# Defold 1.9.5 BETA **URL:** \ **Category:** Release notes\ **Created:** [November 4, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759 "2024-11-04T14:09:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![britzl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/britzl/32/23_2.png) [@britzl](https://forum.defold.com/u/britzl)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/1 "2024-11-04T14:09:49Z")
# Defold 1.9.5 Beta ## Disclaimer This is a BETA release, and it might have issues that could potentially be disruptive for you and your teams workflow. Use with caution. Use of source control for your projects is strongly recommended. ## Access to the beta Download the editor or bob.jar from GitHub: [Release v1.9.5 - beta · defold/defold · GitHub](https://github.com/defold/defold/releases/tag/1.9.5-beta) ## Summary - **NEW** : ([#9636](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9636)) Remove unused world constant from tile\_map in builtins (by FlexYourBrain) - **NEW** : ([#9644](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9644)) Automatically calculate the maximum number of game objects required for a runtime collection (by AGulev) - **NEW** : ([#9649](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9649)) Add the `engine-setup` script tag to the HTML5 template (by aglitchman) - **NEW** : ([#9659](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9659)) Misc platform fixes for extensions (by Jhonnyg) - **NEW** : ([#9562](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9562)) Add a read-only property for the Current Node in the GUI. (by AGulev) - **NEW** : ([#9475](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9475)) Http cache improvements (by Jhonnyg) - **NEW** : ([#9610](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9610)) Add support for pivot points for atlases (by JCash) - **FIX** : ([#9671](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9671)) Added new property in `game.project` to specify minimum log level `project.minimum_log_level` (by AGulev) - **FIX** : ([#9566](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9566)) Add alpha blending before rendering profiler (by Jhonnyg) - **FIX** : ([#9499](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9499)) Added Switch Pro Controller for Windows (by wistpotion) - **FIX** : ([#9550](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9550)) Fix multi-materials in one skinning model (by jixingcn) - **FIX** : ([#9563](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9563)) Only split combined samplers when needed (by Jhonnyg) - **FIX** : ([#9643](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9643)) Fix crash when MaxDynamicTextures == 0. (by ekharkunov) - **FIX** : ([#9559](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9559)) Fixed issue where the horizontal scroll bar was covering the last line in the console or the code editor (by AGulev) - **FIX** : ([#9637](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9637)) Proper engine shutdown (by AGulev) ## Engine **NEW** : ([#9636](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9636)) **‘Remove unused world constant from tile\_map in builtins’** by FlexYourBrain The unused `world` constant has been removed from the `tile_map` material from builtins. **NEW** : ([#9644](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9644)) **‘Automatically calculate the maximum number of game objects required for a runtime collection’** by AGulev Bob calculates how many game objects are used by each collection. If the collection has no `factory` or `collectionfactory` component, this value is used to allocate the exact number of GameObjects for the world (collection proxy). Otherwise, `collection.max_instances` is used. This helps save memory, especially in cases where the game has a world that requires a large `max_instances` value for the main game scene, but smaller and static extra scenes (such as popups, menus, etc.). **NEW** : ([#9649](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9649)) **‘Add the `engine-setup` script tag to the HTML5 template’** by aglitchman This change brings back the `engine-setup` section to the HTML5 template. Developers can use it and native extensions can inject code here to add game startup parameters via the `CUSTOM_PARAMETERS` object, setup loading progress listeners, override the `dmloader.js` functions. **NEW** : ([#9659](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9659)) **‘Misc platform fixes for extensions’** by Jhonnyg A new DMSDK function has been added that can get the OpenGL id from a rendertarget: `OpenGLGetRenderTargetId`. Also, Vulkan support for iOS is working correctly again after recent GLFW changes. **FIX** : ([#9671](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9671)) **‘Added new property in `game.project` to specify minimum log level `project.minimum_log_level`’** by AGulev Using the new `game.project` property `project.minimum_log_level`, it is possible to specify the minimum log level for the logging system. Only logs at the minimum level or higher will be shown. **FIX** : ([#9566](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9566)) **‘Add alpha blending before rendering profiler’** by Jhonnyg Forced the in-game profiler to always be rendered with alpha blending. **FIX** : ([#9499](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9499)) **‘Added Switch Pro Controller for Windows’** by wistpotion Added Switch Pro Controller for Windows. **FIX** : ([#9550](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9550)) **‘Fix multi-materials in one skinning model’** by jixingcn Fixed an issue where custom vertex attributes are applied only from the first material in a situation where the same material is used across multiple material slots in a model file, but where each sub-material has overridden attributes. In the .model file, the order of materials must be the same as in the original model file(.glb). (Notice: the defold editor will reorder all materials by name when you edit and save the model.) **FIX** : ([#9563](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9563)) **‘Only split combined samplers when needed’** by Jhonnyg Partial fix for #9533, the issue will still persist when building with WebGPU. **FIX** : ([#9643](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9643)) **‘Fix crash when MaxDynamicTextures == 0.’** by ekharkunov Setting dynamic textures to zero in GUIs no longer crashes the engine when running. ## Editor **NEW** : ([#9562](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9562)) **‘Add a read-only property for the Current Node in the GUI.’** by AGulev Added a new read-only property `Current Nodes` for `GUI` to display the number of nodes currently being used in the GUI. **NEW** : ([#9475](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9475)) **‘Http cache improvements’** by Jhonnyg Several improvements to the HTTP support in the engine has been made: - Restarting a project from the editor should be significantly faster for large projects - HTTP requests via the `http.request` function for large files should also be significantly faster - HEAD requests in the engine should be working correctly now - you can use a HEAD request to get the size of a remote file **NEW** : ([#9610](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9610)) **‘Add support for pivot points for atlases’** by JCash The images in an atlas now have support for a setting pivot point. The pivot is defined in units, where (0,0) is top left corner of the image, and (1,1) is bottom right of the image. The pivot is allowed to be outside of the [0, 1] range. Default is (0.5, 0.5), which is the middle of the image. **FIX** : ([#9559](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9559)) **‘Fixed issue where the horizontal scroll bar was covering the last line in the console or the code editor’** by AGulev Fixed an issue where the horizontal scrollbar made it impossible to interact with the last line in the console or the code editor. **FIX** : ([#9637](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9637)) **‘Proper engine shutdown’** by AGulev Engine side fix for [Setting the game object max count too high causes a crash · Issue #9606 · defold/defold · GitHub](https://github.com/defold/defold/issues/9606) The engine shouldn’t crash on De-init if error happened during initialization ---
**Author:** ![britzl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/britzl/32/23_2.png) [@britzl](https://forum.defold.com/u/britzl)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/2 "2024-11-04T19:24:51Z")
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**Author:** ![Alex\_8BitSkull](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/alex_8bitskull/32/5424_2.png) [@Alex\_8BitSkull](https://forum.defold.com/u/Alex_8BitSkull)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/3 "2024-11-04T22:21:35Z")
Great release! Love seeing the contributors listed. I seem to have an issue in that prints (DEBUG:SCRIPT: specifically) aren’t displaying in the console anymore in 1.9.5. ---
**Author:** ![ThinkNathan](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/thinknathan/32/32599_2.png) [@ThinkNathan](https://forum.defold.com/u/ThinkNathan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/4 "2024-11-04T23:50:25Z")
The [default minimum log level appears to be 2](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9671/files). Debug message levels are 0 and 1, so they are hidden by default. Have you tried setting `minimum_log_level` to 0 or 1? Apologies if you’ve already tried and I missed it. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_8BitSkull](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/alex_8bitskull/32/5424_2.png) [@Alex\_8BitSkull](https://forum.defold.com/u/Alex_8BitSkull)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/5 "2024-11-05T09:21:55Z")
That was precisely the issue, thank you! I wonder if this default is appropriate? It adds a relatively obscure step to “Hello world!”, and I foresee us having to coach newbies on this frequently. ---
**Author:** ![AGulev](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/agulev/32/4541_2.png) [@AGulev](https://forum.defold.com/u/AGulev)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/6 "2024-11-05T09:56:20Z")
Thanks, I’ll take a look ---
**Author:** ![Dragosha](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/dragosha/32/5103_2.png) [@Dragosha](https://forum.defold.com/u/Dragosha)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/7 "2024-11-05T10:10:20Z")
> [@britzl](#): > > Add support for pivot points for atlases (by JCash) Super! And it works. The only issue I found was a small bug in displaying the bounding box frame in the editor when the pivot of the sprite is shifted. I.e. frames are still shown as if the pivot remained in the centre of the sprite. Clicking on sprites and selecting objects works correctly. ![2024-11-05_14-49-44](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/0/4/040d00f06c443a3f495b8011be395ed51928379c.jpeg) And also a bit frustrating to set the pivot in case the sprite in the atlas was rotated when packing. I think visual marker will solve this situation. ![2024-11-05_15-01-59](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/5/0/50e4e72cc9ebf609efd53c8d131e2a7556393c9b.jpeg) How it works : > [@Teaser Fridays and Roadmap talks](https://forum.defold.com/t/teaser-fridays-and-roadmap-talks/2803/238): > > Yay! Tried new beta 1.9.5 The video shows how the same scene works with the new sprite pivot points. Just set the Y to 1, meaning the pivot point is at the bottom of the sprite. And now sorting the character with pivot in feet and sprites works the same way. ---
**Author:** ![AGulev](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/agulev/32/4541_2.png) [@AGulev](https://forum.defold.com/u/AGulev)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/8 "2024-11-05T17:51:58Z")
Could you please open issues for these? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![AGulev](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/agulev/32/4541_2.png) [@AGulev](https://forum.defold.com/u/AGulev)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/9 "2024-11-05T18:03:32Z")
> [@Alex\_8BitSkull](#): > > That was precisely the issue, thank you! > > I wonder if this default is appropriate? It adds a relatively obscure step to “Hello world!”, and I foresee us having to coach newbies on this frequently. Default value should be `USER DEBUG = 1`, I’ll fix it in beta tomorrow ---
**Author:** ![Pawel](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/pawel/32/24623_2.png) [@Pawel](https://forum.defold.com/u/Pawel)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/10 "2024-11-05T20:24:13Z")
> [@britzl](#): > > **FIX** : ([#9559](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9559)) **‘Fixed issue where the horizontal scroll bar was covering the last line in the console or the code editor’** by AGulev Thank you @AGulev for this fix! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gianmichele](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/gianmichele/32/24028_2.png) [@gianmichele](https://forum.defold.com/u/gianmichele)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/11 "2024-11-07T07:26:48Z")
Testing the latest beta with the rive extension. Just downloaded the project from github and tried to build. I’m getting this error: ![Screenshot 2024-11-07 at 07.25.36](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/3/1/31e6c66eeae4d3730c9721e4bda75cb6d5d79563.png) ---
**Author:** ![britzl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/britzl/32/23_2.png) [@britzl](https://forum.defold.com/u/britzl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/12 "2024-11-07T08:22:00Z")
Thanks. I updated the description. Please try again. ---
**Author:** ![gianmichele](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/gianmichele/32/24028_2.png) [@gianmichele](https://forum.defold.com/u/gianmichele)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2024, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/13 "2024-11-07T22:05:38Z")
All working, and it’s awesome! ---
**Author:** ![AGulev](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/agulev/32/4541_2.png) [@AGulev](https://forum.defold.com/u/AGulev)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/14 "2024-11-08T15:49:46Z")
> [@Dragosha](#): > > The only issue I found was a small bug in displaying the bounding box frame in the editor when the pivot of the sprite is shifted. I.e. frames are still shown as if the pivot remained in the centre of the sprite. Clicking on sprites and selecting objects works correctly. This issue fixed (with a couple more related issues) and merged into beta. It will be available in ~1h ---
**Author:** ![AGulev](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/agulev/32/4541_2.png) [@AGulev](https://forum.defold.com/u/AGulev)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/15 "2024-11-15T12:13:58Z")
Just a reminder that this version still in beta, please test your projects with it to make sure everything works fine. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![d954mas](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/d954mas/32/5401_2.png) [@d954mas](https://forum.defold.com/u/d954mas)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2024, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/16 "2024-11-16T05:40:15Z")
Something wrong with pivots and resource.set\_atlas(self.atlas\_empty, atlas) In my game i use liveupdate for skins.atlas. I have empty atlas in main collectuibn then i replaced it with liveupdate version. 1.9.4 ![2024-11-16_10-24-46](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/b/1/b16a85b5b2f1455507a2cc167841e0315342e3b5.jpeg) 1.9.5 (8625c758fac8ce21fdadedaf394baf7651cf2bb2) ![2024-11-16_10-23-32](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/2/6/261ecf08df70aa00004884a2dd4c59bd14c190c5.jpeg) ```lua local atlas = resource.get_atlas(self.atlas) for idx, geometry in ipairs(atlas.geometries) do local anim = atlas.animations[idx] local data = { id = anim.id, } COMMON.skins_atlas.animations[anim.id] = data COMMON.skins_atlas.animations[hash(anim.id)] = data --hotfix for rotated images if geometry.uvs[1] ~= geometry.uvs[3] then data.need_rotate = true local tc = geometry.vertices --add rotation to geometry local new_vertices = { tc[3], tc[4], tc[5], tc[6], tc[7], tc[8], tc[1], tc[2], } geometry.vertices = new_vertices--]] --now rotate uv and vertices to by 90 end end resource.set_atlas(self.atlas_empty, atlas) ``` Pivot is on left top corner not in center by default. 1)i don’t set width and height for geometry. get\_atlas not give me that value:( [https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/6f27dcd273f65e2db7025fcae024ce1e4da7e6f3/engine/gamesys/src/gamesys/scripts/script\_resource.cpp#L1920C11-L1936C14](https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/6f27dcd273f65e2db7025fcae024ce1e4da7e6f3/engine/gamesys/src/gamesys/scripts/script_resource.cpp#L1920C11-L1936C14) You calculate pivot but width and height is 0 when i add width and height it fixed ```lua local w,h = 0,0 for vi =1,#geometry.vertices, 2 do w = math.max(w, geometry.vertices[vi]); h = math.max(h, geometry.vertices[vi+1]); end geometry.width = w geometry.height = h ``` ![2024-11-16_10-55-07](https://forum-defold-uploads.b-cdn.net/original/3X/b/6/b6bc231ff587db3598510f5c7be3965e03e053f7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![d954mas](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/d954mas/32/5401_2.png) [@d954mas](https://forum.defold.com/u/d954mas)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2024, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/17 "2024-11-16T06:01:21Z")
1. I think you need to add pivot\_x, pivot\_y, width, height in geometry in resource.get\_atlas. ```lua DEBUG:SCRIPT: { --[[00000280536F3B10]] uvs = { --[[0000028054068220]] 1 = 785, 2 = 2, 3 = 913, 4 = 2, 5 = 913, 6 = 99, 7 = 785, 8 = 99 }, vertices = { --[[00000280536F3B60]] 1 = 0, 2 = 128, 3 = 0, 4 = 0, 5 = 97, 6 = 0, 7 = 97, 8 = 128 }, indices = { --[[00000280540682C0]] 1 = 0, 2 = 1, 3 = 2, 4 = 0, 5 = 2, 6 = 3 } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![Mathias\_Westerdahl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/mathias_westerdahl/32/228_2.png) [@Mathias\_Westerdahl](https://forum.defold.com/u/Mathias_Westerdahl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-9-5-beta/78759/18 "2024-11-17T11:25:37Z")
I have a PR up for review now: [Changed resource.create\_atlas() pivot to unit space (from texels), to simplfy calculations by JCash · Pull Request #9775 · defold/defold · GitHub](https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/9775) The big difference here is that you’ll now specify the pivot in image unit space (0,0), (1,1), as opposed to image texel space. THis way there is no need to have the width/height available. I also added the pivot + size to the output from get\_atlas().