Hello, sorry to bother you. I am following the video tutorial ‘IT Make A Complete Incremental Game With Defold Tutorial’ by Asatte Games (thank you for that). I searched the msg section of the API documentation ( API reference (Message) | Defold ) but there isn’t a comprehensive list of built-in messages. I would like to ask if I am missing something or if this documentation is simply not there. If it’s not present, is an update to the documentation planned in this regard? Thank you in advance for your reply and for the time you spent reading, considering, and responding to this.
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Please excuse any grammatical or structural errors, as English is not my first language.
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The built-in messages are in the reference, but not centralized in the msg page, but in each category that is responsible for the messages. So
and so on.
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Thank you @Halfstar for the detailed and helpful response.
If I understand correctly, when it comes to game objects, Defold uses ECS (Entity Component System). You attach components to a game object to determine what it can do, and scripts then describe the behavior of that object based on those properties (components). Looking at it from this perspective, the way the documentation is structured makes total sense.
If I expand this logic to the entire engine, sys, render, etc., simply become the components that allow our scripts to control and interact with the virtual world. Looking at it this way, everything becomes truly clear and intuitive.
If my reasoning is correct, I apologize—I probably could have figured this out on my own without troubling anyone.