 .

DEF-2918 Resource component properties - Reference materials, models, textures, fonts and other resources as script properties and use go.get/set to change these at run-time.

As I understand it’s makes possible

@sicher

Here’s a quick test with regular sprites but with an additional normal map texture and a custom material and shader to do the light calculations. This is way easier with the new upcoming features.

https://forum.defold.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/ba45ca5f45dcf00fd7a1cd3b16e9b5d92c627dd3.mov