* New actions are available to save & load the game state, making Saving & Loading as easy as adding 1 action to your game!
* While it will work in most cases, it has a few limitations and hasn't been thoroughly tested on all types of objects/behaviors and games, so it is for the moment tagged as **Experimental** while we gather feedback and improve it
* Check out the wiki for more info: https://wiki.gdevelop.io/gdevelop5/all-features/save-state
- Forbid to edit the default variant of published extensions
- Hide the children configuration from the side panel when a variant is used
- Fix the Z-order of nested custom objects in the editor
- Fix a memory crash when updating an extension where behaviors must be removed from child-objects
* This adds two new settings, available in the Project Properties and in the Scene Properties dialog, to allow to specify the strategy for preloading resources of the scenes and unloading them. By default, a game will preload in background the resources of all scenes. It will never unload these resources (so scene switching is fast).
* You can now choose to unload the resources of a scene when the scene is left using the "Resources unloading" field. If the scene is launched again later, it will load its resources again.
* You can also choose to change the preloading to disable it for all scenes (by modifying the setting in the project properties) or enable it/disable it on a scene by scene basis. This can be useful for large or modular games where you anticipate the player to only play some scenes, or if you want to reduce the resources that needs to be loaded on a web game.
- This is an AI agent that takes a request and takes actions on a project: it can create scenes, find and create objects, add, remove behaviors, modify them, put instances on the scene, create or modify events, and more to come (layers, setup leaderboards, etc...).
- It's still in beta and there is room for improvement on many things, but is already useful for prototyping and learning - beginners notably are able to see what the AI can do and learn the concepts of GDevelop. For intermediate and power users, it's useful to try new things, or get things done while working on something else.
- Experiment with it and always make backup of your project before starting - in the future restoration points will be added to go back to a previous state if the result is not good or broken.
- Variants allows to restyle custom objects
- They can be customized with the graphical editor
- The asset store will progressively use them notably for UI elements (buttons, sliders)
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