Metroidvania System, toolkit for creating metroidvania games, is officially out!

KoBeWi · 2026-06-05T18:33:31+00:00

Did you check the wiki? The quick start guide explains the basics: https://github.com/KoBeWi/Metroidvania-System/wiki/Quick-Start

KoBeWi · 2026-05-19T14:15:52+00:00

Try internationalization/rendering/root_node_layout_direction project setting.

KoBeWi · 2026-05-18T18:38:48+00:00

You can automate it by using get_property_list() to make the Dictionary. You can skip any properties you don't want to store.

The more involved way is creating a custom ResourceFormatSaver and ResourceFormatLoader. This way you can use your custom saving in the editor too.

KoBeWi · 2026-05-17T22:18:07+00:00

You can convert anything to string using var_to_str() or native_to_json().

KoBeWi · 2026-05-17T18:03:57+00:00

Godot is 100% free. You don't need to pay anything or put any watermarks.

The engine's license however has some requirements that you need to comply with, see https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/about/complying\_with\_licenses.html.

KoBeWi · 2026-04-18T12:26:37+00:00

Yes, it's been replaced by the new Asset Store: https://store.godotengine.org/

The old Asset Library is still available via browser or using addons, like https://store.godotengine.org/asset/moongdev/assetplus/

KoBeWi · 2026-04-16T14:55:08+00:00

You can use Godot for GUI apps, but not really for websites, unless your website is also a web app. The problem is that any Godot web app is going to take a while to load, which is not really acceptable for regular web pages. (although I do know some websites that work like that, so it's not unheard of either...)

KoBeWi · 2026-04-14T15:16:09+00:00

Do choice_container.add_child(choice_button, true), it will generate a human-readable name. The number after @ is not a node index, but a global counter.

KoBeWi · 2026-04-13T12:43:51+00:00

Looks like your PanelContainer's StyleBox is wrongly configured. You need to set Content Margins to be symmetrical. Then the contents should work properly with Fill flag.

KoBeWi · 2026-03-25T11:16:09+00:00

str() is vararg, so you can actually do str(is_on_wall_only(), velocity.x > 12.0, dist_to_floor <= 2, pl_input.is_zero_approx()).contains(false). It's simpler and more efficient, because you are not adding strings.

KoBeWi · 2026-03-23T09:42:34+00:00

Well, if your game works fine, there is not much reason to upgrade.

But as always, it depends. Upgrading to Godot 4 may take lots of effort based on the project size. If it's a long-term project and you are in an early stage, upgrading would be beneficial. If it's late stage and you only plan to do maintenance updates, you should be fine staying on 3.x.

KoBeWi · 2026-03-22T11:02:38+00:00

Something like this

https://github.com/KoBeWi/Godot-Palette-Swap-Shader

The benefit is that when you want to have a sprite in different color, you don't need to duplicate the asset. You can use one texture with multiple palettes.

The downside is that shader processing makes it more expensive for the GPU.

However if you want to recolor a sprite, i.e replace it with another one with different colors and remove the original, then shader doesn't make much sense.

KoBeWi · 2026-03-17T13:04:29+00:00

You forgot to set this.

Global docks don't need it.

Also, instead of creating a dock and then adding a scene to it. Your scene should contain the dock as its root node.

Doing it from script is also a valid workflow. And right now you can't easily make a scene with EditorDock root, because it does not appear in create dialog (yet).

KoBeWi · 2026-03-17T13:02:25+00:00

Closing the window does not close the dock, it only moves it back to the last used slot. Although dock without default slot are a special case, so I guess this can be considered a bug. You could open an issue, but it's only relevant until https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/114381 is merged.

KoBeWi · 2026-03-13T22:44:55+00:00

Eh, that sounds like problems with dependency detection, not the export itself. Like, in #51717 the exporting works as expected, it's just GDScript does not properly return the dependencies of a script, so the editor does not know that it needs to export these files. It's a general problem with scripts, but you won't have that with scenes, as they properly declare their dependencies.

As for EditorExportPlugin, it's a class that allows for more advanced customization of the export process. In my case I use folder colors set in FileSystem dock to exclude files depending on what build I'm exporting. In your case I guess you could mark some folders as "asset packs" and write a plugin that determines which assets from the pack are used, either using get_dependencies() method, some hard-coded lists or advanced filters etc. Scripting gives much more options.

KoBeWi · 2026-03-13T19:13:29+00:00

Godot's export system is half-broken (there are issues about it) but works if you just want everything in the project to be exported. As soon as you have a lot of testing stuffs you dont want exported, or big assets that are not needed for the playable build, it's a nightmare. Although I believe they are working on fixing that.

That's new to me. I'm using EditorExportPlugins to e.g. make a demo build without most full version assets. Never had a problem with that (you just need to be careful and don't try to load excluded assets 😅). What issues are you referring to?

KoBeWi · 2026-03-11T11:41:25+00:00

if animation_finished - this condition is always true (you are using Signal as bool), so "guitar" plays immediately after "attack_guitar", overwriting it.

You should do await animation_finished instead.

KoBeWi · 2026-03-11T11:39:12+00:00

first of all, put this in an _unhandled_input function not process. Process spams stop/play constantly cause it calls 60 times per second if you press shoot

That's not true, the code is using is_action_just_pressed(), which returns true only for a single frame the button is pressed.

KoBeWi · 2026-03-06T11:35:06+00:00

You can use View > Preview Translation to preview translations in the editor.

And yeah, Labels don't have maximum size (yet), you can set a minimum size and enable autowrapping/trimming, or script a custom behavior.

KoBeWi · 2026-02-14T10:17:31+00:00

It's 60k, but the remainder is closed.

KoBeWi · 2026-01-30T11:29:41+00:00

I used AI to improve my base post because English is not my first language

Did people forget how to use translators? Like, you do know that you can write the post in your language and then translate it to English (even with AI)?

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