How To Use Signals In Godot 4

Signals changed from Godot 3, so I had to make a new video.

For the Godot Icon used in the thumbnail: Original Author of the Godot Icon (Andrea Calabró), changes were made to this icon.

0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Scene Setup
1:00 - Setting up Signals
2:22 - Setting up Custom Signals

[khlobbia]

You sound like you were held at gunpoint and told "explain the basics of signals in Godot in a clear and simple manner within 5 minutes." Great video.

[xshadx]

Basically signals are "events" triggered by actions and you "listen" to them with listeners (connect), and callables are basically "closures". I come from a web background in JS :)

[tristangillis]

I've seen like eight different videos about signals, and this is the first one that actually explains what the callables are. THANK YOU.

[TheFilipFonky]

Thanks. All the other tutorials have a lot of "let's make a billion unrelated things and then there's a signal in the middle, watch out for that" bs

[slephy]

Finally a no-fluff explanation with practical examples and an avoidance of standardized naming conventions. Thank you!

[mr_sauce_cooks]

Hey thank! This by far the most coherent tutorial others just keep talking about built-in one and rarely give any examples for costume signals

[Magikarpexe]

i was struggling on trying to connect a signal for ~5 hours and this one 4 minute vid taught me more than any website i could find lol

[NoviceScape]

The intensity of this video matched my frustration with understanding signals. Thank you, you explained some very basic things about signals that a lot of videos miss out on, a lot of videos.... I watched.... for hours....not understanding....

[QuasiGame]

You are my favourite because you show where things matter and don't matter in a very simple and clear way, thank you so much!

[jonathonhowe]

the haste and almost panic in your voice made this way more entertaining than expected

[CyricRO]

Fast, informative, straight to the point. Thank you!

[randomnumbers]

So far you're the only channel which explains this the right way it should be used: via the code and not through the editor.

[joenamredla]

This was explained with the haste and franticness of those guys in disaster movies that predict the disaster way early but no one believes them. Very informative though.

[calebernst]

Thank you! You have no clue how many hours I've been trial-and-erroring signals until this video

[giraffesareburning]

I want all tutorials to be like this - explaining a single concept succinctly with a barebones example that is easy to replicate.

[GrnMaster]

"ogabooga" is the best example I could've asked for.

[finnja]

after an hour or so this is the only video that worked. Thanks!

[Slipy]

Wow, you actually got through to me after about a dozen videos explaining signals. I think you naming them silly things actually helped, cause naming them something useful in tutorials makes me feel like that custom name is supposed to mean something X)

[kevinw]

Dude great video one of the very few that explains it simply and clearly

[vegasdealer]

I watched somebody else's signal video that was 2 years old. I kept getting errors. It wasn't Godot 4. Duh. After watching your video, it's all good now! Thanks!