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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · 27d

It's really fun playing around with stencil shaders in Godot 4.5 now.

It's incredible how simple masks can help create some awesome new effects now.

#Godot

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · 28d

Have you ever wonder how to draw textures in Godot?

I've just made a new tutorial on how to make your very own paint system. Check it out!

www.youtube.com/@octodemy

#Godot #GodotTips

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Got sidetracked while exploring how sub-viewports works in 2D.
When I realized, I had made this.

Had to make some funky code to take the photos of the background layer (which had bloom&brightness adjustments), the moving objects that didn't and also not screenshot the text.

#Godot

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Aug 12

While I was stress testing and playing around with procedural geometry in Godot, I found out you actually lose performance by calling floori() in gdscript.

And since discarding the decimal point is exactly what I want, I guess I'll just divide it normally then.

#GodotTips

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Experimenting with custom StyleBox'es in Godot, I've made a Stacked StyleBox that is very useful to create buttons.

Making a GOOD Drag and Drop Inventory

Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Agreed, I'm so dependent on this to orient myself in 3D that I had to make a godot addon just to add this to the engine so I could work in 3D scenes there.

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here's all the tricks to using Godot's Drag and Drop system
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUR1...

Creating complex 3D navigation | Fixing navmesh problems in Godot

Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 27

Got everything I wanted done using Godot's drag and drop system.

A tutorial will be coming out soon on how to use and solve all the problems I encountered along the way.

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 21

I think you already saw this by now, but I made a video tutorial going over the problems and solutions here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXEX...

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 21

I fell into the drag and drop system rabbit hole.

This is using the Godot's builtin drag drop solution.

There are some limitations, but I've found workarounds for them.
I'll make a quick video about it before I forget everything.

#godot

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 20

Here's a little prototype I made last month that led to those couple of RTS tutorials I made.

I was experimenting on how to code AI with state machines.

#godot

Creating complex 3D navigation | Fixing navmesh problems in Godot

Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Here's an quick overview on how to use the navmesh system in Godot.

And a few tips to make your agents move correctly on difficult terrain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXEX...

How to drag select units RTS style | Unit selection in 3D

Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 15

Last week, I found out I was using Godot's navmesh settings completely wrong while trying to fix ramp corners.

Now things finally makes more sense.

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Here's a tutorial on how to make RTS-style selection in Godot.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnL0...

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jul 6

Playing around with RTS things now.
Here's the unit selection working.

Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Jun 28

I make a lot of small projects that never see the light of day, so I'll post here what I'm currently doing just in case.

Last month or so I was playing with making a physics raycast car.

You can follow its progress and make your own with the tutorial series here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mqm...

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Octodemy @octodemy.bsky.social · Mar 17

2D fake walls can be achieved with only tilemap layer's custom data.... kinda.