Version 1.0 of the Inventory System is now available. It includes a few new additions since the closed beta:
Audio Themes
A toolbar button to auto-stack items
Support added for partial item stacking
Transferring items now takes the search filter into account
Lots of fixes found their way into this release as well:
Addresses several issues with expiring items related to inventory resizing
Drag-and-drop now handles expired items
Drag-and-drop preview z-index set to max
When building the UI, the InventorySlotUI nodes have a consistent naming convention
The GGFocusControl class uses grab_click_focus()
Corrected node type in the GGTour class
Inventory grid scroll container follows focus
Inventory sort strategy method format changes
Addresses an issue with refreshing last item slot
Snappier inventory item consumption
Web export compatibility improvements
The Inventory System Deep Dive and Architecture Guide helps game developers implement advanced multiplayer inventories using Godot Engine. The PDF Guide contains over 500 pages of code walkthroughs, diagrams, and explains concepts related to inventories, items, and more.
This release addresses an issue that arose due to Godot 4.4 changes in how JSON is deserialized. Relevant Godot issues: #103374 and #61464. Makes sense why it was changed, but it might impact anyone unaware who’s consuming a JSON-based API, and wondering why responses may not be as expected. In addition, this release now includes character damage and …
Arguably, more fun than writing code is removing code. I was assembling a split-screen multiplayer UI. The goal behavior is to show/hide the appropriate displays for the players, depending on how many players there are. Initially, the code to update the UI was very simple, because I started with two players. In that case, you …
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:
Inventory System v1.0 available
Version 1.0 of the Inventory System is now available. It includes a few new additions since the closed beta:
Lots of fixes found their way into this release as well:
The Inventory System Deep Dive and Architecture Guide helps game developers implement advanced multiplayer inventories using Godot Engine. The PDF Guide contains over 500 pages of code walkthroughs, diagrams, and explains concepts related to inventories, items, and more.
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