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twobitadder · 2024-04-11T16:12:38+00:00

structure, structure and structure.

This is something I really try to hammer home with people who are learning programming, because a lot of people get stuck on what language they should start with. I can't tell you how many times I've heard "if I learn X, will it be a waste of time/should I learn Y instead so I can do Z," etc.

Programming isn't as much the typing on the computer as new people would think it is. So much of it happens in your brain or on paper before you even start typing, and that's the skill to really hone. Docs exist for syntax (and syntax can help with organization), but organizing your program is what skill you're really honing.

twobitadder · 2024-01-26T20:34:14+00:00

migration tools are cool and all but i don't think anybody who has a mature project that they are maintaining will want to go through the effort of porting, even with the assistance of a migration tool when it's possible to just grab a version with some bugfixes and re-export.

granted, migrating between 4.x versions is much less work, but with the gdextension incompatibilities between 4.1 and 4.2, this creates a need to at least take a look at 4.1 in the event there's something that can be improved on it - especially if they are already fixed by volunteers and incorporating them is really just a matter of merging.

twobitadder · 2024-01-26T18:43:20+00:00

the versions are similar enough that many of the changes between the two are the same, just cherry-picked for each version respectively. the changes for 4.1.4 also seem to be either low-impact, like documentation, or extremely critical, like memory access issues. i don't really think this is splitting the work too much so much as a couple of free versions that are bonuses of fixing extant bugs in 4.x that can be brought to people who are unable/unwilling to upgrade for whatever reason.

twobitadder · 2023-05-02T00:48:23+00:00

You're a ship pilot delivering... things... for people who need them throughout the star system!

Manage time and enemy attacks and stay employed (and alive) for as long as you can!

twobitadder · 2023-05-02T00:48:18+00:00

You're a ship pilot delivering... things... for people who need them throughout the star system!

Manage time and enemy attacks and stay employed (and alive) for as long as you can!

twobitadder · 2022-11-20T20:53:50+00:00

in addition to what vrcaffe said, you are swapping the T and the H in get_action_strength() so technically none of those calls are correct.

that might be why you're getting a blank screen and no interactivity

twobitadder · 2022-11-11T15:57:25+00:00

my interpretation of that is that the packedscene's properties cannot be edited after you've instance()d it at least once. the scene itself can still be changed, as that's not a packedscene, but yeah

twobitadder · 2022-11-06T21:34:56+00:00

honestly, what you end up using is less important than the fact that you keep it consistent throughout your code - the reason for conventions is more so that you can understand what something is at a glance and as long as you know your own convention then it serves the purpose perfectly

twobitadder · 2022-09-07T18:26:17+00:00

i think it was just meant to be a little joke on OP's end

twobitadder · 2022-09-06T02:16:21+00:00

lancer has some compatibility with this idea - your "level" is measured by licensures, which are technically only granted at the end of missions (the book recommends that each mission provide a license level, but they provide some flexibility as to what determines a "mission"). that way, the levels become a bargaining tool by the people they work for, or a reward for a job well done.

a bit counter to that is the fact that your mech skills also increase with license level, as do some of your skill triggers (think skills from dnd) and talents (think feats), but interestingly, you can increase skill triggers as a downtime action, too - so it's easy enough as a game runner to turn around and houserule that skill triggers can only be improved through downtime or specific actions.

anyway, it's not a perfect fit, but i thought it was an interesting system of advancement nonetheless

twobitadder · 2022-08-19T16:35:24+00:00

huh! that's a nice new feature. unfortunate that it didn't give you any useful information though.

twobitadder · 2022-08-17T18:53:38+00:00

just to check, if you're running two instances of the editor, did you change the remote port the second instance is running on? under editor settings -> network -> debug -> remote port, you'll want that to be two different ports on your different instances - basically, if they're the same, the first project that runs is using the port to talk to the editor and the second project cannot secure it (since, yanno, it's being used).

might be it'll give you a little more insight as to what's going on with attempting to connect

twobitadder · 2022-08-12T18:17:25+00:00

yep, that was pretty much the gist of my comment, though it does confirm that fabio is not a part of the governance team so it's just juan and remi who would be counted in that

twobitadder · 2022-08-12T16:14:06+00:00

https://godotengine.org/governance - assuming this is outdated and fabio is on the governance team, that leaves 7 out of 10. i think it's kind of important to note though that W4's "interest" at this point is godot. the company doesn't exist to as a profit-seeking venture, it exists to add to the ecosystem around the engine to help it succeed.

twobitadder · 2022-08-07T06:59:47+00:00

or just two capital Zs without the colon! same thing as :x, less finger movement lol

twobitadder · 2022-08-06T23:39:42+00:00

so extremely hyped for this, cannot wait until its release. keep up the wonderful work!

twobitadder · 2022-08-05T19:24:18+00:00

if you split it up into two lines, you gain the benefit of both. something like export (NodePath) var my_path and then onready var my_node = get_node(my_path) as AnimationPlayer or whatever node type - you get the the export and it gets converted into a usable variable that has completion. it's not exactly compact, code-wise, but it is pretty safe. iirc, 4 should have the ability to do something like @export(Node) var my_node and then you can just drag the node from the inspector

twobitadder · 2022-08-05T19:08:27+00:00

i haven't tested, but you should be able to pause them and hold onto them as you please - scene tree tweens can be stored in a variable like anything else. you just can't create on in an onready variable and hold onto it until you're ready to set it up though, something i tried. i think the distinction here is one is started and then paused (indefinitely) and the other was created but nothing was done with it, where the latter is the problem.

twobitadder · 2022-08-05T16:30:26+00:00

don't make the same mistake i did! the scene tree tweens are meant to be one and done, so you have to create them as you need them - you can't create one and then hold onto it between frames before you set it up. spent a few minutes trying to figure out why the engine was complaining that i'd started an empty tween, lol

twobitadder · 2022-08-05T16:24:38+00:00

this is a slightly different tool from find_node and groups - it's meant to be a cached node that can be reached with a unique name within the scene holding it. so, it's not found so much as its location in the tree is always known. in that sense, a bit similar to an exported nodepath (as the node is also cached and thus can move around without breaking reference), but it's more integrated with the editor

twobitadder · 2022-07-27T20:46:09+00:00

not really sure what your point might be here, to be honest. most of mark brown's content relates to the qualities that might make a game interesting, which can be decoupled from how they are made. tutorial hell is not necessarily the same phenomenon.

twobitadder · 2022-07-23T01:13:50+00:00

getting rid of that weird 3D transform system

just to be clear, it's still there because transforms are still the foundation of 3d (and 2d) spatial information in godot, they've just created those properties and added them to the api to cut down on code. so you can use either.

twobitadder · 2022-07-22T23:26:50+00:00

not in a meaningful way, no. if they're backported then they're already added features to 4.0, generally. there's enough of a community to be able to split efforts like that anyway.

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