Godot Engine 4 has a bug (#50824) that causes particle jitter when the game is paused. It does look quite distracting. The Bug in Action This is a proof-of-concept wave shooter running in Godot Engine 4.0.2. Pausing the game was initially just a simple process_mode toggle. But as shown in the video clip above, there …
Years ago I purchased a game dev bundle on HumbleBundle. Part of that was a sound library called Pro Sound Collection. It’s pretty comprehensive, whether RPG or FPS, there are sounds for a ton of use cases. I might as well use them for something. Luckily for me, the sound collection is pretty well organized. …
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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