Defold 1.2.157 has been released

Mathias_Westerdahl · June 25, 2019, 4:54pm

Defold 1.2.157

Improved Gamepad Support

In this release we’ve added gamepad support for HTML5, along with bindings for some common controllers in the default.gamepads file.

We have also added the possibility to get notified when a gamepad is connected or disconnected at runtime. There are two new gamepad triggers available to be bound in your input binding file, gamepad-connected and gamepad-disconnected, which can be listened for in the on_input callback.

On macOS and Windows we have added support for gamepad “hats” (also called dpad input in some circumstances). This fixes an old issue where the input from the dpad on a PS4 controller connected to macOS previously wasn’t able to be bound.

Android resources

We’ve improved a bit on how the Android resources are found from extensions.
Previously, the recommended way was to put it directly under the <extension>/res/android/res folder.
However, to more easily support multiple packages we check the folder for other folders, to see if they in turn are android assets.
You cannot mix the two ways in the same extension. See example

Bundle resources

The bundle resources are now (finally) a comma separated list of folders.

To make the reasoning clear about what resources are Android resources and which are bundle resources, any resources put in the <extension>/res/<platform>/res folder
are not considered for bundling.

Engine

DEF-3931 - Added: Added gamepad support for HTML5
DEF-3349 - Added: Added support for gamepad connect/disconnect at runtime
DEF-3708 - Added: Add support for gamepad “hat” inputs
DEF-3949 - Fixed: Memory leak in gui.animate callback
DEF-3813 - Fixed: Better error messages when bundling if icons are missing
#4186 - Added: game.project now has two more options android.minSdkVersion and android.targetSdkVersion
#4209 - Fixed: Crash in ares_addrinfo_callback
#4182 - Fixed: The Android dmengine.apk app is not orientation locked
#4172 - Fixed: The sys.load_resource()now returns tuple (resource, error_message)

Editor

#4103 - Added: Modernized look of a few more dialog boxes.
#4105 - Fixed: Text boxes now show the actual, scaled size of the node instead of the bounds of the text.
#4122 - Fixed: Malformed .script_api files in dependencies no longer cause build errors.
#4132 - Fixed: File not found build error after removing dependency from project.
#4164 - Fixed: Bad error message if a connection error occurs during project import.
#4184 - Fixed: Exception when creating a new file after opening a project whose folder casing changed.

sven · June 25, 2019, 2:19pm

Klear · June 25, 2019, 4:56pm

I kinda want to make a game that’s controlled by plugging and unplugging a gamepad now.

Dragosha · June 25, 2019, 5:01pm

Which version of Facebook NE works with this engine version?

johann.ulbrich · June 25, 2019, 5:22pm

Oops, accidentally clicked the wrong reply button…

Since the update to the new editor version 1.2.157 my bundle resources defined in the game.project are ignored. So my adaptive icon for Android (https://github.com/britzl/defold-adaptive_icons) is no longer included in the APK.
Can you tell me what the new path must look like for it to work again?

Pkeod · June 25, 2019, 9:14pm

Hype!

britzl · June 26, 2019, 2:44am

@johann.ulbrich I’m sorry to hear that this is no longer working for you. It really still should work the same way. What’s the path you have set for bundle resources?

Mathias_Westerdahl · June 26, 2019, 2:49am

The v1.3 version of the extension is the official one currently. We’re still working on the v2.0 version.

Mathias_Westerdahl · June 26, 2019, 3:08am

@johann.ulbrich Sorry to hear you got trioubles with bundling now.
Here’s a setup from a project we have, which I tested with and the apk seems to be as expected.

In the game.project file:

[project]
bundle_resources = /assets/bundle

In the project:

/assets
    /bundle
        /android
            /res
                /drawable-anydpi-v26
                    ...
                /mipmap-hdpi-v4
                    ...

And when printing the contents (unzip -l game.apk):


     8940  06-25-2019 08:45   AndroidManifest.xml
      552  06-25-2019 08:45   res/drawable-anydpi-v26/icon.xml
     8497  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-hdpi-v4/ic_launcher_bg.png
     1548  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-hdpi-v4/ic_launcher_fg.png
     4248  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-mdpi-v4/ic_launcher_bg.png
     1164  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-mdpi-v4/ic_launcher_fg.png
    13555  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-xhdpi-v4/ic_launcher_bg.png
     2775  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-xhdpi-v4/ic_launcher_fg.png
    26457  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-xxhdpi-v4/ic_launcher_bg.png
     5052  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-xxhdpi-v4/ic_launcher_fg.png
    41260  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-xxxhdpi-v4/ic_launcher_bg.png
     6848  06-25-2019 08:45   res/mipmap-xxxhdpi-v4/ic_launcher_fg.png
...

What does your setup look like?
What error do you get?
What does your apk listing look like?

johann.ulbrich · June 26, 2019, 7:21am

My configuration looks exactly like yours. When I build it in editor 1.2.156, the folders are included. If I build it in the new editor, these folders are missing.

I build the same project each time. The only difference is the Facebook extension. I have to remove it in 1.2.156, otherwise I get an error when building. Unbenannt

Mathias_Westerdahl · June 26, 2019, 7:49am

Regarding the facebook extension, make sure you use v1.3, since the v2.0 isn’t ready yet.

For the bundling issue, perhaps you can make a minimal repro project to share with us to make it easier to debug?

britzl · June 26, 2019, 8:05am

Strange. Can you trim this down to a minimal example to share?

johann.ulbrich · June 26, 2019, 8:29am

I can reproduce the behavior with your Adaptive Icon demo project: https://github.com/britzl/defold-adaptive_icons

AGulev · June 26, 2019, 10:02am

Sounds related to Issue-4215 (#4215) (the difference between Windows and MacOS bundling pipeline in 1.2.157)

AlexeyFeskov · June 26, 2019, 12:20pm

Faced with same problem when bundle for HTML5 platform on 1.2.157 Win10 Editor
Looks like replacing “/folder” with “folder” (without leading slash) can solve it.

sven · June 26, 2019, 2:08pm

Just a quick update, I’m looking into the issues with bundle resources on Android.

If it’s a blocker for you, please use previously released editor (1.2.156) while we work on a fix:

sergey.lerg · June 26, 2019, 2:23pm

Any plans on adding runtime detection of gamepads and let users to map them?

sven · June 26, 2019, 2:27pm

Yes, ideas, but nothing designed or concrete planned currently. Might give it a shot on an exploration day.

Pawel · June 28, 2019, 2:20pm

Was in this version the searching in game.project introduced too? I think it appeared after the update recently it’s a great feature! I won’t need to switch to atom or slide through the whole list again! thanks!

sven · July 3, 2019, 9:35am

An update regarding the issue with bundling Android from Windows (#4215):

We have a fix ready and will probably release a new stable in a few days that includes this fix and a few more bug fixes.