The team made a new page to see what they're prioritizing at the moment. Neat!

Alternatives to doing this would be to right click and then hit the close button or to use the hotkey for it (defaults to ctrl + w)

Missed some days due to exams but more daily posts should be happening now

Context: The default 3D physics engine of Godot is really bad, so one of (if not the) most popular extensions for Godot was Jolt Physics, replacing the old physics engine with Jolt (which is what Horizon Forbidden West uses).

Jolt not only has way better accuracy and less bugs, it also performs better. There is no reason to use the official one compared to this.

What this means:

• Jolt is coming to Godot 4.4, it's currently not a default since it's experimental (you can switch it on in the project settings), but once it becomes stable it will be the default physics engine.

• The Godot Jolt extension will be in maintenance mode since it's now built into the engine itself.

• The old physics engine will still exist for now (probably for backwards compatibility's sake).

The wait for 4.4 continues.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23016109

Hey everyone! Let’s create a simple shader that will shake our screen or an element on the screen as if an earthquake has occurred. This could be quite useful in various platformers, right? And, in fact, it’s very easy to implement. Let’s get coding.

This is usable in any script. It checks to see if the two values differ by a very small value

Alt text: Code that says print(is_equal_approx(1, 0.99999999999)) and then the console log which has printed out true.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to tell when a tool script is rebuilt in Godot mono 4.4. When the build project button is pressed the ONLY notification that the node receives is NotificationWMFocusOut and NotificationWMFocusIn so _EnterTree/_ExitTree and _Ready are useless and never called.

My node has several RIDs that are sent to the RenderingServer and PhysicsServer3D but when the project is rebuilt there seems to be NO indication that it is being rebuilt so the node loses reference to all the RIDs (preventing me from freeing them) so they are still visible as ghost objects in the editor that don't go away until I reload project.

Has anyone figured out how to do this properly? I'm totally at a loss...

This will be available to click on if you have a web export template

Alt text: Clicking on the Remote Debug button in the top right of the Godot Editor and a menu popping up that says Run in Browser on a button, and then Start HTTP Server on a button

I have been looking for a way to move non player entities on the map. For example I want cars to move around road, a parking lot, … I found way too many options without comparaison to see pro/cons. Is there a ressource telling which option is privileged?

I saw (in 2D, but I suspect all/most have their 3D equivalent):

Are there more options?
Is my understanding of each correct or completely wrong?
What is "the best" one (in Godot 4.3)? Like is there big performance drawback for some (at 100 entities there are lags or whatever)?

Keep in mind that I want my game as little as I can to understand how Godot/game engines work (I’m a developer so that part is easy, Scenes and Nodes choice less so), I don’t really care if using experimental feature means it disappear at some point or change behavior.

Edit: Just found out the official page explaining the different methodes.
So AStar is for grid/pathing on a set of points while NavigationServer can navigate to any point on the accessible area and uses A* as an implementation detail.

=> I think for my use case A* is better suited since I want to move on roads (that look like a grid with weight being the length).

Theres similar settings for paths, navigation, and avoidance

Alt text: Hovering over the Visible Collision Shapes setting in the editor and a tooltip showing with "When this option is enabled, collision shapes and raycast nodes (for 2D and 3D) will be visible in the running project"

It is hard to get models out of Blender into Godot (correctly and without loosing half the work).

Gamedev relevant open-source projects should come together to create a new 3D interchange format. More in the GitHub discussion.

I've submitted this proposal to other open source projects as well:

• Blender: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/vZP5/?sorting=hot
• Bevy: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/16632

Up or down changes the value by 1. Up/Down plus shift being held changes it by 10. Up/Down plus ctrl changes it by 100. Up/Down plus alt changes it by 0.1

Alt text: The x value in the position variable changing by values of 1, then 10, then 100, then 0.1 from different key combinations.

This makes it so that its disconnected from the main editor and you can drag it onto other screens

Alt text: A tooltip appearing over the godot edit saying Make the Script editor floating. Appearing near the top right of the script window due to hovering over the top right button there.

Alt text: Godot editor looking at the Action on Play setting opened and showing the options Do Nothing, Open Output, Open Debugger

This is yesterdays tip but ended up falling asleep before It was posted so there will be another tip today

Hey everyone! I would say that there are never enough post-processing effects, and it’s good to have as many options as possible when deciding which would fit best for our game. This time, I’ve prepared something simple again that fits into a few lines, yet the result can be quite interesting, especially if we’re not averse to some psychedelic effects. Let’s take a look at how we can implement a simple radial blur.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22635533

Hello!

I am writing to ask for ideas from anyone of who you want to add and how they would be implemented.

There is a hobby I have of practicing my programming skills by creating open source versions of games I like to play.

For a while now, I have been really feeling the need for a GPL Super Smash Bros clone.

It would be so fun to have GNU and his family of characters (popular open source project mascots) to play as similar to how they have it in Tux Kart.

But, I am not very good with balancing and coming up with unique move sets. Could you help me out with fun ideas of what kind of fighting moves Tux and his friends might have.

If you have any special characters of your own design, then I can help after I add modding support.

The move set and control scheme will be exactly from the game this takes inspiration from (or latest version of it). This might change though, depending on what others may want.

Godot will be the game engine of course.

License will be AGPL-3.0 only! Unless there is a reason for another one.

Repository will be on codeberg.org as always

Name of Game: ??? Drop suggestions in the replies, thank you.

I am not the best developer and only really do quick prototypes, but with this information I can have a better direction of where to go. I can confidently tell you, this will not be too much of a challenge so you do not have to worry. So long as I have time to crunch, it can be made.

This posting is just for whoever may come across it so they can put their ideas out there. Development will not start immediately. I have not been able to work on anything at all recently, but will start again soon within the next few months.

I look forward to the thoughts of everyone. I very much prefer to work in Godot. Please ask as many questions as you need, I know this may not be so readable.

This makes it so you can see details about things in the scene without needing to manually swap

This makes it easier to print out multiple things at the same time without needing to do a bunch of string concatenation

Easy way you can remember it is thinking s for space and t for tab. When you want to print normally just call print. Otherwise add s for space or t for tab on the end of the function for the separators.

Changing this to the lowest value (0.01) makes suggestions always appear instantly for really quick coding

I'm continuing my tip series with some more tips (ended up stopping it before since I got busy with some projects). Will have a goal of having tips at least until the new year