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Question - IDE [ SOLVED ] - Is there anywhere to change the Android default 'Game Options'?

rIKmAN

rIKmAN

Member
I create a lot of projects, mainly to isolate certain mechanics and systems to test them and ensure sure they work as intended before integrating them into my main project.

I test mobile on Android as it's quicker to deploy to than iOS - however every time I create a new project I have to go in and manually change the Android 'Build Settings', 'Support Library', 'Target SDK', 'Minimum SDK' and 'Target SDK', and it's starting to get a bit annoying.

Is there a template file or some other place the default values are stored / read from that I can edit so I don't have to keep doing it manually every single time for each new project?

I've had a dig around some of the files and folders but didn't see anything obvious.
 
gnysek

gnysek

Member
There's no official way (yet).
You can easily break GMS this way, but in C:\ProgramData\GameMakerStudio2\Cache\runtimes\runtime-2.0.5.49\BaseProject\options you have folders for each system, and if you edit .yy files, then you can set different "default" options (compare with already saved project).

But remember, that you can easily break GMS this way (out-of-range value may make impossible to create new projects, so make a backup of files), and that you need to restore it every time that new runtime is released.
 
rIKmAN

rIKmAN

Member
gnysek said:
There's no official way (yet).
You can easily break GMS this way, but in C:\ProgramData\GameMakerStudio2\Cache\runtimes\runtime-2.0.5.49\BaseProject\options you have folders for each system, and if you edit .yy files, then you can set different "default" options (compare with already saved project).

But remember, that you can easily break GMS this way (out-of-range value may make impossible to create new projects, so make a backup of files), and that you need to restore it every time that new runtime is released.
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Awesome - changed the relevant values and it worked like a charm.
You can indeed change the defaults for all targets too.

This will save me a lot of time (cumulatively) - marked as solved!

Thanks @gnysek! :)
 
rwkay

rwkay

GameMaker Staff
GameMaker Dev.
This is exactly what the Roadmap feature for Project Inheritance is for - at the moment we have the BaseProject and all projects inherit from that, but we are aiming to allow you to create your own projects that you can inherit from (so any changes are not overwritten when a new runtime is released).

It will allow you to setup template projects for yourself which customise base features (and have common objects, scripts, sprites etc)

Russell
 
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