🌤️ New, ready to use 2D/3D particle effects, skyboxes and fog Effects can now be added from the Asset store, starting with 3D skyboxes and 3D fogs: Many new 2D and 3D particle emitters are also available in the asset store: 💝 Improvements Multiple UI improvements: Preferences : redesigned preferences dialog and keyboard shortcuts, Resources editor: allow selecting multiple resources and apply comm…
💝 Improvements Improvements to make it easier to extend and rework extensions: Add a "move to" menu for properties and allow to copy folders of properties. Also allow to copy all the properties of a custom object or behavior at once (context menu > Copy All). Add a menu option to move custom objects, behaviors and functions (including folder of functions) to another extension. Add a button for cus…
💝 Improvements Add support for multi-selection in the list of objects (Thanks @ViktorVovk!) This lets select, copy, cut, paste, duplicate, delete, and reorganize multiple objects and folders at once — including cross-scene and cross-global-objects actions. Keyboard multi-selection with Shift and Ctrl (or Cmd on macOS) is supported. New, more modern design for variable lists (in the properties pane…
💝 Improvements Navmesh characters speed is now used for physics collision: this results in better handling of objects moved by Navmesh pathfinding Add a "create a new behavior" button in the behavior list dialog 🐛 Bug fixes Robustify Sprite editor selection handling and fix crashs Fix extension sometimes not reloaded when leaving the extension editor Fix the preview of color parameters in the even…
This release contains mainly bugfixes for "gameplay tests". See the release notes of version 5.6.278 to learn about them.
🗺️ New experimental "navmesh-based" pathfinding behavior for 2D and 3D This pathfinding works in 2D and 3D is more flexible than the "grid-based" existing pathfinding. Use the "Pathfinding character" behaviors on the object that must move and add the "Floor/obstacle for pathfinding" behavior to all objects where characters must be able to walk or consider as obstacles (or for 2D: only on obstacles…
💝 Improvements Add support for binary Spine (.skel) skeleton imports, alongside JSON (thanks @ViktorVovk!) On a scene, instances can now be hidden at start using a toggle in the properties panel 🐛 Bug fixes Fix Steam Deck controller not working when exporter to Steam Fix shortcuts/command palette commands not applying properly with popped out editors Fix missing translations for the 3D character b…
🐛 Bug fixes Improved panel sprite performance Fix a crash of the side panel
💝 Improvements Improve object list, project manager and other lists by having top header sticky, including sub-folders. This is helpful for large games when having a lot of objects in different folders for example. Improve sprite editor performance, especially when having a lot of animations. UI improvements: Focus the closest tab when a tab is closed, instead of the home tab. Collapsed sections i…
💝 Improvements You can now restore a recently deleted cloud project: Every user can recover a project deleted by mistake, within a short time. If you have a subscription, you can restore a project deleted up to 30 days ago. Allow to run GDevelop from command line by adding it in PATH at installation (thanks @malec-palec!): This is done automatically on Windows at installation. For portable builds…
💝 Improvements New "Save State" features: New actions to list, delete, check, and duplicate existing saves. Also added ability to wait for actions to be finished before running subsequent actions/sub-events. The properties panel also now allows to edit behavior properties of the selected object group. An object group will show the behaviors that are in common between all objects of the group. Prop…
💝 Improvements Properties panel improvements: It now displays and allow editing scene properties and scene variables, allowing faster edition. Object group properties are also now displayed in this side panel when a group is selected. Update Spine extension to the official Esoteric Software runtime for PixiJS v7 (@esotericsoftware/spine-pixi-v7@4.2.116) (thanks @malec-palec!) The new runtime only…
💝 Improvements Add in the documentation new index pages for objects and behaviors Make search accent-insensitive for better multilingual support 🐛 Bug fixes Avoid reloading unchanged images after editing a Sprite or another object Fix JavaScript code blocks creating layout shifts ("jumps") when scrolling Events Sheet Fix corrupted display of instance when dragging an object back to the objects lis…
💝 Improvements Add "syntax highlighting" for expressions in Events Sheet: 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. UI improvements: Add "Select All" in Events Sheet and ability to deselect an event when doing a multi-selection (Thanks @ViktorVovk!) Hide deprecated extension…
This version had a bug making objects created using actions of extensions like Fire Bullet or Object Spawner not picked in subsequent actions. Download version 5.6.269 instead!
💡 New 3D Spot Light and Point Light objects 3D lights can now be used with the new "3D spot light" and "3D point light" objects! You can find them in the "New Object" dialog. Check out the documentation here. Light objects can be demanding on the GPU, especially when they cast shadows. To allow to add many lights to a scene, the engine automatically hides the lights farthest from the camera. By de…
This version had some issues with events rendering - due to fixes to try to improve Events Sheet rendering which made things worse. Download version 5.6.268 instead!
🪟 Experimental option to open editors in separate windows Right clicking on a tab now displays an option to detach a tab into a separate window (both on the desktop app and the web-app). This enables to work on events sheet, extensions or other parts of a game without switching between tabs. It's also perfect for multi-monitor displays. ⚠️ This is an experimental feature: some part of the editor m…
💝 Improvements Bring forward the preview window on the web-app when "Update" is clicked Allow extensions to set different icons for behaviors and objects 🐛 Bug fixes Fix many potential crashes in the scene editor 🛠 Internal changes (for developers) Improve logs in case of UseAfterFreeError Upgrade react-dnd to v14 and simplify drag-and-drop setup Ensure JSON files end with a new line (Thanks @opal…
💝 Improvements Operators in new actions/conditions added with the context menu now automatically defaults to "Set to" or "equals" 🐛 Bug fixes Fix Spine objects not properly loading in the editor anymore. Also fix hot reloading of Spine objects in preview and the 3D editor Fix a crash when deleting a function folder while one of its function was selected Fix tentatively crashes at scene editor resi…