10+4 Tricks We Wish We Knew Earlier | Godot Engine

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0:00 Welcome
0:22 Screenshots
0:56 Filepaths in Script
1:08 Scatter
1:29 Text Effects
1:55 Serialization
2:30 Empty 3D Shapes
2:55 Mouse Filter
3:47 Disable Script Template
4:07 Texture Artifacts
4:36 Animate Colors
5:05 Edit Curves Precisely
5:27 Modulo for Floats
5:45 OS calls
6:02 Convenient Vector Functions
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The Show Must Be Go by Kevin MacLeod

[PlayWithFurcifer]

We now brought you exactly 60 things about Godot - you want more? Leave your own tricks so we can feature them next time!

[affensind]

Didn't know you could check if you're in debug mode, that's actually really useful! Great video!
Also thanks for featuring my tip, really made my day :D

[nathanu]

When using tool scripts and setget, you will probably encounter an error when you try to access a node from within the setter. This is because setgets are usually run before the object is ready. To work around this, add this code to the setter

if not is_inside_tree():
yield(self, "ready")

[petersturgeon]

Finally! I've made it to the secret corner of the internet!

[thomasmaier]

You are the best! Making Godot fun af with this series

[emi_cpl]

As always, a really nice video :) thanks for making it!

[leonmakesgames]

Love the video guys!

I have found the OS functions for debugging so useful, so it's a great tip to share!

[PotatoMcFry]

Great sense of humor and great tips. Thank you!

[HexBlit]

Keep up the great work! There is always something new to learn :)

[collinvisser]

Not sure if you have this one - set the game to always on top (Right-mouse on window tool bar of the game ) then in godot click on pause - then click on remote - Depending on the screen size of your game you should see the remote notes and the inspector - Saw this on pigdev's channel - This is very usefully in debugging

[regent]

I just found You, and this channel is one of the channels I wish I knew earlier. :D

[Dark_Peace]

Ok the mouse filter is incredible. I have this problem all the time.

PS: I messaged you a plugin I made under you pinned comment

[VojtechLacina]

Awesome, love learning details like these, thank you

[Polygarden]

Great video! I didn't know about the mouse input thing. I can imagine this is really hard to trouble shoot, when you run into the problem suddenly.

[smorty]

Your videos are so nice to watch and have such good structure. Makes learning really easy, even when not sitting infront of an open gdscript window. Please continue making these videos.

May I ask, who makes the artwork for your thumbnails?

[lorgarmor]

- It is possible to make "Components" (like in Unity) by saving singular nodes with an attached script as scenes and compose your characters or objects from them. This is useful if a certain behaviour is a part of multiple different objects. "Scene" can be a misleading name because it can contain something abstract like a behaviour or stats.
- It is possible to save your own predefined sets of data by extending a script from Resource, use export variables and create resource files with certain values. This is very useful for storing e.g. stats for items or enemies. It works similar to Unity's Scriptable Objects.
- You can create scenes inheriting from others. They will update accordingly when the parent scene is changed but can contain their own nodes and export values of (parent-)scripts. Pretty obvious but I just used it for creating levels with the same general rules but different parameters for them.

[RHGameDev]

Nice vídeo! The first tip was my favourite, really cool!

[diegohiroshiysusvideos]

*Godot Engine is my fave tool.* A understandable video and nice for any noob speaking spanish. Regards from argentina.

[pete]

FileAccess also has put_var and get_var to serialize variants, no need for the intermediate call to serialize

[snesmocha]

i always enjoy these xd

also it would be great to make a tutorial for rich text label as they're one of the slightly less documented items in the godot documentation