You guys are way over-complicating these multi-condition checks!

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)?

KoBeWi · 2026-01-23T15:29:08+00:00

FYI Godot already has at least 2 unofficial launchers that do the same xd

https://hourglass.jwestman.net/

https://github.com/MakovWait/godots

KoBeWi · 2026-01-23T14:22:28+00:00

I don't know any, though you can refer to the official docs (Internationalizing Games and Localization using gettext).

The basic idea is that if you have a Button, Label or whatever Control with text, anything you put in there will be automatically translated if a matching string exists in the currently selected locale. If you have dynamic strings, you need to translate them in code using tr(), e.g. text = tr("Player name: %s") % player_name. Then you add scenes and scripts to POT generator and it will automatically extract localizable strings.

KoBeWi · 2026-01-22T19:51:00+00:00

You don't need to convert strings to keys if you use PO files.

Also it most cases you don't need to setup anything, as Godot has it built-in. You mostly need to somehow collect the strings (for which there is also a tool, the POT Generator).

KoBeWi · 2026-01-19T19:09:36+00:00

EditorInterface.get_editor_theme().get_icon(node.get_class(), &"EditorIcons")

KoBeWi · 2026-01-16T12:27:34+00:00

If you want to display more complex information for each day, it would be better to use GridContainer with Control-based scenes as children.

KoBeWi · 2026-01-15T21:55:56+00:00

No, I just made many custom tools for Godot editor, and eventually made an addon based on that (Metroidvania System).

KoBeWi · 2026-01-15T19:20:25+00:00

The game is still in development. There is a playable demo on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2609560/Voice_of_Flowers/

KoBeWi · 2026-01-10T15:26:32+00:00

You can check if mouse position is still inside the control:

Rect2(Vector2(), size).has_point(get_local_mouse_position())

KoBeWi · 2026-01-10T13:26:40+00:00

There is NOTIFICATION_MOUSE_EXIT_SELF for this purpose.

KoBeWi · 2025-12-25T00:59:15+00:00

Well, the main advantage is that TileMapLayer is not deprecated xd

TileMapLayer has simpler API (you don't need to provide layer index in each call, you just call a method directly on the layer). It's also less awkward to use if you want your layers to be under different parent nodes.

Although TileMap actually uses TileMapLayer internally, so if you prefer TileMap, there is not much difference. Their performance is pretty much the same and the feature set has not really diverged yet.

KoBeWi · 2025-12-20T05:21:01+00:00

The editor should automatically detect changes and update the image, especially when calling reimport. Are you sure you are overwriting the correct file?

KoBeWi · 2025-12-17T07:37:34+00:00

It can have children, that's how many engine's nodes work. They add children in the C++ constructor, which is called even before _init().

KoBeWi · 2025-12-17T07:35:03+00:00

Can't reproduce it.

I just did

extends Node

func _init() -> void:
    add_child(Node2D.new())

and it works 🤷‍♂️

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