Developer Update: Moddio Game Engine 2.0.8 Release

We’re excited to bring you the latest update to our game development platform, Moddio Engine 2.0.8 release. This version includes several large updates, including performance enhancements, Editor improvements, UI revamps and several bug fixes which should help make your game development experience feel smoother and more intuitive.

What’s New in 2.0.8:

• Backend: Refactored attribute streaming and update function; setting value, max, and min all use the same pipeline
• Backend: Changed compression from LZ-String to LZUTF8 for 4x faster decoding performance (encoding compression is 3x slightly slower)
• Backend: Removed UI text sanitization that was degrading client-side performance
• Editor: New script action: “make player camera to stop tracking a unit”
• Inline Editor improvements:
  • Supports % (modulo), ^ (exponent) operators in math
  • Some functions like thisEntity also work without function brackets ()
  • Supports getEntityVariable in low level
  • Fixed some bugs in nested objects
• UI: UI page now uses dark design
• UI: added an In-Game UI section to the UI views
• UI: Added additional customization for in-game UI. The following editing actions and triggers are now available:
  • Trigger: “when a player clicks on UI HTML element”, passes triggeringElementId and triggeringPlayer:
  • Action: “show/hide UI element with ID (string) for (player)”:
  • Action: “set innerHTML of UI element with ID (string) for (player) to (string)”
  • Basic documentation can be found here
• Bug fix: Making a player to select a different unit now releases keys pressed for the previous unit
• Bug fix: Cancelling region creation still created a new region
• Bug fix: “when attribute becoming full” trigger and “when attribute becomes 0 or less” trigger doesn’t run on local
• Bug fix: Physics engine tick rate was constantly set at 60 regardless of settings value

Getting Started with 2.0.8:

Try out these updates on your own games! Go to our website www.modd.io and select the game you’d like to change versions. Click on Editor > Game Settings >Engine tab. You will see a field labeled “Engine Version” and you can change this to “2.0.8” to try out all the new features.

Your Feedback Matters:

Your experience and feedback are crucial for improving the Moddio game engine. WE encourage you to explore these new features and share your feedback on our Forums. Please report any bugs and include the engine version you’re using.

As always, thanks for your support. We’re excited to see what you make with Moddio Engine 2.0.8!