Teaser Fridays and Roadmap talks

[gianmichele]

Nice to see improvement in the camera area.
Is the camera api going to be expanded with coordinate conversion as well?

[schlista]

Is there a request to increase the GUI node pool from 512? I’m working on a game that I keep hitting this limit. Just doubling it would help a lot. With the bigger screen sizes out now, 512 is just a bit too small. Specifically, for my MetroidVania mapping component. Possibly make it a property we can adjust. That way there we take on the risk and we can design a game to a higher end platform.

[Halfstar]

Can’t you already change the max number of nodes in the root of the outline of a GUI to higher than 512? Or are you referencing something else?

[Halfstar]

Since 2021 the maximum has been increased to 8192:
https://github.com/defold/defold/pull/5713

[britzl]

@gianmichele

Is the camera api going to be expanded with coordinate conversion as well?

Yes. And object picking.

[schlista]

For me changing max nodes doesn’t change anything. I keep hitting a limit which is 512 based on the debug output.

[Halfstar]

The setting isn’t in game.project, but a property in the individual GUI files:

[schlista]

Thank you! Testing it now.

I came here to post this:
ERROR:GUI: Could not create the node since the buffer is full (512).

[AGulev]

Teasers time!

Moved the Templates, Samples, and Tutorials sections from a submenu to the root level to improve discoverability and make them easier to access.

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Fixes for Orthographic camera in the editor

[BrigitteC]

@AGulev

Fixes for Orthographic camera in the editor

Oh - that is great. Thank you very much.

[totebo]

This is brilliant and will save a lot of time when setting up the camera component.

[Mathias_Westerdahl]

The text layout update is close now.

Here’s a preview of an new example:

• dynamically loading localization info
  • text + .ttf font
• adding the .ttf to the label’s .fontc
• Showing text in LTR and RTL

Yes, there are more quality of life things we’d like to do, but we are at least at a point where we can give a first preview to our users. I’d say it’s one or two versions away.

[gianmichele]

This is great! Looking forward to playing with it

[AGulev]

New camera API is coming in version 1.11.3:

• camera.world_to_screen(world_pos, [camera])
• camera.screen_xy_to_world(x, y, [camera])
• camera.screen_to_world(pos, [camera])

-- Place objects at the touch point.
function on_input(self, action_id, action)
    if action_id == hash("touch") then
        if action.pressed then
            local world_position = camera.screen_xy_to_world(action.screen_x, action.screen_y)
            go.set_position(world_position, "/go1")
        end
    end
end

-- Place objects at the touch point with a random Z position, keeping them within the visible view zone.
function on_input(self, action_id, action)
    if action_id == hash("touch") then
        if action.pressed then
            local percpective_camera = msg.url("#perspective_camera")
            local random_z = math.random(camera.get_near_z(percpective_camera) + 0.01, camera.get_far_z(percpective_camera) - 0.01)
            local world_position = camera.screen_to_world(vmath.vector3(action.screen_x, action.screen_y, random_z), percpective_camera)
            go.set_position(world_position, "/go1")
        end
    end
end

-- Convert go position into screen position
go.update_world_transform("/go1")
local world_pos = go.get_world_position("/go1")
local screen_pos = camera.world_to_screen(world_pos)

[selimanac]

@AGulev

camera.screen_xy_to_world(x, y, [camera])

This is something everyone has been waiting for a long time, thank you. I already started using screen_xy_to_world

[BrigitteC]

@AGulev

New camera API is coming in version 1.11.3:

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[Mathias_Westerdahl]

Another feature coming in 1.11.3, setting .astc textures directly from gui.new_texture()

[JosephFerano]

Hello everyone, wanted to share a screenshot of the new breakpoints tab we have been working on. You can also enable/disable breakpoints without having to delete them. It will probably be getting merged next week. Feel free to ask any questions!

[Pawel]

And guys, warmly welcome Joe who joined the Defold Editor Team recently!

[jhonny.goransson]

Sneak peek of setting / getting particle properties via go.get / go.set:

go.set(“/go#test”, “material”, self.red, { keys = {{ emitter_id = “emitter” }} })
go.get(“/go#test”, “material”, { keys = {{ emitter_id = “emitter” }} }