Godot 4 Overworld Character Controller

[@Baikus]

You are a lifesaver! i've been trying to make a game like "this" but every time i tried to move forward to the code of the battle system my skills on coding and my brain crashes instantly!, i hope you keep makinf this kind of videos, i know not a lot of people want to make this kind of games but i really wish you continue with this kind of stuff! meanwhile you have my sub! i really, reaaaally thank you for this playlist!

[@Holonet01]

Thanks! Really appreciate that. After you get into the weeds with this stuff and get a little experience coding, you'll start having ideas on how to code your own stuff. You'll get better, and as you even see me do a little in this playlist, rewrite stuff when you facepalm your first attempts 😅. I do have a bit more planned for the battle system playlist. Next will probably be the enemy attack. I think that's one major piece I didn't cover yet.

[@Holonet01]

Putting this code in a public repo. github.com/GeneralProtectionFault/Final-Fantasy-Battle I'll pin this comment in each video of the playlist for ease of access. ** Please Note ** The sprites & audio are EXCLUDED just to avoid any possible proprietary headaches, so it will NOT BUILD out of the box, but if replacing the appropriate files in the same locations, it should work. ** Please Also Note ** The code is probably going to have slight differences from some of the videos. I try to point those out when I do so, but there's sufficient complexity that a little refactoring is inevitable. Feel free to comment wih any questions.

[@rifthaven]

If possible could you go over all the files we have to replace? it's kind of confusing 😅

[@Holonet01]

@@rifthaven Yeah I've thrown this around in my head a few times, trying to think how best to do it. If I have time this weekend, I'll try to get something minimal working, maybe at least a script that pulls all the files & respective folders according to the .gitignore. That will get us part of the way, but to make it "easy" I'll have to do something like a sprite "template" that would have to be followed, a set width & height, etc... All that said, the repo gets more complicated because of the subsequent tutorials to this one, implementing some of the battle system menus, timers and such. If you follow this tutorial carefully, it should have what you need for the character controller.

[@rifthaven]

Wow Okay thank you so much I really appreciate your response! I think I am going to give it a go again! I am coming from RPG Maker MV so I really want a battle system similar I just don't like the limitations of the engine w/out plugins@@Holonet01

[@SchalaZeal]

Oooh I missed this!

[@nikolaj7581]

Great video! If i may ask, how did you set up godot in vs code, with available documentation when hovering the mouse over functions?

[@Holonet01]

Thanks! So, first thing w/ VS Code is--in Godot--go to the Editor Menu, Editor Settings (1st item), then about halfway down, in the Text Editor section, select "Use External Editor," then put in the path (for me, it's C:/Microsoft VS Code/Code.exe), and the Exec Flags can be found in Godot's documentation, which should be this: {project} --goto {file}:{line}:{col} At this point, the setup differs for GDScript vs. C#. That's actually a bit of a pain point, I don't think intellisense jives if you have both types of scripts, but I haven't checked in a while. If you're using GDScript, search in the extensions for godot-tools. Of course, in my case, I'm using C#. One trip-up, there is a C# Tools for Godot extension, you don't want that. That is for before Godot switched to .NET Core. What you want is the C# Dev Kit extension (official from Microsoft). To give the lowdown... Microsoft used to have a "lighter" C# extension, but it was kinda garbage, would stop working randomly for folks, myself included. This newer "Dev Kit" seems to be a more complete C# addon. The downside is, it's still in preview, and the intellisense is an amazing pain in the arse, auto-filling a lot of crap and making "Esc" and "

[@nikolaj7581]

@@Holonet01 Thank you so much for the detailed answer, very helpful. It works great!

[@Holonet01]

No problem 👌

[@paulbecket7399]

my way of remembering the funny y co-ordinate thing is I think of it like a flight simulator (flight stick) to make your "airplane" go down you push forward (or up) on the stick to go up you pull back (or down) on the stick.

[@Holonet01]

Haha yeah that works, though in a case like this, I kinda wonder why they didn't just make the blend spaces the same as the actual coordinates. I suppose you're screwed either way though, because you either reorient yourself about the controller or the screen. The real problem is the makers of CRTs. Don't they know they should have drawn from the bottom up? 😂

[@SchalaZeal]

Quite the helpful channel you've got here!

[@Holonet01]

Thank you! And quite a tasteful avatar you've got there 😁

[@SchalaZeal]

@@Holonet01 Thank you! Might you have a discord?

[@Holonet01]

I don't have an actual server, and it might be a headache to out a Discord ID in the comments. Not sure, BUT, a friend of mine (www.youtube.com/@RandyFluharty - he's doing game dev too but his content is more streaming)has a server, and he's cool with me posting a link here, and I can be found there as well. He's got a game development channel within there: discord.gg/zZ3hJwZQ

[@theAphelionDT]

Your videos are great but they're buried in the algorithm, keep it up!

[@Holonet01]

Haha, thanks much! Yeah, I will keep putting some stuff up here. I just can't bring myself to put garbage in my thumbnails like "LYING TO YOU" or "AND THIS HAPPENED" or "IMPOSSIBLE GODOT HACK" 🤣

[@sdmuro]

Ty

[@Holonet01]

You're welcome!