THNK - Alpha 4

ALWAYS DOWNLOAD HERE INSTEAD FOR THE LATEST VERSIONS OF ALL EXTENSIONS ---> https://github.com/arthuro555/THNK/tree/master/extensions

Hello! It's time for a new release again 🎉

Before we get started with the changelog, a few notes:

Since it wasn't clear to some people how early THNK is, I decided to rename "Previews" to "Alphas", as that is a more common way to describe very early software.

There are no stability guarantee in any way in using a release instead of the latest version of the repository - they are more of an occasion to make a summary of the changes done so far through the changelog. If this release is old, I recommend you get your extensions from here instead ;) To download one of those, click on it, then on "Raw", then download the page (Ctrl-S or right click & "Save as") as a JSON extension.

With that out of the way...

Changelog

✨ Features

• Add a local adapter for previews!
  • It works on all platforms without internet
  • It's a fast network-less direct connection
  • It can start a few client windows that auto-connect to the server, for faster testing
• Added player specific state variables!
  • Those are only synced with a single player. This is good for both keeping secrets secret and the bandwidth of everyone being overloaded by information meant for a single other player
  • Access it like the state variable, except as PlayerState.
  • Learn more
• Added tint syncing

🔧 Fixes

• Fixed the geckos server adapter crashing the game when failing to start
• Fixed the geckos server adapter requiring administrator permissions in some cases
• Fixed pre-placed objects sometimes remaining as zombies
• Fixed players occasionally triggering the connection event twice
• Fixed the geckos server ID changing every frame

📘 Docs

• Moved the site to https://thnk.cloud
• Spelling & wording fixes by @Entr0py404 in #27
• Added 3rd page to getting started tutorial
• Added pages about game state and state variables
• Fixed "Edit this page" button
• Replaced old mentions of WebSockets with geckos.io
• Updated the design with @Midhil457's designs

🛠 Internal changes

• Storing a snapshot of the diffs
  • This will allow to resend diffs that were lost in UDP packet loss
  • This allows re-serializing diffs differently based on the player (e.g. for the PlayerState variable)
• Use absolute imports in modules

Full Changelog: preview-3...alpha-4

Contributors

Thanks again to all contributors to the project!

• @Entr0py404 in #27
• @Midhil457 in ad773b7

THNK Preview #3

Another preview has come again! Remember that the project is still in pre-beta phase, as always, use at your own risks!

📃 Changelog

✨ Features

• Messages are now automatically compressed, the protocol is even more lightweight now.
• Geckos.io adapters have been released. Those allow to create a true local server on a machine that others can connect to using its IP address (or domain name if has one).
  • Note that GDevelop previews with a geckos.io server only work on windows! Full builds should work on all PC platforms, though.
• Add support for syncing the text of all object types that can hold a text
• Add support for syncing the flipping of an object

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix objects not always being deleted on the client
• Fix syncing the objects' width and height
• Fix synced variables ignoring the predefined values in the variables editor
• Fix the syncing of 0-values not working correctly

📃 Docs

• Released the source code of the docs

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Full Changelog: preview-2...preview-3

THNK Preview #2

This is still a preview, not the beta release, just like the release before. No guarantees on backwards compatibility are guaranteed and there may be bugs! Use at your own risks.

📃 Changelog

✨ Features

• Added linking an object to a player
• Make diffs of variables smaller (it takes less bandwidth to synchronize State variables now!)

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fixed some object properties not being synced when they should
• Fix syncing the text of a text object crashing the game
• Fix a crash when doing a snapshot of an object's State variable

THNK Preview #1

A little preview of THNK before the beta release 🤫

THIS IS NOT IN A BARELY USABLE STATE, USE AT YOUR OWN RISKS!