How to create a Turn-based Combat System in Godot

[@zebwest8152]

If anyone is following this in Godot 4, the format for setting up export variables has changed a bit. It looks like this: extends Resource @export var name: String = "Enemy" @export var texture: Texture = null @export var health: int = 30 @export var damage: int = 20

[@sableeyedscholar2135]

Big thanks, was looking for this comment exactly!

[@ChuRu386]

understood the assignment

[@Kamu34474]

Thanks! It helped

[@Beibai]

Does anyone know how to fix the breaking point after I put set_health($EnemyContainer/ProgressBar, enemy.health, enemy.health)

[@documentcamera8807]

You're a god send

[@RegentStatue745]

Godot 4 doesn't use yield anymore so be sure to use "await". Here is how I used it for closing the textbox: "await textbox_closed" . And here's how I implemented the timer he creates as well: "await get_tree().create_timer(.25).timeout"

[@redbul17]

very helpful, thank you

[@jessg0]

sweet, thx!

[@赵昕昊]

You're so sweet,thanks for help

[@slundal]

I learned more about the UI nodes in 8 minutes from this guy than I have from any other tutorial.

[@hiiambarney4489]

Same! And the worst part is, they changed them afterwards, so now I don't understand it anymore.

[@赵昕昊]

@@hiiambarney4489 So true,there are too many changes between 3.x & 4.x

[@PostFrontier]

This was, by far, the best tutorial that I've seen for turn based combat in Godot. I'm so happy that I found this tutorial. Great job!!!

[@rhos-gfx]

This is such a nice intermediate tutorial. no waffle or overexplaining, just "here's what i did". I'd love to see more like this.

[@RuneDShyznit]

I know it's an older video but better late than never. Just wanted to let you know I learned more about a lot of core aspects of Godot from this video than many other "beginner's guide" videos. Great job explaining stuff in a practical and useful scenario. Thanks.

[@Animosity00]

I'm watching this trying to self teach myself to make a classic turn-based RPG as an old man with about 12 hours of experience with Godot. Still seems like magic. Great knowledge here to be gained!

[@RegentStatue745]

The new export format for the "enemy" resource variable looks like this: "@export var enemy: Resource = null"

[@thoof7589]

Great tutorial. I didn't know you could yield to signals in that way, very helpful!

[@owletstree9523]

Omg I actually managed to re-create everything you did, even 2 years later(with some minor tweaks ofc). Thank you so much!

[@Abel-fu1xq]

Hi, can you please let me know how you were able to create the line for the character attack: "set_health($Background/EnemyHealth/ProgressBar, current_enemy_health)" It gives me an error message saying: "Too few arguments for "set_health()" call. Expected at least 3 but received 2." Edit: Nevermind, I completely missed the next argument somehow lol

[@azaratowcanica2639]

The view count does not do justice to the insanely good informative content! Learnt a lot, Thank you! Hope your channel blows up!

[@ScarlettTheViewer]

This is the most informative and concise video I have ever seen demonstrating specific gameplay with godot. I have spent (admittedly not a ton of time) probably 10 or so hours trying to learn, and hardly got anywhere with it. I know a good bit of python and was honestly considering just using pygame before seeing this. Thank you.

[@rungeon83]

This is fantastic, I'm so glad you hit on resources, there is a lot to learn here! Congrats on an amazing tutorial! I'm still finding controls so tricky so your tutorials have been fantastic for helping me get over the fiddlyness :)

[@jackiewatkins1830]

Im pretty new at this, so i had to slow my man down to like .5 to catch everything he was doing...hes moving fast but excellent showcase of the basic functions that he is covering.

[@maranr]

Really great. I learned a lot about the use of yield and creating resources. Thanks!

[@aneerudh1712]

I'm convinced you are the fastest typer on the planet

[@rockerhelgeson]

Without a doubt, the best turn based tutorial. Please make more content like this, it has been so helpful!

[@teo2805]

Saved for Sunday when I'm done with my exams season... TYSM!

[@mythology100]

Greatly appreciated. Glad I subscribed.

[@filippobegna3512]

Great job, really liked how you made the video: super clear, fast and efficient

[@javleds]

¡Gracias!

[@Blackmamba136]

One of the best tutorials I saw! Thank you

[@gustavoalmeidadaribeira1740]

This video is helped me a TON with my project.I wish you all the best!

[@andersonmaia5767]

Thank you a lot! Using resources to create different enemies is a very handy solution.

[@brotherkito]

In Godot 4, the margin properties have been moved from the HBoxContainer into the MarginContainer object in case anyone is having trouble following that part.

[@KEKEISYOU]

This is great! Thank you so much! On a side note i had to watch it at half speed cause you go through everything so fast it's hard to keep up but thank you for this video!

[@lutherbrown8873]

to get timer to work in godot 4+ (I'm using 4.2): await(get_tree().create_timer(0.25).timeout)

[@wisiel3861]

Ja pierdole zajebisty poradnik koleś, wielkie dzięki, doceniam!

[@SodaFountainJoy]

Thank you! Very helpful concepts.

[@theleeyawnshow]

I like the tutorial. It's basically all I need for my current project. Also I'm planning on making a tutorial series similar to this one in my own language. I hope it works out fine.

[@lukasmorrow8255]

This was an excellent starting point for me! I'm working on a much meatier combat system, but this really helped with the basics of using my stats resources and getting organized!

[@MH-lr6ue]

im following your exact instructions but my player's health bar will not expand i can edit the x value but when i play the scene the health bar is just a sliver.

[@RicardoDavilaTejano]

This was VERY informative. Thank you! Got the notifications activated so I won't miss your next video. No pressures tho

[@buzzbuzz20xx]

Such an amazing video !!!

[@musicdudem6673]

this is amazing thank you! if you ever want to expand this video into a series, that would be amazing!

[@arttopix7224]

Thank you, a lot! This video teaches me more than another tutorial.

[@gomm888]

If anyone is having trouble with the "yield(self, "textbox_closed")" at 11:25 in GoDot 4. I used "await self.textbox_closed" and it worked. My problem was that the game didn't wait for the textbox to close. I hope this helps anyone

[@anton.s6882]

Thanks man for this tutorial

[@shadow-jc3vp]

Great quick video. However, I do wish there was more explanation for certain options you chose or things you did in the video. Otherwise, very straight forward. Thanks!

[@Abel-fu1xq]

Hi, I got up to the point where he was defining the "func set_health(progress_bar, health, max_health):", but I got stuck on the line "progress_bar.get_node("Label").text = "HP: %d/&d" %[health, max_health]". The progress bar doesn't change at all. what should I do? Edit: Nevermind, I just had to chnage it to "HP: %s/&s" %[health, max_health]"

[@AgriasOaks99]

How do you handle multiple enemies? How will the targetting system be like?

[@keriganknowles2818]

Does anyone know how to change the enemy through code instead of dragging in the editor.

[@EthernalOynuyor]

How can i do this if some enemies have 2 actions per turn ? the enemies are spawned as instanced scenes. i gave the enemies a property called "ActionsPerTurn", and "for n in ActionsPerTurn:" but how would i make it wait until the first action is complete ? there are several attacks the enemies can do and i have a "match" that finds and executes the current action the monster is suppoesed to do. Since i can't do it with signals... i'm lost.

[@ForgottenLight15]

You know, you're using _input(event) incorrectly. You're accessing the Input singleton in the _input callback, instead of using the _input callback's event.

[@ropepores4688]

Thank you! Great tutorial!

[@MassiveBreaker]

I know that this video is quite old, but is there a way to do screen shake with a shader instead? I don't like the practice of just making the background bigger, say I want to make an fps shake, would I use a shader for that instead?

[@sanagunx3345]

This tutorial is so dam good, I learn a lot from this. thank you for making this great tutorial for us.

[@DomZaddy]

I know this is an older video by now but what do I do if when the enemy attacks my player it subtracts less than my enemies damage on the first attack?

[@ZDitohyt]

When I try to attack again the health bar stays the same, pls some help

[@broyal_gamers1237]

You are a hero thank you!!!

[@PotatoisDry]

how can i replace the rectTexture with animated sprite in the code?

[@the-birbo]

If you want your UI to move with the camera when it shakes instead of having the camera move past the edges of your UI, create a CanvasItem node and make all your UI nodes children of that node. I have the player panel under a CanvasItem node, but any other UI that you don't want to see past the edges should go there too

[@KamiSanzo]

didn't underrstand anything, 10/10, thanks bro

[@justarandomgamer5648]

Ok how would you go about making like, a magic option or something? Like how would you make it so you could have a menu then pick a spell

[@Moboscrub]

How would you do this if both players are attacking each other at the same time? Like an Auto-battler.

[@seedofstun]

my sprite keeps disappearing whenever i put it into a vbox container :/

[@sdalfbg]

ty, very nice tutorial u helped me a lot

[@MYNDsEYE]

How would i take this and trsition a 3d world into this scene?

[@irrelevantjoshwaa6156]

where was the function enemy turn first written in the project

[@nerbles7472]

is it possible to change what the enemy is? like lets say i kill the dragon and want a different enemy for the next level. would i have to make a completely new scene for that or can change the enemy resource in the script

[@ghostradiodelete]

I haven't gone through this whole tutorial yet, but the way I load enemies in my game is (it's a turn-based, 1st person dungeon crawler), for each step, I roll an encounter against a player's stat, if it fails it encounters an enemy. Then I roll a random bit with player's luck added in right, and it pulls from a list of enemies stored for that floor. Not to get too complicated but basically that list is made up of packed scenes. So how I would do it is make a scene and just change out the enemy in that scene - code the enemy AI and stick that as a child on that scene. Then when you load whatever enemy it picked, everything you need is right there. Any other questions, happy to answer them. Cheers!

[@anton.s6882]

When I followed your tutorial, the damage stops at 20 Hp, and 15Hp when the enemy attack, why?

[@jontopielski6227]

Double check your logic for when you are reducing the current_player_health or current_enemy_health. You can reference the source code directly here: github.com/jontopielski/Turn-Based-Combat/blob/master/src/Battle.gd

[@anton.s6882]

@@jontopielski6227 Done, I just need to change -= to =

[@HProductionsish]

I keep getting an error that says the indentifier "State" isn't declared in the current scope" when trying to access the State.gd script. How do I fix this?

[@yahirfuentes4713]

did you figure it out? edit: nvm i just did. the name on the autoload wasnt the same so just make sure it matches with your code

[@truenincillo805]

Please put RPG game tutorial, slow down basic attacks and skills (not turn-based) replace (turn-based battles) with (time in basic attacks and skills) with (icons-buttons) please tutorial 🙏🙏🙏

[@entityunknown2]

Speed run

[@Ashiira]

This is so difficult to watch as a beginner. I have to pause incredibly often and with great precision, because when he writes something, he'll only display it for a couple of frames and then quickly jump somewhere else, implying that whatever he's done is so obvious that viewers shouldn't even need to see it.

[@marcelroman6639]

Hello! I hope this doesn't come off as rude, but you could watch this video at a slower playback speed

[@muziklol69]

make a part 2

[@suthamonhengrasmee8182]

Thank you very much

[@rvn4]

Nice video

[@gofastutos]

Nive video tutorial but a bit long no ? 😁

[@justarandomgamer5648]

small issue I have, on the line: progress_bar.get_node("Label").text = "HP:%d/%d" % [health, max_health] when I run it in game it tells me: Invalid set index 'text' (on base: 'null instance') with value of type 'String'. can someone help? figured it out, had to make the Label a unique name

[@Beibai]

Does anyone know how to fix the breaking point after I put set_health($EnemyContainer/ProgressBar, enemy.health, enemy.health)

[@cartian8039]

Thank you so much