Can you dynamically load resources?

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#1

Is there any way to load resources dynamically? I’ve been using GDevelop 5 for a few months and i’ve been loving it so far, but i’d like to add some modding support to the game i’m making and i want to know if there is any way to dynamically load resources.
I want to load images and sounds, save them as variable or any way and run them.

Also, is there any way to run a sound through a string? I can do that with images and assigning each animation of an object to a custom name, but apparently there’s no way to do that with sound?

#2

Hi,
Perhaps you’re looking for “create an object from its name”. It allows you to use variables, strings, concatenation, etc.
“save an image as a variable” doesn’t make sense to me.
I don’t understand the “run a sound through a string” either.

Can you explain differently or write examples of the events you’d like?

#3

Hello Gruk! Sorry about the confusion, i suck at explaining things and i noticed i wrote a few things wrong.

I meant save an sprite into a variable, but one that isn’t within the game already, for example:

Player decides to make a mod, he writes a .JSON file containing the sprites name, variables and sound names that should be loaded into the game, he creates a folder with those sprites and sounds. I can create a interpreter to load these variables, however i didn’t find a way for GDevelop 5 to dynamically load the sprite or sound.

What i meant with “run a sound through a string” is:

We have the “Change Animation (by name)” in Gdevelop, which we can give name to our animation within objects and call them through a string.

This way my game is able to collect the animation name from a .JSON file, store it into a scene variable and the game will change a object animation to that string. Which allow me to directly name the animation into the JSON and call it with a single code:

“Set animation of EventImage to VariableString(image)”

However i can’t name each sound i have and i can’t call them into a event by a string, the way i’m doing right now is like this:

"The text of scene variable audio.sound is = “sound1"” > “Play the sound sound1.wav on the channel 0, vol.: 100, loop: yes”

Which is quite inefficient because there’s many sounds and i will be adding more.

#4

So you would like the player to be allowed to upload a zip file containing a folder with resources to run the game? Nah, I doubt you can do that, for many reasons.

Regarding sound, no, you can’t use expressions / variables on the filenames yet. You can vote for it here: Trello

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#5

It would be nice to use local images for example feom the phone camera or gallery

#6

Thanks for the answer Gruk!

It don’t have to be a zip file, but yes. The main idea was to add mod support to the game.

Oh that’s a shame, i could do it in Gamemaker but since i’ve migrated to ubuntu and i don’t have the money to upgrade to gamemaker 2, i can’t use it anymore.

I will work around it, if any day it become a real necessity to add it i will take a look in learning javascript and doing a plugin for gdevelop.

#7

i think you can load resources from internet and you can use JavaScript

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#9

I don’t know if this what you was referring to but here is the answer for me with my problem the solution i found:

gdevelop github I found out how via code but I aim to take full advantage of how the developers attended for gdevelopers to be used (no code) and how I will push it to do more with how i attend to use it (with code) and i love the aim the developers are taking with the “THIS A NO CODE GA ME ENGINE” cause it’s even showing even more how powerful the underline language that is built of is.

#10

Hello!

I’m glad you found an answer to your own question. However please don’t bump multi-year old threads, especially since you have your own thread that you also posted your question and answer too. Thank you!

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