How to Make a Pause Game Menu & Pause the Game ~ Godot 4 Tutorial

[@Game_DEV_4]

This is the best tutorial I found for menus in Godot, but if you want to make the menu open new tabs like for settings, I can't figure out how to do it. Thanks for the tutorials!

[@taylorberukoff3242]

Fantastic explanations and attention to detail. Very much appreciated!

[@duccloud4101989]

You saved my day. Thank you :D

[@dzmitrypadrig4037]

Very well explained! Thank you for these series!

[@jordanfox840]

This is a little off-topic, but it seems to me like your node structure is a little different than what I usually see in Godot tutorials. You have the "game" node which has the levels as instances, rather than having the levels be the root node themselves. Does that mean that then when you go to change a level, instead of doing get_tree().change_scene_to_file("next_level") you instead have the root "game" node instance the next level in itself? It just seems to me that this decision should be made very early on in development, since essentially you are always going to be on the single game node instead of bouncing around a bunch of scenes. Is this what the Godot devs recommend? Or, can you tell me why you think this is optimal? Thanks.

[@dreamhive3d]

I can't speak for the creator here, but I also use this structure. It allows for certain variables and signals to be more accessible, and makes it easier to switch out levels without having to pass a ton of information between them each time.

[@Mop82-h4b]

It does depend on the game youre making but generally and in my opinion its optimal, because it allows you to pass player data between scenes without autoloads/singletons (which I try to avoid using for bugfixing purposes).

[@zero102321]

So how can you solve this problem? I've the same question too.

[@lukarizzi1654]

@@zero102321 what problem? I'd also say that most of the time having a root game manager node is the optimal way to structure most projects. Otherwise in most cases you'd have to abuse a lot of autoloads to get some basic functionality for the project, I think.

[@FloatingOer]

I use this structure as well, the game I'm currently working on have a very interactive main menu and this structure allows me to just pause and hide the menu until a level is finished, this way all the interactions made remain exactly the same when the player returns without the need of saving and loading or transferring variables.

[@glennsimpson115]

Ok I have completely remade your whole tutorial video and recreated this 8 times now and it is not working. I click “esc” nothing happens. I asked on reddit /Godot 23 hours ago and no comments. I have spent 2 full days just on this one trying to get your pause menu to work. I just what to know why I am hitting a stage on this. I like the way you do all of this. And I see that no one else is having this issue.

[@thepolyglotprogrammer]

Awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

[@BasementStudi0s]

mine pauses but doesnt resume EDIT: nvrm i just had to set the "game" node process to always

[@frenchiestfry7306]

Regarding my previous question, the only way i found to make a pause menu for more than 1 scene, is for every single scene to have its own game manager. How can i do this in a better less time consuming way?

[@efhunter]

Did you ever find a solution for this?

[@frenchiestfry7306]

@@efhunter unfortunetly no, i only found some pause menu templates that i havent got around to use yet

[@arcanealchemist3190]

@@frenchiestfry7306 all you should have to do is place all of your scenes as a parent of the game manager. i feel like you dont understand what the purpose of the manager is at all. are you just copy and pasting code?

[@ThisTimeIsForMe]

@@arcanealchemist3190 Speaking from personal experience, I am trying to learn code from tutorials because my mind has difficulty absorbing information via text only. I don't understand the purpose of the manager yet, and their comment is one I might ask to try to understand how it works. We come here to learn so I think it's safe to assume most people watching these videos don't yet understand fully how everything works and we are trying to learn by doing.

[@arcanealchemist3190]

around 16:18 when i got to assign the game manager node to my pause menu, all the nodes are greyed out. so i cant select my game manager node and hit the okay button. any ideas why this is?

[@stygianrot5361]

at about 15:10 you set a class name for the game manager (in the tutorial it being GameManager), and in the pause_menu script you write @export var game_manager : GameManager, (the GameManager being the class name of the game manager). If the @export var "type" you write in is different from the class name, godot won't let you drag it in, since the node isn't that class! Make sure that the class name you feed in for the export variable is the same as the game manager's class name, or alternatively you don't have to write in anything besides "@export var game_manager", and you should be able to drag in any node (preferrably the game manager node haha), hope this helps :)

[@arcanealchemist3190]

@@stygianrot5361 thanks! this did end up being the issue, somewhere in all the renaming my files got completely messed up. ended up just kinda, re-doing the whole tutorial since renaming stuff more just created more errors. --im now having other issues with the project but i think im calling it quits for now. so frustrated-- i figured out my other issues, rushing through the tutorial i made a series of silly little mistakes, like not setting the process on the gamemanager node to always. so when i paused, the script which was necessary to unpause the game was no longer running.

[@stygianrot5361]

@@arcanealchemist3190 no problem! and yeah, it's way too easy to make little mistakes like that, i'm glad you were able to figure them out :D

[@Higgsinophysics]

What about the warning?

[@bazookabasssound]

how do i change my mouse visibility when pausing the game/opening the menu?

[@cookiekoneko]

I was able to do it by putting this line of code in the input function in the game manager script - Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_VISIBLE)

[@cookiekoneko]

you will need to turn it back somewhere the code for that would be - Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_CAPTURED)

[@izzy67893]

pls help it just keeps syaing nuull instance when im trying to show or hide

[@MoviesManiac-u7r]

it can be what ever scene you trying to load is node included in your main game node my game had that same issue cause my pipes for super human flap game were not in the main scene node of animation i donot know your game but this might help

[@izzy67893]

@@MoviesManiac-u7r Its been a few months but thank you alot for the info!

[@IliaElizarov]

Thank you :)

[@CorrodedMoon]

The toggle game paused signal isnt recognised for me

[@ruru9731]

What editor theme are you using for Godot?

[@herc34es]

Excellent tutorial. I think I followed every step correctly, but the ESC button does not cancel the menu screen for me. Will watch it again just in case I missed something

[@Leghar]

I fixed this by removing the Input code in the GameManager. (I’m using a global autoload). And it works now. I think the duplicate Input codes were fighting the close the menu but were okay with opening the menu.

[@sarahpuspdew]

@@Leghar which input code do you mean? coz im using global autoload also and having this issue

[@Leghar]

@@sarahpuspdew at 15:15 lines 15-17. I took those out and used code within the pause menu for pausing and unpausing. Its been a while since I've messed with this but I hope this helps. func _input(event: InputEvent) -> void: if event.is_action_pressed("menu") and global.playerHP > 0: show() global.game_paused = true $Panel/VBoxContainer/ResumeButton.grab_focus() func _on_resume_button_pressed() -> void: hide() global.game_paused = false

[@a.aspden]

Is it possible to pause a simulation and continue using UI buttons instead of a keystoke? I want to be able to control the simulation with clickable buttons.

[@ray_is_here]

Yeah. Just add texture rect in canvaslayer (texture rect should be child of canvaslayer not of control) then import your button image into it.Then In texture rect you can see action. In action add the same input as you do with escape e.g. ui_cancel. And it will work as escape key

[@copeless1090]

@@ray_is_here why shouldn't it be a child of control?

[@ray_is_here]

@@copeless1090 Because it will work with canvaslayer

[@infinite2692]

How can i add music??

[@frenchiestfry7306]

How can i have this pause menu without making a 'GameManager' node and repeating this process for every scene in the game? There has to be a way to display this in all scenes witout having to redo this for all of them

[@capuchinosofia4771]

I know its seven months later, but did you try making it a autoload/singleton? That way you wont need to make everything in the gamemanager.

[@jxstise2296]

The pause works for me but for the first pause, I need to press the pause key twice then after it works whenever. Does anyone have a suggestion?

[@coolguy230]

idk i have the same problem did you fix it

[@AlChestBreach]

I think I was having this problem, my menu was on screen when gameplay was running. In the 'game_manager' script I took away the ! punctuation mark and it flipped/fixed it to get_tree().paused = game_paused get_tree().paused = !game_paused TO get_tree().paused = game_paused

[@coolguy230]

@AlChestBreach thanks but I just used different code and it works with get_tree().paused = !game_paused

[@damnthishandleistaken]

Are you planning on getting the Save and Load buttons to work?

[@TheMaJestic14]

Thank you for the dope tutorials Chris , was wondering if you could do one on audio servers ? and can you give me a shoutout ;D

[@SGTIvan921]

5:52

[@ruobian]

i hate the tutorials those have a title how to do only one thing, but explain billion things.