August 12 2024

Note - releases no longer include binaries in the release notes.
Download the latest version here: https://docs.flatredball.com/flatredball

Biggest Changes

• FlatRedBall Web is available. New projects can now target Web and run in a browser.
• WAV files can now load from-file, but in code and in the FRB Editor. This reduces FRB editor open times and build times since it no longer requires using the content pipeline.
• Lots of work on synced projects for the new FlatRedBall Web platform, although these improvements also carry over to all mobile platforms too.
• Added fps display to profiling tab, including the ability to toggle fixed timestep, vsync. Also, whether the game has focus is shown since that affects fps.

Everything Else

FRB Editor

• Fixed possible crash when adding new CSV
• Newly-added CSVs now always default to dictionary
• If Gum is missing a more informative error is displayed to the user
• Added support for checkbox that indicates whether missing shapes in an animated sprite should be created
• FRB editor now supports displaying conditional variable visibility, allowing plugins to hide/show variables depending on the state of other variables
• All songs now restart if they change from the previous song on screen change. This will be customizable in a future commit
• Linking a game to source now also links synced projects
• Recent files now shows main project type
• Adding new and synced project now darkens editor and shows a spinner
• Fixed compile error in ReloadFile if a file has a conditional compilation (#if)
• Added support for populating TileNodeNetwork from a specific tile layer (thanks @mfigueirido )
• Link project to source no longer shows Skai Gum if project is not DesktopGL - this may change in the future if mobile ends up being able to support skia gum rendering.
• Faster content pipeline builds since the editor no longer searches for the pipeline tool on every build.
• AnimationEditor preview can now set background color
• Fixed possible crash on selection after search
• Adding a new entity now shows a dropdown with the target folder. This also includes when inheriting from an entity.
• Fixed crashes when deleting objects
• Fixed bug where renaming an entity would not properly update variant variables
• Added text under Sprite animations setting collision to indicate why generated code won't add the call if the entity is not an ICollidable
• Adding a synced project no longer shows the checkbox for running the wizard
• All files that use the content pipeline now generate file aliases, allowing with-extension loading of all files, and fixing Gum crash when trying to load files that use the content pipeline

Edit Mode

• Fixed possible crash in edit mode

FRB Engine and Code-related

• Added null toleration on resizing to support the unpredictable resizing behavior of browsers
• Smaller Tiled layers now use 16 bit index buffers instead of 32 bit, further reducing the size of data passed to the GPU every frame
• Newly-created shapes from an animated sprite now attach themselves to the top parent (entity) rather than the sprite.
• NAudio_Song now respects forceRestart parameter in AudioManager.PlaySong
• NAudio_Song now raises an event when it loops
• Moving to a new screen now clears key presses
• Lots more XML docs in source
• Added new constructor FloatRectangle(Point center, float width, float height) (thanks @mfigueirido )
• Variant GetByName now checks fully qualified name
• "new" syntax in CSVs now properly instantiates derived types

New Project Templates and Forms

• FlatRedBall Web template is now available

Full Changelog: July_9_2024...August_12_2024