5.4.219

💝 Improvements

• Add a new option for layers, to keep a layer centered when the game size changes, or keep it top-left fixed (as before).

  • This is useful for layers which you want to stay on the center of the screen, which works well with the new option to extend width/height of the project without cropping the game area.
  • If you already move the camera using events, this won't have any impact.
  • This also works well when using the Anchor behavior to position objects on the screen.

  

• New, reworked "Create new game" dialog. It is now the entry point for creating a new game, allowing to:

  • create an empty project from scratch
  • (new!) use a "starting point" for your projects, to bootstrap your platformer, top-down or physics game. They are extremely simple template, with minimal gameplay, perfect for new users discovering GDevelop.
  • start from a project customized by an AI,
  • or as before, one of the many free or premium templates provided with GDevelop.

  

• Add an option in the game properties to extend width or height and never crop the game area.

  • This can be used to ensure your game area is always fully displayed, with a background layer on which you use the "Anchor" behavior to position a tiled sprite or other objects:
    

As well as a few more improvements:

• Projects linked to a game are now shown and can be opened directly from the game dashboard.
  • If a cloud project is not shown, it's usually enough to open it from the Build tab and save it so that it appears in the game dashboard.
• Add "Create new folder" menu item inside "Move to folder" menu.
• Improve LAN preview network to detect local ip properly for Network previews

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix for the anchor behavior when used on layers where the camera was moved. Anchored objects will now work whatever their layer and camera position.
• Fix potential crashes in events function edition
  • Also hide object groups tabs in functions (unless there are groups already) - it's not recommended to use them anymore.
• Fix custom objects inner area expansion on Z axis
• Fix variables from being renamed with a property
• Fix position conflicts between Physics and other movement behaviors
• Fix: Build tilemap renderer from an empty tilemap to be able to create tilemaps in-game
• Fix the parameter name field to avoid changing the name when no change was done
• Fix height when switching to mobile design
• Fix function configuration editor layout when shown as a side panel
• Fix publish flow to allow creating gd.games links if game is not owned
• Disable the variable editor button wrongly shown for object parameters
• Properly show error box to user when an error occurred when creating student accounts
• Fix a crash when Physics behavior is used on object smaller than 0.1 pixels

⚙️ Extensions

• [Reviewed] [Third person camera] Fix the rotation angle offset
• [Reviewed] [Flash and transition] Fix the opacity (thanks @VegeTato)
• [Community] [Flip Gravity] Fix the reset gravity action (thanks @VegeTato)

🕹 Examples

• Improve various examples descriptions
• Add "starting point" examples

🛠 Internal changes (for developers)

• Allow to provide a canvas to be used for the game rendering instead of creating a new one (thanks @danvervlad!)
• Improve typing of EventsFunctionContext
• Remove dead code related to "alwaysLoaded" (thanks @Bouh!)
• Upload files in batch for web-app previews