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 …
I’m wrapping up development on version 1 of the Inventory System, which is currently at v1.18.1. All core functionality is in place, and it provides many quality-of-life features. The guide covers and walks through most of the code base, and the demo projects show off a lot of use cases. This first version has been …
A little while ago, I created a type of AudioManager to make it easier to work with sound files in bulk: Rather than assigning audio streams by hand, I was doing it programmatically; reading the contents of a directory and using load() to get the resources. It worked great and saved a lot of time …
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 …
Super Godot Galaxy Concept
Hugo-Dz created Super Godot Galaxy: https://github.com/Hugo-Dz/super-godot-galaxy, which he announced in this Reddit post.
It uses the 3D Starter Kit from Kenney and shows how to achieve the effect of applying gravity toward the center of a small spherical planet.
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