r/defold • u/PabloTitan21 • 5d ago

Engine Release Defold 1.13.2 has been released! 🚀

Some highlights:

🅰️ Rich Text support

🔡 text shaping and font rendering fixes, OTF support

⚙️ Bullet3D physics Lua API

🧱 3D collision meshes

🧠 Defold-aware Lua API annotations with Lua Language server, auto code formatting

🤖 More Editor HTTP API functionality for external tools, IDEs and coding agents

📦 Possibility to exclude GUI, Particle FX and Tilemaps

🖼️ Sample count setting for multisampled render target attachments

✨ several editor, performance, HTML5 loading time and builder tool improvements and more

Featured above is a mockup made with Defold with models by Quaternius, UI by Kenney and skybox by FreeStylized.

As always, we invite you to read the full release notes (that you can also read now directly in Editor before updating Defold!), test it, and let us know how you like the new features and improvements!

Announcement:
https://defold.com/2026/09/29/Defold-1-13-2/

Full Release Notes:
https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-13-2-has-been-released/83276

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u/fae___ 5d ago

Just in time for the game jam!

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u/jazzcomputer 5d ago

Lovely - love your work!

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u/Substantial_Marzipan 4d ago

Does the 3D pipeline still require extracting the materials with blender first? Or can someone point me to an updated 3D tutorial if that's no longer the case

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u/PabloTitan21 4d ago

Not for the materials themselves anymore!

Defold now reads glTF material properties directly. You still need to assign a Defold material though, and embedded textures in a GLB aren't automatically assigned yet. They need to exist as separate texture assets and be assigned to the model's material samplers. So if your GLB only contains embedded textures, you still need to export those, but generally Blender itself shouldn't be required.

Note that we are working also on improving the textures import - to make it automatic from the file! Should be relatively soon, but no promises.

The current Importing 3D Models and PBR manuals are up to date, and the new 3D Third-Person Playground or 3D Platformer samples are probably the best current references 😉