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Mesh distortion, in-app reviews, voice recorder example & more
06 October, 2020 ()
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We have a big new release for you today with some exciting new features!
First up is we're introducing mesh distortion - an advanced feature that allows sprites to be split in to a grid of points, and each point moved individually to deform the appearance of the object. It even also deforms the collision polygon accordingly, so the adjusted sprite collides like you would expect too! Check out the new mesh distortion examples in the Start Page (just search for mesh), and stay tuned for further updates related to this feature coming soon.
Another new feature is that the existing Request app rating action in the Share plugin now uses the Android In App Review API when supported. This means it prompts the user to leave a review within the app itself. Note this requires your app to be published to the Play Store and there are also quotas limiting how much it can be used - see the relevant Android documentation for more details.
Finally we have a new Voice recorder example that shows how you can record a clip from the microphone and download or share the recording, along with some Game Recorder improvements to make this more convenient. As ever there's also a batch of bug fixes, and some performance work was done this release too. Note that we're dropping support for the legacy Microsoft Edge - the new Chromium-based Edge is still supported. Our data indicates the vast majority of users have already updated, but in case you still need to, you can install the update at microsoft.com/edge.
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Launch r219
New Features
Share Plugin: 'Request app rating' action now supports Android's new 'In App Review API' to leave review without leaving app
New Additions
Add 'Mesh distortion' and 'Mesh relative displacement' advanced examples
'Voice recorder' advanced example
Game Recorder: 'RecordingType' and 'RecordingFileExtension' expressions
Changes
Dropped support for the legacy Microsoft Edge in the editor. Update to the latest Chromium-based Edge at
microsoft.com/edge
Animations Editor: allow up to 16 collision poly points before warning appears
Bug Fixes
User media: could fail to request access to camera/mic on first run
Text: incorrect TextHeight calculation when changing text size with BBcode
OneDrive cloud save: could fail to list all items in big folders
Confirmation prompts (including "update to latest beta" prompt) did not always accept action with Enter key
Animations editor: crash using the mouse wheel to zoom (Chrome OS)
Animations editor: crash using the reload tool before saving the project
Animations editor: avoid closing the editor when pressing escape while editing an animation's name
Tilemap brush editor: "Remove tile" context menu option was not working properly on 47 tile brushes
Tilemap brushes: auto tile brushes were not saved when duplicating a tilemap object type
Timeline bar: keyframe selection toolbar button was never enabled
Start page 'Fetching project files' scripting example not loading
Performance Improvements
Optimize bounding box calculations for rotated objects
SDK updates
Add mesh distortion SDK APIs
Scripting updates
Add mesh distortion scripting APIs
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