- When activated, the JSON of the project is saved with properties always in alphabetical order. Fields in events are also never omitted.
- The preference is controlled via `gdevelop-settings.yaml` (already read
by the IDE on project open):
```yaml
# gdevelop-settings.yaml
preferences:
canonicalEventSerialization: true
```
Only show in developer changelog
Co-authored-by: Viktor Vovk <vvovk@playtika.com>
Complex expressions and formula will now be shown using multiple colors, like the rest of events. This allows to identify objects, numbers, strings in a long formula.
- This is an advanced, experimental feature which is subject to changes. It's in most cases not useful, unless you have a large game or low end devices for which controlling memory usage is important. It's mostly useful to delay loading of large custom objects.
- Objects can be configured so that its resources are not loaded when the scene is loaded. Instead, you can use an action to manually load the resources used by it. When the loading is done (this can be checked using a condition), the object can then be created.
Be careful: if an object assets are not loaded, it will be broken when displayed on screen.
* Before, this was set as 0 even though displaying as empty in the
variablesList.
* Projects created before 5.6.267 will keep the same behavior (0 as default value for string variables) with an option to move to the new behavior (empty as default value) in the project properties dialog.
* Projects created from 5.6.267 will use the new default behavior (empty as default value)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0d885c70-b68a-431f-8dcb-08e4e193b8a1
- Diagnostic Report previously only scanned layout (scene) events and external events for validation errors. This PR extends the report to also scan events inside extension functions - including top-level ("free") functions, behavior functions, and object functions - detecting missing instructions and invalid parameters.
- Store-installed extensions are excluded from the scan
- Disabled ("commented out") events and their sub-events are skipped everywhere, not just in extensions.
- This will track alive/dead instances of some C++ classes and will throw a JS error in case of usage of a already destroyed object from JavaScript. This should avoid crashing/corrupting the wasm/C++ side by calling a method on an object already destroyed. Instead the exception stays on JS side, without reaching the C++ implementation.
Only show in developer changelog
- For advanced use cases where it's important to run events on each instance of an object with an ordering, the For Each can now have an ordering: an expression can be written and will be evaluated for each instance separately. The For Each will then execute for each instance in the order of the result of the expression.
- It's possible to change the direction (ascending or descending)
- It's also possible to give a limit (for example, 1 will allow to pick just the instance with the highest/lowest value for the expression).
- Examples are provided in the UI for common use cases (maximum value of a variable, health points, ammo, distance to another object...)
- Add a shortcut (**F7** by default) and command in the command palette to open diagnostic report at any time
- The report now scans project for missing actions/conditions/expressions from extensions and reports invalid parameters (shown with red underline in Events Sheet)
- Click on error location to navigate directly to the event
- "For Each Child Variable" now also properly support choosing local variables for the variable to iterate on, and for the variable where to store the child and the optional variable where to store the name.
- The loop counter starts from 0 and is automatically increased by 1 each time the event is repeated.
* 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.
* This is not finished yet:
- Documentation needs to be written.
- Menu item (and shortcut?) to quickly toggle between a standard event and a else event must be added so it's easy to switch from one to the other.
- Design must be adapted to make it clearer that the else event is "linked" to the previous one and is not run if the previous event is run.
- Extensions, behaviors and objects lists now follow the same layout
- Assets are suggested for most custom objects provided by extensions
- Also fix private objects not appearing in the list from within the
extension
D8H