Ceramic v1.6.0

This release brings a lot of small bugfixes and improvements. It also bumps Haxe version to 4.3.6 (latest on this day) as well as latest HXCPP (from git).

How to update Ceramic

Via haxelib: haxelib run ceramic setup
Via git: https://ceramic-engine.com/guides/ceramic-via-git/#update-your-existing-ceramic-via-git

Changelog

• [android] Update project template to target API 34
• [runtime] Add Utils.sign()
• [android] Add gamepad support to Android 🎮
• [android] Add support of --run-apk option when using clay run android: builds an apk and runs it with adb. Displays clean and coloured logs like other platforms
• [runtime] Add eagerTween() and eagerTransition() to start tweens and transitions that update using current frame delta instead of 0
• [runtime] Reuse start vertices when looping arc, and do not change mesh size from MeshExtensions
• [runtime] Add GeometryUtils.intersectCircles()
• [tools] Better output when running Ceramic via vscode
• [runtime] A few Camera improvements
• [tools] Better vscode launch.json
• Add text.glyphCode optional callback used to override the char code of each glyph to be displayed. #140
• Allow to track down meshes with invalid colors or floatColors array using debug build or ceramic_debug_mesh_colors as well as ceramic_debug_entity_allocs defines. Fix #141
• [runtime] Remove the use of data field (can still use it with ceramic_entity_data define)
• [runtime] Add EntityData util to manage data associated with an entity (using DynamicData component internally)
• [tilemap] Add hasTileAtPosition()
• [arcade] Explicitly fail when giving invalid tile size
• [tools] Use absolute paths when debugging, use relative paths for release builds but make tools smarter to resolve paths when displaying them in vscode and similar
• [ldtk] Fixes (thanks @carlito767 !)
• [runtime] Fix variant asset not being removed properly in some situations
• [runtime] Additional checks when adding a visual child

Dependency updates

• Update to haxe 4.3.6
• Update tracker
• Update ase
• Move to hxcpp from git

New Contributors

• @carlito767 made their first contribution in #142

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0