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Hi @mvaligursky
I don’t know if this is related to the new 1.69 release but we’re now experiencing an error when forking a project
‘settings.preferWebGpu: should be a bool’
Best regards
Luca
We’re investigating, thanks!
We have deployed a hotfix that has resolved the issue.
Thanks, i confirm it’s working again
Hey team, congrats on another amazing release. However I can’t install it via npm it can’t seem to download for some reason (1.68.2 is fine but 1.69.0
oly-web-client git:(feat/playcanvas-168) ✗ yarn add playcanvas
➤ YN0000: ┌ Resolution step
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@npm:1.69.0 can't be found in the cache and will be fetched from the remote r
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40npm%3A1.69.0 can't be found in th
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40npm%3A1.69.0 can't be found in the cache and
➤ YN0000: ⠼ playcanvas@file:.::locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dplaycanvas%2540n➤ YN0000: ⠴ playcanvas@file:.::locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dplaycanvas%2540n
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dp
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40npm%3A1.69.0 can't be found in the cache and
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40npm%3A1.69.0 can't be found in the cache and
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dp
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dp
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dp
➤ YN0013: │ playcanvas@file:.#.::hash=4ca705&locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dp
➤ YN0000: ⠇ playcanvas@file:.::locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dplaycanvas%2540f
➤ YN0000: ⠇ playcanvas@file:.::locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dplaycanvas%2540file%253A.%2523.%253A%253Ahash%253D4ca705%2526locator%253Dplaycanvas%252540file%25253A.%252523.%25253A%25253Ahash➤ YN0000: ⠏ playcanvas@file:.::locator=playcanvas%40file%3A.%23.%3A%3Ahash%3D4ca705%26locator%3Dplaycanvas%2540file%253A.%2523.%253A%253Ahash%253D4ca705%2526locator%253Dplaycanvas%252540file%25253A.%252523.%25253A%25253Ahash%25253D4ca705%252526locator%25253Dplaycanvas%25252540npm%2525253A1.69.0
Hey @Adrian_Meredith thanks for flagging this! I can’t seem to replicate when starting from a new project. What are the steps your running through to get this? I’m assuming it’s an existing code base?
weird, never seen anything like it before. but steps are as above, yarn add playcanvas. doing remove then yarn add playcanvas@1.58.2 and its all good. will try cleaning the cache and seeing if that helps
It could be a caching issue, although for various reasons we have introduced this in the deps which looks like a similar pathing issue to your error
The engine has been patched to Release v1.69.1 · playcanvas/engine · GitHub
@Adrian_Meredith - please see if this solves it for you, thanks.
No change unfortunately. that file:. entry is very suspicious though…
Just FYI @Adrian_Meredith, it seems this is related to Node v16 and below, which can’t the dependancy
I’m currently using v21.1.0. The symptoms match the description of that entry in dependencies, its not just not finding it, its stuck in recursive loop as a package called playcanvas depends on a package called playcanvas. What is it there for?
What version of yarn are you using?
1.22.19
Patched to Release v1.69.2 · playcanvas/engine · GitHub
Please test again @Adrian_Meredith
Legends, all good now. Thanks
1.69.2 release is now the default one in the editor.
Due to some unrelated issues this was reverted, but will be deployed when the problems are solved in the next few days.