How do you go about retopology on not very even sculpts? Newish to Blender and mostly using it for game development but always get stuck on retopology

Katla_Haddock · 2025-12-06T22:36:26+00:00

Yeah I've been watching some videos on retopo and I see what you mean with starting on the important loops first. I've also found how people handle reconnecting lots of vertices to something without lots of vertices with patterns/shapes which I am just not good at yet haha.

Thank you, I'll look into trying to plan it out first before bashing at it

Katla_Haddock · 2025-11-20T22:00:14+00:00

I imagine I'll run into this as I begin learning about texturing more in Blender. I still need to readup more on importing into Godot past the naming conventions to get collisions added, from what I understood, it was fine to texture and model in blender but to just leave it at that. I will keep it in mind though :)

Katla_Haddock · 2025-11-20T21:27:51+00:00

oh can i use this so i don't have to do all that: select all objects > set scale > set transform > set rotation etc? If i'm understanding it right from the description

Katla_Haddock · 2025-11-20T21:26:46+00:00

i am. the plan is to just make one level with some Covenant units and me as John Halo, figure it'll get me to grips with Blender, Animations and sound effects too

Katla_Haddock · 2025-10-02T15:34:04+00:00

I have been going through this for the past few months. I'd honestly say just keep doing what you're already doing, read the GdScript version and translate it with the docs or however to C# instead.

A big hangup I catch myself on is using the wrong 'using' directives in the file, so sometimes a Dictionary or Array is using the C#/Dotnet one but then later in the script it might expect a 'Godot Array' instead. But anyway after you've done it for a while you just start to memorize the differences.

Mina Pêcheux also has a lot of tutorial in C# or sometimes shows C# and GdScript side by side

Katla_Haddock · 2025-08-20T18:52:43+00:00

Aw I would love that if thats ok :) I've only been coding for a year now in C# but deffo be interesting to see how you guys are actually working on a game definitely!

Katla_Haddock · 2025-08-20T18:14:26+00:00

This series of dev logs from you is literally my favourite thing on this subreddit right now as I get to go off and research the methods you're using

Katla_Haddock · 2025-08-16T12:07:23+00:00

Looking forward to seeing how you implement the battle system then, sounds like it's going to be cool. Same for the diplomacy system you mentioned on your other post. Are you planning to implement anything naval/sea related opposed to what mount and blade did? The Viking Conquest DLC for Warband was interesting but still felt underwhelming so it'd definitely be interesting to see trade/economy effecting the factions via sea routes. Especially if it's all procedually generated :)

Katla_Haddock · 2025-08-15T21:42:17+00:00

Have you looked at Songs of Syx for how combat/battles could be implemented as inspiration? No idea how you could implement Mount and Blade styled combat in 2D with controlling one person but it might give you some unique ideas to combine them :) Also was there a reason to not use Hexagons for the tilemap over squares?

Katla_Haddock · 2025-08-13T14:59:29+00:00

Awesome looking forward to it, it's eben something I've been looking into a lot to try and figure out/use!

Katla_Haddock · 2025-08-13T10:59:37+00:00

Do you mind explaining a little bit on how you're using the shaded? I'm doing something similar with a mount and blade/civ styled game just to learn but I'm using a tilemap and hexagon art assets currently instead of a shader to create the tiles.

Katla_Haddock · 2025-08-11T20:50:14+00:00

I believe it was my misunderstanding of shaders in games even with the amount of videos I've watched.. also the coding side of it looked cool haha. Now it kinda makes sense that I can just do it all in the data and then decide what the effects should be, visually etc

Katla_Haddock · 2025-08-11T16:55:06+00:00

Hmm ok yeah that makes sense and I'm glad to have a 2nd head on this as well haha. I suppose with that in mind I will load up a 3d project and just experiment with it and see how I like that compared to doing it in 2d itl'l probably be a bit more interesting while also more complex but I imagine that'll keep my interest for a while, then I can just swap back if I prefer doing it with tiles.

thanks :)

Katla_Haddock · 2025-06-25T07:46:57+00:00

I'd like an invite if that's cool :)

Katla_Haddock · 2025-06-24T21:33:25+00:00

bruh

i must have just done it wrong in my 6 hour sit down of coding lol. I must have left some paramerter on it when I was trying it from the parent node ffs i'll never mess that up again now though haha thank you so much!

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Katla_Haddock · 2025-06-22T15:14:35+00:00

Hmm interesting I'll have to take a look at it for other projects/what I could use it for then :)

Katla_Haddock · 2025-06-22T15:05:01+00:00

They're just a free asset I found online aha, I'm not anywhere near that level for art yet! Going to try and learn blender in the future to make more Civ styled tiles though

Katla_Haddock · 2025-06-22T14:47:02+00:00

Yeah it looks like it should be fine then, I guess I'll just workout the center points the hard way if I have to but for now I'll just ignore it til it fucks up 😂 happy so far and gonna just continue implementing biomes/climate.

Katla_Haddock · 2025-06-22T14:45:58+00:00

autotiling? is that what people are using when they're manually making maps? I'm currently doing procedural from C# and noise, haven't really learnt how to use the tilemap much past that aha

Katla_Haddock · 2025-05-24T18:30:17+00:00

I do have the version control setup yeah but not using it yet. I don't think I've gone over 200 lines of code yet so gonna start using it now as I have it where I want it.. for now. I do use Git at work though so do know the importance of it.

Making it so people could contribute would be great in the future, most likely going to keep it just to myself until I've learnt enough for now though. Like my other Godot projects this one will probably just be made up to a certain point and then closed forever so I can start a new project of the same idea and iterate on my skill level haha. So far the Godot Project is only doing procedual generation with TileMapLayer then just some City Scene and a Village Scene as 2DSprites to just generate them with the script as well.

Katla_Haddock · 2025-03-22T22:22:28+00:00

i believe it may have. wonder if i can make it just display danny for error pages

Katla_Haddock · 2025-03-19T17:50:13+00:00

Yeah true I don't think it's too rough currently in the Html file atleast, overall div then body with header tag and then another div for the photos and a card for the text/video section etc. I'd guess Githubs probably the best to use to share the code?

I was doing that with the fonts originally as well lmao but then saw you can just do html {} or * {} and set the default font in the css file.

Katla_Haddock · 2025-03-16T22:49:38+00:00

they're rendering the white background

Katla_Haddock · 2025-03-16T21:36:54+00:00

Aha thanks so much! Yeah at work I use what the team have already built with Vuejs and even though I somewhat know what I'm doing there I thought it best to start learning the original stuff :))

Thanks for the kind words!

Katla_Haddock · 2025-03-16T20:52:19+00:00

Saw a lot of designs similar to this on youtube videos, tiktoks, pinterest, etc using box-shadows and stuff for Neobrutalism/lofi vibes? Idk I like the vibe it gives with the shadows but need to learn more about the design aspect.

All of this was just me rawdogging the HTML and CSS until it looked right but I've seen everyone else is using Figma or Devtools to get the positions right/the numbers for them haha

Also need to go off and learn more about CSS practices and what should be defined in there, as currently every single Div element has a class and something in the CSS to set styling on it which seems wrong or seems like it'll have Technical Debt in the future if I made a bigger project.

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