How can I work offline, as defold new project has to be created online

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#1

How can I work offline, as defold new project has to be created online.

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#2

Unfortunately you can’t work offline open the project offline, but it is on the road map.

Maybe someone have a workaround for it, but I have not heard of any.

#3

As soon as you have the project open, you can work offline.

#4

I’ve just started my laptop offline and have been immediately prompted with ‘sign into defold’ the project is still on the disk yet I can’t open it since I’m apparently my signed in. any ideas?

#5

You need to be online to open project.

#6

sorry, misinterpreted your previous post. is there any plans to make offline supported in editor 2.0?

#7

Yes, absolutely! That and support for local projects or any git hosting.

#8

so there is no workaroud to open a project without having access to the internet

#9

Not with the old editor. The new editor allows you to open a project from any location without the need for any network connection.

#10

I signed up for the alpha testing. The new editor is awesome and it does let me open existing projects from hard drive.

Only missing feature in it atm is ability to create offline projects

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#11

Yes, that would be nice to be able to do from within the editor, but in all honesty all you need is a game.project file and you could create that manually. Or, zip an empty project and unpack and modify as needed when you need to create a new project. I have an (almost) empty project here for instance: https://github.com/britzl/defold-empty

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#12

The new editor works off any folder that contains a git clone of a project. You can create a project any way you like, on- or off-line.

#13

@britzl thank you! I will use it
@sicher the editor can open local projects, but it can not create them. As a result the user can not even start the editor without having downloaded an example project or an empty project

The first time user will be stuck on this window:

minus the recent project i have in my case

Furthermore, even if you have downloaded a new empty project and open it, Defold has no way of saving it as a new project and giving it a new name. It can only overwrite the files in the empty project template the user opened.

I made myself useful and posted about this at the github tracker. Hope it helps

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#14

No, you can absolutely create a project offline. Here’s an example:

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Adding a function of using other code editors and offline mode
#15

Note that what I created here is so barebones it won’t even build. Adding and hooking up a main collection (can be empty) and input bindings (can also be empty) will make it build. You probably want to set this up as a Git project with a remote as well.

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#16

The option to be able to create a new empty project from within the editor should be added at some point. I just wanted to point out that it is perfectly possible to work around that now. A Defold project is nothing but a folder with a “game.project” file inside. If you, for instance, need to save with another name, just copy the folder.

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#17

Thank you @sicher this is a great workaround! :slight_smile:

I love the new editor btw! It is surprisingly stable for an alpha

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#18

Whilst Sicher has proven beyond doubt that you can create a new project without going online, it would probably also be beneficial to have a “new project” button, even if it’s just a link that takes you to the dashboard’s own “new project” button.

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#19

Yes, some such functionality should definitely be there.

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#20

It shouldn’t require internet connection to create a new empty project either.

Perhaps a prompt could ask if you want to create it online or offline?

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