Gamesalad Release 0.11.0.13 verson !

Gamesalad Release 0.11.0.13 verson !

it's great news!
今天的大新聞!
在歷經了13個版本更新只有pro帳號能測試體驗的先行版之後,
(雖然我也是pro帳號,但我沒下載先行版來玩^^")
終於在今天凌晨稍早的時候官網正式放出正式版了!
等不及這個週末來好好體驗新版本的新功能跟特色了.
以下是官方的新版本特色及說明.

It's been a long time coming, but version 0.11.0.13 for Mac is now live and ready for your use! Windows is coming soon... We've done our best to make this build stable. Be sure to let us know if you run into any more issues and we'll address them as soon as possible.

Here's the release notes:

New Pro-only Features:

• Use network behaviors to send and receive data with almost any kind of server. Build asynchronous turn-based games or client-server apps, store data remotely, or sync with your own data server. It's all possible with new network behaviors.
  
  加入網路連線合作/對戰遊玩功能!
  不過這邊跟我們一般想像的幾百幾千人同時上線的OLG的玩法不太一樣,
  GS的網路連線遊玩機制是統一連線到GS合作的server,
  再同步與交換玩家的資料,
  優點是簡化了功能以及server架設的麻煩
  這也是GS這套引擎的精神,簡單好上手.
  但缺點應該就是極少的連線人數以及可能不太適合/無法傳遞太大量的資料
  我想像最接近的遊玩形式可能會類似格鬥遊戲或fps遊戲開房間這樣,
  4~8人的連線人數的形式比較有可能.
  回應的速度可能也是個問題,
  動作遊戲不知道做不做的起來.
  下棋或是撲克牌那種回合制的連線遊戲我猜想在遊玩體驗上應該比較沒問題.
  
  
• Two new cross-platform ad networks (Chartboost and RevMob) mean more ad inventory, more control, more profitable games.
  
  本次亮點,
  新增了跨平台可用的廣告商Chartboost跟RevMob!
  這樣做免費的小遊戲可以選擇據說效果不錯的Charsboost了!
  
  
• Extend your branding and design by replacing your device's native application loading wheel with a custom image sequence of your choice. For Android, if no custom loading wheel is selected, it will now use the device's native loading wheel.
  
  可以自行定義讀取進度Bar/custom loading的設計.
  之前的版本都是固定一個小齒輪在轉.
  這個功能我也期待很久了^^
  
  以上都是pro帳號才有的功能.
  也是這次更新最大的亮點!
  
  

Features:

• Our largest update ever! Over 240 bug fixes and improvements, optimizations and refactors. All of which means a more stable development experience, fewer app crashes, and more tools to help you make great games!
  
  以下就是一般帳號也有的了,
  修復超過240個bug,優化並重構了引擎,大幅減低crash的機會,
  然後新增許多工具跟特色功能等等等...
  就不一個一個寫成中文了^^"
  
  
• Display text relative to an actor or a scene with new text display parameters, and enjoy new substring, replace, repeat, and find functions that allow for complex string manipulation.
• New Looping and Loop Over Table behaviors can dramatically reduce the complexity of your projects and increase performance! What used to take dozens of behaviors can now be done with one or two.
• New multi-touch attributes - no longer in the dark as to which touch is being used, you can now identify which of the up to 11 simultaneous touch events is currently active!
• New table related functions will help make table usage even more powerful. You can add several values in a column together or search rows or columns for a particular value with lightning speed in not only development but at run time too.
• Web Preview is now available for all projects, and works more like Creator Preview.
• Web Preview now allows you to jump to a scene, similar to how Creator Preview works.
• URLs for the OpenURL behavior can now be constructed using the expression editor.
• Stretch option now available for games.
• New Buzz behavior allows users to utilize iPhone vibration.
  Android and iOS viewers now display the current version number on the screen.
• You now have the ability to compare expressions within rules.
• You now have two new expressions - round and roundTo in the expression editor. Round will round to the nearest whole number. RoundTo will round to the nearest value in decimal places.
• Change Scene Behavior can now select a scene by index, instead of by name only.
• Support for Google Play apps for Tablet by allowing users to set minimum SDK level.

Fixes:

• Over 240 bug fixes and improvements, including the following major fixes.
• Fixed issues with Apple rejecting apps with In-App Purchases.
• Added support for Android 4.3 and 4.4.
• Fixed attributes resetting to 0 when editing numbers greater than 1000. Disallowed comma entry for numeric actor and scene attributes.
• Fixed Image library issue with removing images after a Replace.
• Fixed Creator Preview crash with large number of particles.
• Fixed images not updating properly in Creator after being replaced.
• Fixed text alignment issues when text is changed.
• Fixed "Change Image" drop down not updating after new images were imported into project.
• Fixed Display Text showing up as black boxes on older Android devices.
• Fixed an issue where apps would crash if the GameSalad Network bar didn't load correctly.
• Fixed Usernames with spaces causing a "Bad URL" error when attempting to sign an app.
• Actor visible attribute can now be set during gameplay.
• Android now sets the screen size for the device. This should now work like iOS.
• Fixed punctuation in game project filenames causing errors and potentially crashes.
• Fixed text wrapping where it shouldn't be on Android.
• Fixed several actor instance/prototype sync issues with the Scene Editor.
• Fixed color picker crashing or becoming unresponsive.
• Fixed Android apps hanging when trying to play unsupported audio formats.
• Fixed URL misdirection when iOS apps fail to sign. Now points to the correct Cookbook page.
• Fixed timing issues with Interpolate and Animation behaviors.

Notes:

• Due to changes in the image loading code we now only support a subset of image creation tools and png optimizers. We have done compatibility testing with many of the popular image creation application. Here are the ones we know that work with our new loading code: Fireworks, Photoshop, Inkscape, Gimp, Illustrator (however, we do not support Photoshop exported 8 bit PNGs). We have unofficial support for Blurizer or Posterizer (using pngnq). We do not support pngquant. Anything that is not on this list is not tested or does not work. These applications are what we are going to support in 0.11.0 for image creation. We do not support other PNG optimizers.
  
  之前在GS官方論壇看到說新的圖像引擎大幅提升載入速度以及執行效率,
  應該就是這個了.
  並且新的圖像引擎只支援標準格式的.png圖檔
  (不支援8位元的png圖檔)
  
  
• Viewers do not currently have the Stretch view; this will be coming in a later update.
• Free users must select "yes" to using the Advertising Identifier (IDFA) when uploading their app through iTunes Connect, as well as check the first two Advertising Identifier options. Pro Users will only need to check this option based on whether or not they are using ads in their app.