10+2 Tricks We Wish We Knew Earlier | Godot Engine

[@emi_cpl]

Thank you for the shoutout! You will find your previous yield timer trick in Dialogic's source code. Thanks for that as well :)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

That is crazy! Dialogic is such great addon, we have to thank :)

[@snesmocha]

Wait so there’s finally text pausing in dialogic?

[@tomtomkowski7653]

Multiplayer Tip: If you want to run two Godot projects at the same time, one as a Server and the second as a Client, to work on your multiplayer game, then in one of the projects (Server or Client) go to Editor -> Settings -> Network -> Debug and change Remote Port to be different than in a second project. Now you can just run the Server project and the Client project at the same time and make your game. Enjoy! :)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thanks for the tip!

[@geshtu1760]

This works great if your client and server are in separate projects (as you said). If anyone is looking for a solution where the client and server are in the same project, you can run a second instance of the Godot project manager (not the editor), then run the server from there (select the project and click Run on the right hand side without opening the editor). Whether you run the client from the editor and server from the project manager or vice versa is up to you. If you are in Linux and start the project manager from the terminal, you will see the debug output from the server in the terminal.

[@creatroyer2701]

WOW! The "get_node_or_null" made my jaw drop.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Yeah, that one is really quite hard to find...

[@rungeon83]

Hahah SNAP! I was like "How did I not know this?!?!" The amount of times I've written lines like "Check the node I've tried to return is not null..." lol

[@unfa00]

I thought get_node() will return a Null anyway. Can't you just use this?: var node = get_node("some_node") if not node: print("The node doesn't exist!") Maybe that's how it works on Godot 4 :D

[@madlobaaa]

The blackhole looks insane! So stoked to seeing that tutorial. And these baby swans are too cute learning to grab food from the ground :3

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Coming soon!

[@bitbirdy]

Thanks for the shout out!! This series is absolute gold by the way

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

People seem to be really thankful for your trick :) Glad you like it, it's so fun to make!

[@hexdump8590]

Starting with godot (old unity engine user since 2012) and you channel is awesome. Great and informative! Keep on!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thats amazing, thanks! :)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

What is something about Godot that you discovered? Let us know here so we can make this series ridicoulisly long!

[@SaiponathGames]

In the 3d editor, you can access Orbit and Panning which was only possible with middle mouse button, but now you can change it by going to editor settings mouse (I think) and then emulate 3 mouse button and then go to navigation to change the buttons for orbit and Panning, it was quite helpful for me as a 3d game developer.

[@winstonyallow]

Metadata. Every type that inherits from Object can have metadata (methods: set_meta get_meta, has_meta). Can be useful for multiple purpose. I use this heavily when debugging: I often have objects that are generated somewhere and then passed along in some way. Sometimes I want to mark certain objects. I can simply add metadata to them to do so. And in other parts I can check this metadata. For example in my current procedural city generator I have a many Mesh resources. They get generated in one place and then later rendered. My code that renders the meshes simply checks for a "debug_color_override" metadata. So if I want to debug a specific edge case in my algorithm, I can mark the resources generated for this with a color. And they will be displayed with that color in-game so I can easily find them in the city. The fun part is that I am only passing around default godot resources without any custom class, as default objects already can transport this metadata. I admit, this is a kinda specific usecase, but it get's the point across. There are other usecases too.

[@stefanobertolotti2555]

Two useful things are the _draw function and the ColorRect node, they are really good for prototyping.

[@Zephilwroxt]

Thank you. I'm new to Godot creating my first game. These tips are gold!

[@Visionsofmortality]

Great video again! Thank you

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mythology100]

Great video and very informative.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thanks, glad it was helpful!

[@jeffg4686]

Much thanks to your team for the shares. Learn a lot of great stuff in these tips. Being aware of all the little nuissances saves time for sure.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

That is great to hear! There is so much stuff one does not even know to look for.

[@dfa2691]

Well done! Nice videos and nice to see you both so passionate about game dev and game design.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you :) We certainly are...

[@MrEliptik]

Wow, the particles emission shape from a mask and the curves are so cool! I need to try it, thanks a lot for the video :)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

That's great to hear! You can do so many nice effects with these tricks.

[@RebeccaHere]

really liked this video. it was good and informative and really well made! keep it up :)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Glad you liked it! Thank you :)

[@dolphin-sd]

Thanks for sharing, especially the curves came in pretty handy in my case!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Glad it was helpful! I am always suprised how flexible they are.

[@nosferkg]

Again, love it!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

That is great :)

[@NevoskiStudios]

This is a super helpful series, there's always something new to learn!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you so much :)

[@atikahrostam5778]

very informative! ❤️

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Glad it was helpful to you :)

[@jonahdevs]

Will definitely try and revisit the day/night shading using curves instead of fully coding the function myself like you suggested! Great video as always

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Interesting idea! You could also try a gradient that you sample depending on the day time. Thanks!

[@nosdregamon]

0:37 - I could slap myself in the face, when I find a cool tool in the center bar, because I've almost certainly at some point wasted hours searching for exactly that thing in the Inspector (on the right) instead.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Sometimes it is hidden in plain sight, this happened to me as well!

[@pr0cs]

Wow, I'm not an expert but I have used the godot editor for a while now and this video STILL showed a bunch of items that I didn't know existed, thank you! Can't think of any specific tips other than if you use the Animation/AnimationPlayer to design a particular effect/scene it can be nearly impossible to get the content of that scene 'out' of the animation. ie: if you try to capture the content of the state of the animation player and say save the state of the animation to a texture or back to a sprite it can be really difficult, maybe even impossible if you use shaders in your animation player.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

There is so much stuff that you never even know you should look for, right? How would you capture the state of an animation player?

[@pr0cs]

@@PlayWithFurcifer AnimationPlayer is very handy for creating animations for your sprites, allow you to mix in shaders, transitions and so on and visualize it without endlessly re-running your app to see the overall effect. BUT, lets say you want to capture what the animation looks like in a texture, or do something with it (sprite chunking in my current project), well, you simply cannot, at best you can try and 'guess' based on the AnimationPlayer time position what the sprite 'might' look like but if you apply a bunch of shaders to the sprite in the AnimationPlayer you can never get an exact copy of the output to do something with it. Which is pretty disappointing.

[@Obeah111]

I always love the videos! Looking forward to the destined "13 Things We Wish We Knew Earlier"!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

That is great to hear! 13 things will definitely happen, we have already collected quite a few more things.

[@SubrataDas-sb2bw]

Useful tips that should help every godot developer

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

We certainly hope so!

[@javisartdesign]

thanks for the tips!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Glad you liked it :)

[@mervzmotovlog]

i just started using godot, i learned a lot from this vid. thank you so much. ^_^ Subscribed BTW.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thanks for the sub!

[@ThonThar]

Black hole tutorial would be awesome!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

We will start working on it!

[@DestusG]

The lightning laser gun effect in your game do you you have a tutorial on that

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Not yet, but we think about making one!

[@totallyjustmagic]

This is really helpful, thank you

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Awesome, that's great to hear!

[@LucaPassini]

Very good videos and high quality content! Just a little tip for improvement, I find the male version a little difficult to understand but maybe it's just me!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Thank you! We will keep an eye on that. Audio stuff is difficult

[@LucaPassini]

@@PlayWithFurcifer with "male version" I meant male voice of course XD

[@gera8428]

Thanks for the great video! I would love to know how you guys implemented AOEs effect, make a tutorial video about it please!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Do you mean the telegraph-attacks? That really is quite a good topic.

[@gera8428]

@@PlayWithFurcifer I mean the attack/spell range indicator in your game, which shows up everytime when the enemy attacks player or player attack enemy.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

@@gera8428 We would definitely like to explain this at some point. However, it is something we are still working on and it is quite complicated. The basic idea is to build a polygon2D and a Line from an collisionShape2D and then use a texture scrolling shader on the Polygon.

[@idiotprogrammer9125]

Thanks for the hiding unneeded stuff tip. I swear the option was not even there before seeing this video as how could i have missed it :)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

I think this option is quite new, it came with 3.2 or so. Great that is was helpful!

[@point0419]

Extremely useful! Thanks for the video :D For the 4th part, I'm wondering how shaders work with particles, you can have a particle shader which only has a vertex shader, but also an override shader which is fully functional. Passing variables between them is kinda hacky imo, are there any suggestions?

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Glad you liked it! The ways to pass data from the particle shader we know of are by using INSTANCE_CUSTOM in the vertex shader and using the COLOR. Maybe the Diablo-particles video might help you

[@drvortex]

7:42 Thanks you all and BitBirdy - Than extra console window is super annoying Go to Editor > Editor settings Then the first item (interface > Editor) search for a checkbox called "Hide Console Window" and set it to true

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

I killed this console way too many times on accident!

[@KrystofKlestil1337]

For me it's been tweens. Tweens made me change my ways after coming to realize how useful they were.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Tweens are really great. It seems like there are even some improvements for them on the way for Godot 4.0.

[@KrystofKlestil1337]

@@PlayWithFurcifer yeah looking forward to those.

[@Mixthelightintogray]

Didn't know about hidding editor tabs and the console! Wow! Thank you so much for the tricks! Love those videos, just subbed, thank you! Edit: Hidding nodes also hides them from the search in documentation, making it easier to find what you want! Godot still amaze me after some years! PS: Your accent is totally perfect!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks :)

[@trevortjes]

7:15 finally no more 3D tab (for now...)

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

I think this is worth mentioning :D

[@andikasujanadi]

Where is point texture:(

[@DileepNow]

"You can make collision shapes visible for T-bagging purposes".

[@nowherebrain]

boc. yeah, I get it, aber warum? seriously, keep the videos coming...theres stuff in here I never knew.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

We will keep them coming!

[@beginnereasy]

So hype

[@talanock]

i had to hear debugging a few times before I realized it was debugging and not t-bagging...

[@rungeon83]

Wait.. I thought you was just pretending to be German :O I now need to unsubscribe :'(... okay I'll get over it I suppose :D Awesome video, I didn't know about get_node_or_null, it's things like this that really excite me as I love learning new things, thanks guys. P.S I've been learning German for almost a year now :D but can't do the accent.

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

Phew, would be heartbreaking to lose you. :'o Nice, this one seems to be really unknown. Aw, that's cool! Just for fun or for what reason? :D Some German words are so funny, like Käsebockwurst.

[@rungeon83]

@@PlayWithFurcifer My fave word is Zeitung(maybe it's how duolingo over prounounces it), It's just so fun to say.. I'm learning for fun, I'm English and I find it crazy that we don't focus on a second language. Plus I love German films and culture and it's a place I've always wanted to visit, I'd like to be able to show some respect by learning the language!

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

@@rungeon83 I love "Lagerregal" (which is an actual word nobody would find odd) because you can read is backwards and it still is the same word. If you ever happen to visit the wonderful Ilmenau, you are invited for a coffee!

[@rungeon83]

@@PlayWithFurcifer that would be truely awesome :D I'd pick your brains about shaders 😂 Back to the coding!

[@vaibhavgarg484]

Newbie question -> 1. lambda expressions 2. ways to animate a character

[@PlayWithFurcifer]

I would love to answer that question, but i do not quite know what you are asking for. Lambda expressions are about to come with Godot 4. For animations you can use animated sprites, animation players or skeletal animations.