Defold Buddy

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

Features

IntelliSense for Defold API

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

IntelliSense for project dependencies

Autocompletion for Defold URLs in .script files

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

Known issues: The suggestions do not refresh 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 (requires Defold editor opened in background)

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

Hot reloading when .script and .lua files are saved

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

Generate manifest (reduce game bundle size)

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.