Overview of the 5 most common UI nodes in Godot

[@Gdquest]

It takes some effort to wrap your head around Godot’s UI system, but once you did, it makes it easy to create all sorts of complex layouts. The system is flexible. There are 5 base nodes that work with textures directly: image files that you import in the engine and apply manually to the nodes. They are easy to find if you search for “texture” in the add node window. There are also containers that automatically arrange their children on the screen with a variety of behaviours. They produce vertically or horizontally aligned layouts, space UI elements evenly, etc.

[@AdamPippin]

Where are all these controls? Have they been renamed in Godot 3?

[@xcl9189]

but once you did ? what if I never did

[@gonzo191]

Godot's UI system is the main reason why I prefer it to Unity. It's so simple to layout you UI when compared.

[@SheetMusicDesu]

Only thing I wish it had was free-scaling fonts. As far as I know there isn't a way to do it in godot without creating a new dynamic font

[@JacobKinsley]

@@SheetMusicDesu 2 years later and they still didn't add it rip lmao

[@LrdZanny]

Gotta take a second here while watching all the videos I thought would be useful dating back to 2014 - these are all extremely well made. Very few educational resources can keep my focus as long as your software tutorial videos do. The pacing is really great.

[@Gdquest]

Thank you for the kind words Zanny :) there's more coming!

[@chadthurston2006]

I love how the ads on these videos are always for Unity or someone selling Unity courses.

[@Gdquest]

:D

[@tylerprince9494]

It's because unity is trying to stay on top as an easy to use dev environment... its one of the most picked game engines for indie development and engines like Godot are starting to squeeze them out with a completely free alturnative... and I have a feeling that within the next 5-6 years Godot will have a helpful community around it much the size of blender's.

[@TheCivildecay]

@@tylerprince9494 I see Godot more of a alternative to the smaller engines like GM:studio

[@tylerprince9494]

@@TheCivildecay As it stands now I see it that way too but I have no doubt that it will continue to grow into a competitor to Unreal Engine in the future... much like blender that started off as a bit of a joke in the industry is really starting to gain traction in the professional space. It was even used in the production Avengers Infinity War. Not mention that Godot has a sizeable following around with two small games studios working on it full time. plus compatibility for the Vulkan API was just abbed in the latest update.

[@TheCivildecay]

@@tylerprince9494 godot seems to be developing really fast atm, so I hope they will add some performance improvements and it will be one of the big players soon

[@Mrgigaboom]

Geez, there is so much information here.. had to watch it like 5 times haha. really good job, very valuable video.

[@rinkun6689]

Holy crap the ui in godot in like a godsend, wayyy more easier to grasp than game maker studio 2 for sure. Are you able to add animated ui? Like a beating heart health ? And can you rotate the ui sprite to any degree easily? Like if I wanted diagonal ?

[@Marvin-t3e]

So the "margin" is basically the offset of respective control node? Edit: awesome video btw!

[@Padub_]

Hi, I'm new, Is it possible to make Diegestic UI in Godot and how good Godot for it?

[@lerincerna2976]

Simply the best ;)

[@NahomyUchija]

oh amazing really thanks

[@ooogaming2246]

TBH, I thought GDQuest stood for "GoDot Quest".

[@DiasFranciscoA]

Could you make a tutorial on creating a Tool to help on game creation... I got this idea because I saw a plugin that lets you create state machines with ease on Godot... and it had its own editor :) could you give developers like me a starting point to develop our own tools?

[@rueljaycariedo3477]

Can you make a Tutorial for RichText Emojis/Emoticons?

[@asdzxcvbqwerty]

Is it possible to create a worldspace (3D) UI like in Unity using this system?

[@vison360]

You can use viewport node for this. Check out the examples.

[@Gdquest]

Yes, you can put anything in a separate viewport in Godot, and render that viewport on a 2d plane (probably on a mesh too?) in a 3d scene.

[@henrique.campos]

Also on a sprite3D node

[@Nipah.Auauau]

7:21 "Thank you for watching, see you in the next one." But isn't this the last one? :?

[@Gdquest]

There's a stream tomorrow morning, and still 2 videos after that on Thursday and Friday as part of the current series.

[@Nipah.Auauau]

ah ok

[@marianobaldovino3332]

how can i set that godot theme ?

[@xcl9189]

suppose I am a vaccine developer , want to know how to develop a vaccine for some disease . what I should have known is what all the listed node is about and which node to choose from when I have a require , instead , what I must be known is here are the 5 most common nodes so use it already