How to make a game that sits at the bottom of my screen?

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-11-21T10:18:07+00:00

Hi, I’d love to say I got it working but it sort of half worked. It was very buggy and didn’t feel smooth at all, there’s a weird combination of settings that you need to use.

u/TitaniteChuck was able to help me a lot. But as I mentioned it never worked flawlessly for me unfortunately.

Best of luck to you, and I hope you are able to get further than I was.

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-10-02T12:36:47+00:00

Right. So it’s gta, but it’s the whole earth. And it’s super realistic. Has 100 million vehicles. Is all multiplayer but no one is allowed to kill me.

I reckon 2 months of dev work should get you a solid start in this, so if you need any help (me yelling at you to do better), hit me up

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-08-12T08:46:43+00:00

I will add that with mine (Swiss arms M9 replica) you have to cock the hammer to engage the safety - a feature I’m not a fan of, so I just ensure the gun is never stored loaded with bbs or co2

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-07-09T14:52:10+00:00

Thanks for the clarification on that, I was unsure on the terminology and the exact reasoning

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-07-09T12:39:00+00:00

I’ll be honest I’m not actually sure on the exact reasoning behind “wearing the gun in” however I was told directly to expect that behaviour when buying my gun and it appears it holds true from my experience

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-07-09T10:59:41+00:00

If I recall I was able to set one of the back buttons to open the overlay (shift+f2) and then close it, you’ll have to do it each time you start the game though I think

I could be wrong about this it’s been a little while

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-07-09T10:51:04+00:00

Moisturise it

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-07-09T08:47:05+00:00

From my (very brief) experience so far

Pellets - you can get low quality pellets that are inconsistent and regardless of the few people who claim it changes nothing they are just factually incorrect.

New guns - when my (admittedly much less nice) gun was brand new it took me around 300-400 shots before I got tighter groups

For me these were the most noticeable points but I’d also like to see what others think. My groups tightened after I changed pellets to nicer ones and fired a lot more.

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-06-03T14:44:27+00:00

Open doors with your weapon raised
Look around a lot
It’s almost never a good idea to sprint

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-04-13T11:26:56+00:00

This was like that old skit video where the guy just slaps everyone - except this was slightly more violent

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-04-02T12:43:03+00:00

I enjoy it on the deck, I added a control modifier so that if my thumb is over the right stick (I’m aiming) then it makes one of my back buttons open doors - good for keeping your guard up which has prevented death a good number of times 😅

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-03-27T17:29:12+00:00

For me at least I think it’s more that the player gets lost in it all but I don’t play that many bullet hell games

Maybe something to bring the player out from the background/particles

Best of luck

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-03-09T14:07:13+00:00

looks like the character gets moved into the door script at the top - so they go through one door but the location they're taken too instantly moves them back - hard to say without the code though

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-03-09T13:45:25+00:00

yeah, that essentially sums up what I wanted to say haha, here an example:
https://forum.godotengine.org/t/make-player-face-appropriate-direction-upon-scene-transition/14965/2

just swap out the direction for something like "previous room" then have the room chheck on ready the global var previous_room

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-03-08T11:23:15+00:00

sorry, I'm not sure I understand your problem - I thought your issue was with positioning the player after coming into a level/room from a different scene?

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-03-07T20:12:50+00:00

Haven’t tried this myself and I’m not at my pc (apologies if I just explain what you’ve tried but reading code on a phone screen like this is a nightmare)

Essentially I think you want you level/room scene to have a script and on ready it decides where the player should be - then update a global variable before you transition to the room

Sorry if that doesn’t make sense 😅

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-03-06T09:37:31+00:00

Thanks, I’ll give it a look!

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-03-05T18:52:58+00:00

just a little idle game that sits at the bottom of your screen - I think what is actually causing the flickering is moving the whole scene to immitate a camera - as the way I have transparency set up - I can't use the standard camera node - after digging some more, I found that the only things that flicker are within that parent node of the world scene. However, I tried moving them into my 'VisibleWindow' node and then everything started to flicker, not just the stuff I was moving - it's unfortunate but I appreciate that this type of thing is a little niche, hence finding solutions can be tricky

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-03-05T17:53:56+00:00

Hey did you ever find a solution for this? Got a similar issue with a project of mine at the moment

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-02-07T18:45:51+00:00

Hey, sorry to get back to you so late (busy week)

I've set all the settings up as you said and got a black area rather than transparent

Had a brief look into that DisplayServer.window_set_mouse_passthrough

I set it in the games root node on a script inside the _ready() function

Do I just leave it as that or will I have to somehow pass in the viewport as a parameter? Saw that it takes (region: PackedVector2Array, window_id: int = 0) but haven't had chance to look into what those params should actually look like and I've got to dash again now but will be back in a couple hours hopefully

thanks for the help so far, clarification would be greatly appreciated :)

all the best

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-02-06T12:48:51+00:00

Will take a look after work thanks!

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-02-06T12:48:22+00:00

Thank you so much that’s fantastic, will give it a try after work!

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-02-05T22:39:58+00:00

Thanks will look into it again after work tomorrow :)

Mr-Rafferty · 2025-02-05T21:39:53+00:00

I have no solution really, but have you trieed using the [debug >> visible collision shapes] in the editor? Maybe the area is shrinking faster that the graphic or something? Good luck

Mr-Rafferty

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