A smaller update. The inventory components now have custom icons to make it easier to tell them apart. This release also includes additional bug fixes:
It’s been a while, but it was worth the wait. The latest version of the Inventory System is now available, with a long list of features, improvements, fixes, and documentation. This time the focus is on multiplayer. Let’s cover the features first: Bug fixes:
Godot’s resources are quite powerful. However, modifying a resource class doesn’t automatically update any corresponding .tres files, unless you happen to edit a scene that uses that resource in some way. This doesn’t impact runtime behavior — the game still runs as expected. But it can impact version control and result in a messier diff …
The latest inventory system is now available and it focuses on multiplayer permissions. The new Access Manager component validates client requests to ensure players can’t cheat and interact with inventories they’re not supposed to be able to have access to. New features: Bug fixes:
Building UIs in Godot 4
Here’s a collection of tutorials that are helpful if you’re new to using Control and Container nodes to create UIs in Godot 4.
The Game Dev Artisan video covers creating a simple UI with a reload indicator for a simple 2D tank game:
Clear Code’s 11+ hour Ultimate Introduction to Godot 4 has a chapter on User interfaces that is pretty good (as is the rest of the video).
Godotneers’ Godot UI Basics video is quite comprehensive and covers most of there is to know in 45 minutes:
Abra’s video covers creating Godot UI themes in under 10 minutes:
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