The Defold game engine just released version 1.2.120. The two biggest features of this release are support for Android MultiDex as well as the ability to pre-warm particle systems. If you are interested in learning more about the Defold engine, we have a tutorial series available here.
Details of this release:
DEF-2888
– Added: Android MultiDex support for NE.DEF-2373
– Added: Option to pre-warm ParticleFX emitters.DEF-3087
– Added:label.get_text_metrics
function for label component.DEF-3086
– Fixed: Memory leak when loading two collectionproxies async that shared resources.DEF-3098
– Fixed: Reenabledrender.draw_line
andrender.draw_text
for release builds.DEF-2434
– Fixed: Bug when stopping one ParticleFX component would stop any other PFX on same GO.DEF-3049
– Fixed: LiveUpdate resources could sometimes be invalidated when upgrading an Android app.DEF-3027
– Fixed: LiveUpdate resource header verification.DEF-3062
– Fixed: Bug where Spine rotations did not behave as expected.DEF-3099
– Fixed: Childed GOs to model and Spine bones were delayed one frame.DEF-3091
– Fixed: Added a build error check for Collada files with more than one root bone.DEF-3093
– Fixed: Better error message when bundling and no iOS provisioning profile was specified (Bob.jar).DEF-3073
– Fixed: Addedrdynamic
and"-Wl,option"
support for platforms that support it on NE.DEF-3076
– Fixed:dmBuffer::GetStream
doesn’t crash on null arguments anymore.DEF-2540
– Fixed: Performance issue when muting all sounds. (This also fixes the fast forward issue.)DEF-3071
– Fixed: Optimized render update to sort less during each draw call.DEF-3059
– Fixed: User can now set break points in the user render script (and not the builtin one).DEF-3090
– Fixed: Fixed components that previously sent wrong world matrix to shaders. (Spine, Model and ParticleFX).