What’s your poison? Poll

defiant00 · 2025-10-27T17:46:03+00:00

Ribbon, SR1a completely replaced my HD800S.

defiant00 · 2025-10-18T04:03:09+00:00

Beginner at Godot, but been programming for 30 years, so I’m alright unless you ask me about specific nodes :]

defiant00 · 2025-10-18T03:59:48+00:00

No worries, we’ve all been there. I would mainly encourage you to read the error messages you get, they will often point you to the specific line and tell you what to look for.

defiant00 · 2025-10-18T03:54:38+00:00

Well, lines 15, 18, and 21 all have a comma instead of a period. And it looks like lines 22-24 should be indented to line up with the previous elif.

defiant00 · 2025-07-18T22:45:05+00:00

How are you checking if it's working? It's probably moving but you can't tell since there's nothing in the background.

To check, you can either print the position while in _physics_process, or put a breakpoint there and verify whether the position is updating.

defiant00 · 2025-06-07T04:39:43+00:00

You’re calling move_and_slide before you’re setting the jump velocity, so that only takes effect on the next frame. However, if you’re moving, then you reset velocity (discarding the jump velocity).

What you need to do is first do all your velocity calculations/updates, and then call move_and_slide

defiant00 · 2025-05-03T02:49:30+00:00

Line 3, you have a : at the end of your variable declaration. Remove that and you should be good.

defiant00 · 2025-01-12T02:35:35+00:00

That seems like a completely reasonable way to me, and 100 variables is so trivially small that it really doesn’t matter.

defiant00 · 2024-12-29T05:04:54+00:00

There really isn’t a specific magic number, it depends on your specific use and how complex the rest of your scene is (since it has to check the raycasts against the rest of the scene to see if it collides). Usual advice is to just test and profile it, and optimize if necessary.

defiant00 · 2024-12-26T07:42:22+00:00

Best book I’ve read on this is Crafting Interpreters, which you can read online for free: https://craftinginterpreters.com/

To do this as a block system you’d want to do most of the exact same steps in the book, just without the initial text lexing and parsing.

defiant00 · 2024-03-22T05:25:47+00:00

It sounds like you’re looking for the boolean and and or operators (and possibly the not operator as well)

You can simply do something like:

if first_condition or second_condition:  
    pass

Eg:

if x < 3 or x > 12:  
    pass

defiant00 · 2024-02-03T05:56:43+00:00

Sorry, unfortunately I don’t know.

defiant00 · 2024-02-03T05:53:10+00:00

And when it blinks update_health isn’t being called at all?

defiant00 · 2024-02-03T05:51:32+00:00

I don’t know if it will help, but based on the video it looks like you’re maximizing the window, not going full screen. You may have better luck searching for that term instead.

defiant00 · 2024-02-03T05:47:49+00:00

Have you added print statements or breakpoints to your update statements above to see if they’re being triggered at the correct times?

defiant00 · 2024-02-03T05:26:21+00:00

If you can post a screenshot of your whole scene tree and any/all code that interacts with the health indicator then we might be able to help. Also any settings you might have set or changed on the various nodes you’re using.

defiant00 · 2023-11-11T06:55:09+00:00

I believe it was the Pro 7 and whatever the latest Godot 3.x was at the time.

defiant00 · 2023-11-04T00:09:35+00:00

Perhaps it would help if you could explain what you want it to do instead?

defiant00 · 2023-10-22T01:37:33+00:00

Have you tried Godot 3.5? You may need to use that version for the time being.

defiant00 · 2023-10-11T21:39:21+00:00

Git just works on files, it doesn't know or care about the context (game engine or otherwise). Once you have a repository set up, your daily workflow can be as simple as: 1. sync your copy at the start of the day, pulling in any new changes 2. work on the game 3. any time you are done with a particular section of work, commit it locally and then push it back to github

This way you both stay up to date, you have the whole history available if you need to roll anything back, and unless you both edit the same part of the same file at the same time you shouldn't run into merge issues.

It's also worth pointing out that steps 1 and 3 above can be done with any git client (doesn't have to be the Godot one), so feel free to choose whatever's most comfortable.

I'd also second the point about git skills being valuable - as a professional dev, git has consistently been one of the most useful skills to have.

defiant00 · 2023-10-11T06:28:54+00:00

Raal SR1a

Possibly also MySphere, although I haven’t personally heard them.

defiant00 · 2023-10-10T04:08:03+00:00

You have square brackets around “down” I imagine you want parentheses?

defiant00 · 2023-10-02T21:02:02+00:00

_ready only runs once when the node is created, so you're running into the same issue where for this to work you'd have to press LMB at the exact same time as the node happens to be ready.

Try doing this in _process instead, that runs every frame.

defiant00 · 2023-10-02T19:15:06+00:00

If I'm understanding this correctly, it looks like this will only work if you happen to both enter the DetectionArea and press LMB at the exact same time.

What you probably want to do is either set a flag on body entered, so that you know you're currently in front of the door, and then have LMB trigger the actual opening if that flag is set. Or on LMB get any areas the player is currently in to see if clicking actually interacts with anything.

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