Godot 3.0: Top-down Tank Battle - Part 7

Follow the written version of the series here:
kidscancode.org/blog/2018/05/g...
Code for this part can be downloaded here:
github.com/kidscancode/topdow...
Art by Kenney: kenney.nl/assets/topdown-tanks...
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[@MattHuisman]

Your a natural teacher and know great programming techniques. Keep it up! :D

[@Glankonian]

Moving along nicely. I appreciate the work you put into this.

[@NeilRoy]

Very well done. Nice, clear explanations.

[@tralavala9808]

Thx for another part :)

[@giggleghost3751]

Thank you so much for this!

[@SergioCandelaRamirez]

As always, amazing tutorial!! :)

[@j.d.waterhouse4197]

I was having lots of problems and discovered they were mostly because of how I had checked layers in the Inspector/Collision section. The term "Mask" seems to me a very counter-intuitive word to use! I kept thinking 'Mask' meant the object would NOT react to objects in that layer.

[@TheCromcrom]

thank you soooooooo much for your tutorials

[@yikescloud]

I think the efx explosion can be instance in the map before bullets die, I think that's be more nature like that: var efx = preload("res://efx/Explosion.tscn") var explode = efx.instance() var map = get_node("/root/Map01") map.add_child(explode)

[@_flavio_silva]

Amazing tutorial :)

[@LinuxGuides]

Thanks! It would be great if you could add some sound to the tanks (with pitchscale etc., wich is controlled in gdscript) in one of the following parts.

[@Kidscancode]

We'll be adding sound at some point soon.

[@Bianchi77]

Good one!

[@petrickmail7349]

Great tutorial. i'm using different approach for enemy tank. i manage enemy tank to follow player but i can't figure it out how do i rotate enemy tank toward player? :( Can you give me something about this?

[@Kidscancode]

The same way you rotate the turret to follow the mouse.Find the angle of the direction vector between the enemy and the player: var direction = (target_position - position).angle()

[@kasperfma]

Hiya! Will you ever be making more pygame tutorials? Cuz i really enjoy them. I would love to see a game like this in pygame.

[@Kidscancode]

I don't have any plans currently. Compared to modern frameworks and tools, pygame is just feeling more and more primitive. I love it as a way to learn Python, but it is kind of a dead-end when it comes to learning game development.

[@kasperfma]

KidsCanCode Ok 😀. What is the best language to learn if i want to get into programming games?

[@settergren938]

@@kasperfma The software he's using in this video, Godot Engine, is pretty solid for learning game dev imo

[@kacperNFS]

6:10 Global rotation doesn't seem to work for me in godot 3.2, the bar acts similar to the blocked AI, it flies off the tank doing some wobbles and comes back after a while. Any ideas lads? I see that your project still works though so I will try and reverse engineer it.

[@kacperNFS]

@Reese Barrs I know, but it's so bizaire that there is not really a way I can think of to fix it. Maybe it's a problem with the collision masking. I will check it tomorrow.

[@LarsZulfoDKJensen]

Did you ever find a fix? Just started coding in GD Script, Godot 3.2.3, and my healthbar acts just as you say...

[@LarsZulfoDKJensen]

I actually just think that I did a dirty fix myself. Under the UnitDisplay's _process function, I just get the position of the parent, and position the unitbar var pos = get_parent().get_node("Body").global_position global_rotation = 0 global_position.x = pos.x - 70 global_position.y = pos.y - 70 You can play around with the x and y positioning, but now my healthbar stays above the tank

[@kacperNFS]

@@LarsZulfoDKJensen I actually never found the fix, but copying the project files everything seemed fine, so I guess it must have been something on my end that I haven't switched on. Great work on your part working it out though.