GameSalad 0.8.5 Now Available

quantumsheep

Get in there, iPad junkies!

QS

EDIT: Dear Gendai.

I think you broke the viewer...

Cheers,

QS

2nd Edit:

iphone .85 viewer now up.

I come from the future, you know - try and keep up

iPhoneDevForMe

Woohoo!! Fixed the splash screen!

Breezeonhold

What was wrong with the splash screen?

CodeMonkey

Oops. I forgot to write in the release notes for GS Creator to update your GS Viewer(s).

iPhoneDevForMe

It didn't autorotate at launch which caused some games to be rejected!

quantumsheep

Thanks for the update, CM. Now I can view iPad stuff in preview, rather than having to do a web preview.

I think we should all PAUSE for a mo', in thanks.

CodeMonkey

QS. I'm hijacking your thread.

Release Notes, GameSalad Creator version 0.8.5 beta

*Features*

# Ability to hide the scenes list in Preview Player
# Ability to scale the view to 50% for larger resolution games in the Preview Player

*Fixes*

# Auto-rotation fixed for initial device orientation
# Publishing server fixed to allow OS3.0 games.
# Pro membership custom loading screens added again.
# Actor size changes also resize collision area.
# Touch count reset when getting push notifications.
# Linear velocity attribute can now be used in expressions.

Update your GS Viewer(s) if you have them.

JackBQuick

Thank you, CodeMonkey. It gets better and better.

bladeolson

TOTALLY STOKED! thanks guys!

Crazybreadman

@TSB I think he means that when you resize an actor the collision resizes also.

quantumsheep

Good luck to everyone with their submissions.

As a side note, I found a bug.

If you want to take screenshots from within GS (i.e. save to disk, make the image the project or scene shot) the image is 'distorted'.

Cheers,

QS

P.S - Follow the great Tshirtbooth's example - vote for option 4

scorelessmusic

Thanks for the quick update work!

izam

Thanks! I can now work on the iPad version of my hamster panic!

JamesZeppelin

thanks soooooooooo much for the added bonuses.

made the wait not so bad in the end

synthesis

Nice job GS devs on the quick fix of 8.4
Now please oh please...get back to work on game engine optimization!!!
I only need about a 10-20% release of RAM. 30% would be AWESOME!

At this pace we should probably assume an 8.6 release by May 1? ;-)
I'm really digging the quick updates!!! hee hee!

(and say a prayer 3.1.1 is just more anti-Flash hype)

Vmlweb

Don't know if anyone noticed but I just saw that the GS Viewer works almost 100% in multitasking.
I'm testing a game and it stays there when i reopen it.
To quit the game I have to quit that app multitasking

Toby

Good work on the update, Q: At what stage is GS actually no longer Beta... 1.0?

Ditto the work on the performance - Gendai need to squeeze every ounce of performance out of GS, which not too bad but slows when stuff gets busy - still has a long way to go.

Maybe utilise some of those new 4.0 API's for performance improvements.

cptongsg

I just love every new release, alway got surprise features. Great job GS!

jonmulcahy

Toby, just to put things in perspective, VLC media player was in beta for over 10 years!

Weswog

iPad launch image orientation is still not working because I tried it on the iPad and it didn't turn when I turned the iPad. If there is something I am not doing right please tell me.
Also thank you so much for the update:)
EDIT: Also does the launch image need to be in all four orientations or just what your game is in.

Cheers, Weswog

JamesZeppelin

@weswog

The emails apple sends are a little misleading

They title it like it needs to support all orientations but then it goes on to say it was denied because our games were not int eh same orientation as the splash scene

In short...

One orientation is fine but the splash has to be the same as the game
The problem was the splash would start correct then rotate 90º and stop perpendicular to the game orientation

Weswog

Thank you it's now all clear to me.

Cheers, Weswog

butterbean

Thanks for the update GS! Very nice update !

nulo

Does the actor size/collision area change, means i can use the interpolate behavior To change size on colliding actors?

ORBZ

What does this mean:

"Linear velocity attribute can now be used in expressions."

You could always use the Linear Velocity X and Y in expressions. What's new about this?

quantumsheep

@Nulo - you think like I do - pseudo 3D anyone?

Edit: And good job on the poll. If we can assume that the people who think the update is great (first option) also want pause implemented (4th option) then pause is wanted by 100% of people who voted!

/considers a career in politics...

CodeMonkey

@ORBZ Re:"Linear velocity attribute can now be used in expressions."
There was an issue I found that you couldn't store the current linear velocity value of an actor in an attribute. I was trying to make a pause demo that stored the current linear velocity values in the actor so when it came out of pause it would get that value back when you use Accelerate or Change Velocity(non-Move [To]) behaviors to move an actor.

@nulo and @qs, someone found that if you use Interpolate to change the size of an actor, the collision area didn't change as well. But there were other behaviors that could cause that when changing the actor's size, so the fix was generalized.

synthesis

@Codemonkey
So if there was a bug that allowed the collision area to be a different size than the actor size...then why not turn that bug into a new feature!!! It would be great to be able to define the collision size separate from the actor size...which would allow dropshadow or glow effects to be incorporated into the actor images. Currently to do a drop shadow...you have to have a tagalong actor constrained to the actor to make the shadow a separate graphic...which kills the overhead. A separate collision zone size parameter on the actor would allow us the ability to have MUCH more graphic freedom within a single actor.

An even better feature yet would be multi-layered actors with custom designed collision zones!!!

JamesZeppelin

I agree with synth

Event hough we can only have square or circle being able to resize the collision
would be an amazing compromise

TwistedMech

When I clicked the camera to take picture of scene, seems the image is corrupted. Does anyone else get this? I was using iPhone Landscape mode.

quantumsheep

Yep, I mentioned this on the first page, Mr. Biscuits

And yay! Pause is ahead by one vote! Do it people! A happy sheepy is a productive and helpful one

QS