5.0.0-beta84

✨ New features

• 🎇 Add dozens of new effects for layers, and allow developers to easily create extensions bringing new effects.

  • See an (incomplete!) list of effects available on the wiki.
  • Thanks @Bouh and @blurymind for porting, trying and setting up these new effects for GDevelop: Black and White, Noise, CRT, Godray, Tilt shift, Advanced bloom, Kawase blur, Zoom blur, Displacement, Color Map, Pixelate, Reflection.
  • Want to add a new shader effect to GDevelop? Take a look at the explanations about effects here.
  • Support for effects on objects will be added in a next version

• 📝New object BBText (thanks @blurymind!)

  • Display rich text on screen, formatted using BBCode: customize size, color, make part of the text italic, bold and add shadows or outline.
  • Read the documentation about the object and see an example online.

• 🎨 Improvements in Piskel sprite editor (thanks @blurymind!)

  • Color index shift brush (useful for cell shading sprites)
  • Ability to source all layers when using the bucket tool
  • Palette transfer tool (apply the currently selected palette colors to the frame you are on)

• 🖥 Add an option to automatically resize game resolution to window or screen size. It's recommended to activate it especially for games on mobile phones.

💝 Improvements

• Add new examples (thanks @ddabrahim!)

• Change the way actions are written in the events sheet so that they are all written in proper English and consistent.

  • This improves consistency between actions and conditions: both are displaying the subject first, then the operator (for comparison or change) and then the value (to be compared against or to be used for the change).

• Add link to the new Geometry Monster tutorial and Geometry Monster starter.

• Add actions to change the resolution during the game and enable/disable the automatic resizing.

• Set additional help descriptions to parameters of some actions/conditions.

• Add a menu option to add a long description to functions parameters

• Allow to set colors of comments/groups, and to edit their texts in a separate window (thanks @Bouh!)

• Improve comments edition to be seamless (thanks @Bouh!)

• Add a button to remove the font in the Text object editor (thanks @Bouh!)

• Add colors to warning/alert icons (thaks @Bouh!)

• Update the UI to use filled text fields and inputs, so that it's easier to distinguish them from the rest of the interface.

• Improve responsiveness of the UI on small screens.

• Add titles in some dialogs to make the layout of the dialog clearer.

• Various improvements to the layout of the editors.

Improvements for GDevelop developer and advanced users:

• Remember DevTools open state in previews (thanks @blurymind!)
• Add React DevTools to GDevelop development version (thanks @blurymind!)
• Add watcher to automatically import changes to GDJS and extensions in the IDE when using GDevelop development version.

🐛Bug fixes

• Fix pixel perfect rendering of Panel Sprite (9-patch) objects (thanks @Bouh!)

• Fix memory leak and warning about texture not found.

• Fix outline color when drawing line with Shape Painter (thanks @Bouh!)

• Fix a crash when setting a parameter to be a behavior in a function.

• Fix points position not immediately valid after changing the animation or frame of a Sprite.

• Fix invalid reported width/height after changing the animation or frame of a Sprite.

• Fix "Folder Project"/"Single file" property that could not be changed.

• Fix music/sound considered as stopped just after the Play action was used.

• Fix sound/music restarted when play action was used with the sound/music not previously paused.

• Fix menu still showing as loading after startup on some computers (thanks @Bouh!)

• Rename objects to "instances" for "For Each" event and "Pick All" action (thanks @Bouh!) to avoid confusions

• Various fixes in the UI

• Fix autosave being loaded but not saved as the original file

• Fix events sheet (actions, conditions...) not refreshed after choosing a language