Defold Examples

These are per-example files generated for LLM usage.

Animation

• Animation State Machine - This example demonstrates how to create a character animation system using a Finite State Machine (FSM) with smooth transitions between different character states
• Cursor animation - This example shows how to set and animate the normalized cursor value
• Easing functions (tweens) - This example demonstrates different easing functions available in Defold
• Euler Rotation - This example shows how to animate the rotation of a game object using the euler game object property
• Flipbook animation - This example shows how to use a flipbook animation in a sprite
• Spine animation - This example shows Spine bone animation that blends when animation switches
• Spinner animation - This example shows how a game object is rotated in discrete steps, matching the graphics of the progress spinner
• Tween animation - This example shows how to tween animate the position of a game object
• Tween animations chain - This example shows how to chain two tween animations of the position of a game object

Basics

• Message passing - This example shows how to communicate between two script components in two separate game objects
• Parent/child - This example shows how to child a game object to a parent
• Random numbers - This example shows how to generate pseudo-random numbers in Defold using built-in math API
• Z-order - This example shows how to put sprites in front and behind of eachother

Collection

• Proxy - This example shows how to use collection proxies to load and unload collections
• Splash - This example shows how to use collection proxies to show a splash screen while loading a game menu
• Time-step - This example shows how to speed up or slow down animations in a collection proxy by changing the time step of the collection proxy

Debug

• Physics debug - This example allows you to toggle physics debug visualization as well as changing the time step so the simulation runs at one tenth of the speed
• Visual profiler - This example shows the on-screen profiler

Factory

• Dynamic factories - This example shows how to change the prototype game object used by a factory component
• Shoot bullets - This example shows how to dynamically spawn bullet game objects using a factory component
• Spawn enemies with central management - This example shows how to spawn enemy game objects using a factory component and use a central manager to control movement and behavior of all enemies
• Spawn enemies with script properties - This example shows how to spawn enemy game objects using a factory component with different properties
• Spawn game object - This example shows how to dynamically spawn game objects with a factory component

File

• Load JSON data - This example shows how to load json data using sys
• Save and Load - This example shows how to save and load data using sys

Gui

• Button - A GUI box node with an image texture and a script to make it act as a button
• Drag - This example shows how to drag a GUI box node
• Get and set a gui font resource - This example shows how to get and set a font resource on a gui component
• Get and set a gui material resource - This example shows how to get and set a material resource on a gui component
• Get and set a gui texture resource - This example shows how to get and set a texture resource on a gui component
• GUI color - This example shows how change the color of GUI nodes at run-time
• GUI progress indicators - This example shows how to create various types of progress indicators
• Health Bar - This example demonstrates how to add different health bars
• Layouts - This example demonstrates the use of layouts
• Load texture - This example shows how to load and set a dynamic texture on a gui box node
• Localization (RTL/LTR) - This example demonstrates how to handle localization in games, Unicode text layout, RTL rendering, and runtime font switching for localization
• Pointer over - A GUI box node with an image texture and a script that react when pointer over this node
• Slice-9 - This example demonstrates slice-9 scaling gui box node
• Stencil - A GUI box node with “Clipping mode” set to “STENCIL”

Input

• 8 ways movement - A very simple 8 ways movement setup with a single game object and a script that listens to input and updates the game object position accordingly
• Down duration - Listens to input trigger “touch” and count mouse down duration in update method
• Entity Picking - This example demonstrates how to pick a game object from the 3D scene
• Mouse and touch events - Shows how to read mouse/touch movement and mouse/touch button state
• Text input - Listens to text input trigger “type” and modifies the game object label with the alien’s speech according to input

Material

• Billboarding - This example shows how to make sprites and particle sprites face the camera using a custom vertex shader
• Custom Sprite - This example demonstrates a simple way to create and apply a custom sprite shader for changing colors and customizing an outline
• Noise shader - This example shows how to use a noise function to generate clouds, smoke or similar effect using a shader
• Repeating Background - Create a scrolling background using a repeating texture on a model quad
• Screenspace - This example shows how to create a custom material with two textures that blend together to create a pattern effect using screen space coordinates
• Sprite local UV - This example shows how to get local UV coordinates of a sprite regardless of sprite size
• Sprite Vertex Color Attribute - This example shows how to set and animate a vertex attribute
• Unlit - This example demonstrates how to create and apply an custom non-lit material to a 3D model
• UV Gradient - This example shows how to apply a basic shader to a full screen quad

Mesh

• Mesh - This example shows how to create a basic mesh component in the shape of a triangle
• Textured Mesh - This example shows how to create a textured mesh component in the shape of a rectangle

Model

• AABB - This example demonstrates how to use the `model
• Character - This example shows how to view and play skeletal animations on a glTF model
• Cubemap Reflection - This example shows how to use a cubemap to draw environment reflections on a model
• GLTF - This example demonstrates how to use a glTF model
• GPU Skinning - This example demonstrates GPU skinning
• Model Vertex Color - This example demonstrates how to apply a vertex color shader using exported attributes from a 3D model
• Skybox - This example shows how to create a skybox using a cubemap texture

Movement

• First-person 3D camera and movement - Control a first-person camera using WASD and mouse to look with cursor lock
• Follow input - This example shows how to make a game object continuously follow the mouse
• Look at - This example shows how to rotate a game object to look at the mouse cursor
• Look rotation - This example shows how to rotate a game object to look at the object in 3D space
• Move forward - This example shows how to move a game object in the direction it is rotated/facing
• Move to target - This example shows how to make a game object move to the position the user clicks
• Movement speed - This example shows how to move a game object with accelerating speed
• Moving game object - This example shows how to move a game object

Particles

• Modifiers - This example shows particle effect modifiers
• Particle effect - This example shows a simple particle effect
• Particle Effect Emission Space - This example demonstrates the difference between local and world particle emission spaces
• Particle effect example - confetti - This example shows a simple particle effect to imitate confetti
• Particle effect example - fire and smoke - This example shows a simple particle effect for imitating fire and smoke
• Particle effect example - fireworks - This example shows a fireworks effect made with particles
• ParticleFX emitter properties - This example shows how to get and set ParticleFX emitter image, animation, and material at runtime

Physics

• Apply force - This example demonstrates how to apply directional force to all dynamic blocks on touch/click and draws debug direction lines
• Dynamic physics - This example shows a simple setup with dynamic physics objects
• Fixed timestep interpolation - This example shows how to smooth physics motion in fixed update mode by interpolating a visual sprite while keeping the physics body fixed-step
• Hinge joint physics - This example shows a simple setup with a dynamic body physics object and two dynamic wheel physics object joined together with a joint of type “hinge”
• Kinematic physics - This example shows a simple setup with a kinematic physics objects
• Knockback - This example shows how to create a knockback effect when hit
• Pendulum physics - This example shows a simple setup with a static pivot and two dynamic weights - physics objects joined together with a joint of type “fixed” and “spring”
• Raycast - This example shows how to use physics raycasts to detect collisions along a straight line from a start point to an end point
• Trigger - This example shows how a physics trigger is used to trigger an event

Render

• Camera - This example shows how to use a camera component and have it follow a game object
• Orbit Camera - This example demonstrates how to create script to control a 3D camera with the mouse
• Orthographic Zoom - This example shows how to zoom an orthographic camera in and out by changing Orthographic Zoom while the camera is in Fixed mode
• Post-processing - This example shows how to apply a post-processing effect by drawing to a render target and then to a fullscreen quad using a post processing shader
• Screen to World - This example shows how to convert from screen to world coordinates while using a camera
• World to Screen - This example demonstrates how to convert 3D world coordinates to 2D screen coordinates using camera transformations

Resource

• Create atlas - This example shows how to create an atlas with two images and use it on a sprite and in a gui
• Modify atlas - This example shows how to replace an image in an atlas

Sound

• Fade In-Out - This example shows how to make Fade-In and fade Fade-Out music
• Get and set sound - This example shows how to change which sound a sound component plays
• Music - This example shows how to play a piece of music, stored as an
• Panning - This example demonstrates how to pan a sound effect according to a GO’s(game object) position on the screen

Sprite

• Bunnymark - This is a performance test for sprites
• Change sprite image - This example shows how to change the image of a sprite
• Flip - This example demonstrates flipping a sprite animation vertically and horizontally
• Multiple Sprite Samplers - This example shows how to sample from more than one image when drawing a sprite
• Sprite cursor - This example shows how to use the sprite animation cursor and frame count to manually select a specific frame
• Sprite size - This example shows how to get the size of a sprite at run-time
• Sprite tint - This example shows how tint a sprite at run-time
• Texture scrolling - This example shows how scroll the texture in the runtime using Texture Transform 2D Vertex Attribute, without using the sprite in the world space

Tilemap

• Get and set tiles - This example shows how to get and set tiles of a tilemap
• Tilemap collisions - This example shows how to detect collisions on tilemaps

Timer

• Cancel timer example - This example shows how to create timer and cancel it anytime, using built-in timer API
• Repeating timer example - This example shows how to create timer that repeats endlessly every second
• Trigger timer example - This example shows how to create timer that triggers counting every 1s and can be triggered manually and asynchronously as a reaction to user input