* For now, this is limited to instances inside custom objects. This will be made available in the future for all instances in scenes if this works well.
* When an object is selected (or when "Edit object" button is clicked in the properties panel after choosing an instance), the properties panel will show the properties of the object.
* This allows for fast edition of most elements of an object: appearance, properties, but also behaviors, variables and effects. Most workflow and iterations on your game should be faster, from adapting the appearance of a text to tweaking behaviors and updating the preview to check the result in realtime.
* Still to do:
* Properly handle effects (disable 3D effects) for layers
* Handle hot reloading properly
* Avoid duplicating the configuration of the custom object inside each object created from it. Instead, only store the modified values.
* Add a "Extract as a custom object ("prefab")" when selecting instances in a scene.
* Add a dialog to give choice between 2D or 3D object when creating one.
* Make sure "behavior shared data" are properly handled (physics, pathfinding...)
* Check if we need to give an expression to translate coordinates from the parent to the local custom object.
* Ensure a deleted custom object does not break the editor
Co-authored-by: Davy Hélard <davy.helard@gmail.com>
* This opens the path to multiple performance improvements (faster WebGL rendering, and then WebGPU rendering) as well as optimised resources loading in the future.
* This provides new 3D objects: 3D Box (perfect to create walls, floors, or billboards) and 3D Model (to import objects created in a 3D modeling app).
* 2D and 3D can be mixed in a same game. Each layer of a game can contain 2D objects, 3D objects or a mix of both.
* This allows to build 2D games, 2.5D games and full 3D games: platformers, racing games, FPS, hyper casual games. It's easy to start adding 3D objects to an existing 2D game.
* You can set up a light by adding an ambient light and/or directional light in the effects of a 3D layer. 3D objects can be configured to react to light or ignore it.
* In the future, support for 3D objects will be improved: light objects, animations, etc...
* This should make it easier to identify and find actions/conditions. Categories give more clarity and icons help to identify what's available without reading everything.
* When launching the Debugger to inspect a game, open the Console to see internal messages sent by the game, JavaScript code or the game engine.
* This is an advanced feature that is useful to find issues in your game or to see if your game is displaying any internal error.
* This allows to generate interesting visual effects, which can be controlled by events. For example, you can use an outline on an object to highlight, make the player glow when launching a spell, blur objects, etc...
* A new "effects" tab is now present in the objects editor. From there, you can add visual effects, that were already available for layers, customize them from this editor.
* Actions and conditions are available to manipulate effects and change their parameters during the game.
* Learn more on the wiki: http://wiki.compilgames.net/doku.php/gdevelop5/objects/effects
Co-authored-by: Florian Rival <Florian.Rival@gmail.com>
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* More generally, fix resources exposed by any object declared in JavaScript
* Refactored GetProperties (and UpdateProperty) across behavior/object/behavior shared data to remove the dependency on gd::Project.
* Also fix similar smaller memory leak when using other features.
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This avoids calling new gd.PropertyDescriptor every time properties of an object/behavior are accessed, which would result in these gd.PropertyDescriptor to be never destroyed. This would fill up the memory, especially quickly with the BB Text object as properties are queried to render the instances on screen.
"getOrCreate" is now exposed for the map of properties, which is cleaner and memory leak free.
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