Hello! Not so long I released a huge update for Panthera 2.0 Editor, which brings the awesome "Template animations" feature. Now you can re-use animation files to make a composition of them, design a separate widgets with their animations and use them etc

Here is a changelog from the latest release:

Updated Getting Started Page

https://github.com/Insality/panthera/blob/prerelease/docs_editor/getting_started.md

Hotfixes

v1114 Fix for Linux/Windows loading issues Add Linux ARM build

v1120 Fix for atlas and luminance images issue Font size now can be changed in runtime

Dependencies

https://github.com/Insality/panthera/archive/refs/tags/runtime.5.zip https://github.com/Insality/defold-tweener/archive/refs/tags/5.zip

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Changelog

• Add Template Animations
  • Currently, it automatically search for the {GUI_NAME}_panthera.lua file nearby with binded GUI or Collection file.
  • If animation exists, you able to select and play template animations from this file
  • If not, you can double click on template node to create a new animation file for this template
  • To add Animation Key, select the template and select the animation in the list from Play Animation dropdown
  • While using Lua format, all template animations will be explicity required in project file
    • It means you can get build-time errors if any of animation is not exists
• Add Animation Project Info Preview
  • When selection animation project at Home tab, the animation information will be shown in the preview panel on the right
  • Contains information:
    • Animation list with Duration
    • Used nodes and their properties
    • Used event ids
    • Used template animations in
• Add Filter Nodes panel
  • You able to search nodes by names
  • You able to exclude nodes by add ! prefix, example: !text
  • You able to group them with space, like enemy_prefab !root
• Fix Windows issues
  • The several issues with the paths on Windows was fixed, the editor should work better on Windows now
• Better Copy-Paste for timeline keys logic
  • Several fixes about how timeline keys should be copied to and more correct keys distribution in various cases
• Add support for the Defold Atlas pivot points feature
• Max supported atlas size is now 8192x8192 (increased from 4096x4096)
• Template transform now applies to all root nodes instead of using template transform
  • Now the animation of root properties will be more correct, since template nodes inherit tempalte transform in runtime
• Add Show at Desktop right click menu for all template nodes in Nodes List View
• Add Fold/Unfold Nodes button in Animation Mode
• Add Inspector for Defold/Lua Project
  • You able to open Defold project as a folder or ready json LLS export file
  • The LLS should be installed, the path can be customized in Panthera Editor Settings
  • This Inspector allows easily inspect all Lua annotations in one place
  • You able to open you code editor at the place where class or function is defined
  • You able to adjust your code editor settings in Panthera Editor Settings
  • Probably open folder only works on MacOS with LLS installed in the system
• Add Panthera Editor Settings
  • You able to custom an various path for the Inspector project
  • You able to customize the default easings for the new created Timeline Keys
• Add Select Nodes by Keys feature
  • Currently this option placed in right-button settings menu
  • When option is enabled, on selection timeline keys all relative nodes will be selected
  • It raise the comfort with nodes while operating only with timeline keys
• Timeline Panel UI/UX Improvements
  • All selected nodes and properties will be highlighted
• Add Panthera Editor Settings per Defold Project
  • You able to create a custom editor settings which will be applied to all animations in this project
  • Create a panthera_editor_config.json file in the project root to customize the editor settings
  • You can set another path in game.project file in panthera.panthera_editor_config field
• Update for new Defold
• Font Size can be changed at runtime without reloading
• Various Fixes in Defold collections exports
• Fixes with atlas with luminance image type

panthera_editor_config.json example:

{
    "timeline_key_numbers": false,
    "custom_event_ids": [
        {
            "event_id": "my_event",
            "default_data": "icon_id"
        },
        {
            "event_id": "my_event_2",
            "default_data": "username"
        }
    ],
    "timeline_colors": {
        "position_x": "#EB6262",
        "position_y": "#55CC6F",
        "position_z": "#80C0E3"
    },
    "font_size": 40
}

Changelog Runtime

• Add support for Shadow and Outline properties for text labels
• You can use a hashed animation id: hash("animation_id") to specify the animation.
  • Useful if you want to specify the animation from the script properties (via go.property).
• The panthera.set_time now trigger Events in forward time change
  • Not triggered in reverse time change
• Additional checks for deleted nodes in the animation playback
  • Only for game objects
• Add global Panthera speed modifier (panthera.SPEED)
  • Now you can adjust speed with three modifiers
    • global (panthera.SPEED)
    • state (animation_state.speed)
    • instance animation (animation.speed)
• Refactor the animation playback system, should be more performant
• Fix for is_editor_only key field