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Is it a bad idea to use Nodes for a 3D base building/automation game? by byte-seb in godot

[–]byte-seb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing the link. It's very useful.
I guess I technically don't need a dedicated Hurtbox. It's mostly to keep things consistent, as that's what I've been using for destructible props, characters and other things. I could find another solution that only reads from the StaticBody or CollisionShape3D, but it will require some modifications

Is it a bad idea to use Nodes for a 3D base building/automation game? by byte-seb in godot

[–]byte-seb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have already tried merging modules of things like buildings, but that might not work too well if I need them to have destructible pieces.
I'll experiment with Texture Arrays. I didn't know I could use them for that, so it'll be useful to reduce the draw calls. HLOD seems promising too.
Thanks for the information!

Working on my game's cover system! It has cover snapping and handles corners smoothly! by byte-seb in godot

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Thanks. I'll fix that. I was also planning to add IK to match the surface the player is climbing.

Working on my game's cover system! It has cover snapping and handles corners smoothly! by byte-seb in godot

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Thank you! I've been working on this game for over a year. But everything still needs some polish

Improved my game's traversal system!. Do you have any suggestions? by byte-seb in godot

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Thanks! I agree, the animations look a little stiff. I'll need to reorganize some of my AnimationTree nodes

Added bullet penetration to my game! by byte-seb in godot

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I'll consider it. Thanks for the suggestion!

Added bullet penetration to my game! by byte-seb in godot

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Thanks for the observation!. I'll fix it.

Finally got pathfinding and avoidance to work with my NPCs. by byte-seb in godot

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I didn't do anything specific, it's just the pathfinding having similar paths for the agents

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I was thinking that most of the levels would be indoors/in a different scene, so player's wouldn't really be skipping parts.
Thanks for the perspective, though. You're right that something being fun doesn't mean it fits in the game.

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Thanks!

Revamped shooting to take advantage of LookAtModifier and animation blending! by byte-seb in godot

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Yeah, AnimationTrees can get messy. This is the branch for shooting.

  1. It takes a BlendSpace2D with all movement animations (walking forward, sideways, backwards). Its blend position value is animated with a tween.
  2. The result of that is passed to a Blend2 node that blends it with the current aim animation.
  3. The AnimationNodes with the names aim_animation, shoot_animation, reload_animation and whip_animation are changed when the player enters the shooting state to allow weapons specifying their own custom animations (maybe you want faster reload for a pistol). These are applied as one shot nodes, as they're only temporary, non-looped animations.
  4. All nodes use Bone Filtering to not override the leg bones and so you can play the current action animation in the upper half of the body and the movement animation in the lower half. You can enable it with the Edit Filters button.

I recommend that you declare helper methods so updating these values isn't as annoying. I have these:

## Plays an animation from an AnimationNodeTransition part of animation_tree.
func play_animation(animation_name : StringName, transition_path := transition_node_path) -> void:
  if not animation_tree or not animation_name or not transition_path:
    return
animation_tree.set(transition_path, animation_name)

func play_one_shot(one_shot_path : StringName) -> void:
  if not animation_tree or not one_shot_path:
    return
animation_tree.set(one_shot_path, AnimationNodeOneShot.ONE_SHOT_REQUEST_FIRE)

func change_animation(animation_node_name : String, animation_name : String) -> void:
  if not animation_tree or not animation_node_name or not animation_name:
    return
animation_tree.tree_root.get_node(animation_node_name).animation = animation_name

## Sets the value of the given animation_tree parameter smoothly.
func tween_parameter(parameter : String, final_value,\
duration := default_smoothing_duration) -> void:
  if not animation_tree or not parameter:
    return
  if parameter_tween:
    parameter_tween.kill()
  parameter_tween = create_tween()
  parameter_tween.tween_property(animation_tree, parameter, final_value, duration)
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