mikatuo / vscode-defold-buddy

Productivity tools for Defold to make your life easier and coding experience nicer

Defold Buddy

Tools for Defold to make your life a bit easier and coding experience in Lua nicer.

Features

IntelliSense

Demo (Defold API)

1. Open a Defold project
2. You should see a prompt to initialize the extension

or

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P (or Cmd+Shift+P) or go to View > Command Palette.
2. Select Defold: Initialize

Demo (project dependencies)

Autocompletion for Defold URLs in .script and .lua files

Demo

Note: read about the addressing if you are not familiar with the concept

Known issues

For now the suggestions are not refreshed automatically when you make any changes to your .go and .collection files. For now you need to re-index them manually by runnin a command.

1. Open a .script file, you should see suggestions after typing a ", or pushing Ctrl+Enter with cursor next to a ".
2. Run "Defold: Index game files for autocompletion" when you need to refresh the autocompletion

Run "Project > Build" from VSCode

Demo

Note: requires Defold editor running in the background

Note: you can set a hotkey for this command as well as for any other command

Hot reloading after .script and .lua files are saved

Demo

Note: read about hot reloading in Defold

1. Open Defold editor
2. Run your game
3. Modify a .script file and save it, the modified file should be hot-reloaded

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Create .go + .script + .factory files from Explorer context menu

Demo

Generate manifest (reduce game bundle size)

Demo

You can generate the app manifest from Defold editor:

Or from VSCode:

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Credit

• Manifest generation code was copy pasted from Defold App Manifest generator by britzl.

Resources

• Annotations used in this extensions are generated with Defold Lua Annotations.