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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 2d

My son is a big world box fan, actually! Cool to be connected now!

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Hugo Vaz 💠 Worldbox @hgvaz.bsky.social · Aug 30

🐧Hello Bluesky community! Finally some fresh air! Making my debut here, my name is Hugo, I make art for games, from UI to characters, logos to capsule illustrations. Working in Worldbox and Behold Studios. Would appreciate a repost. 💕 www.artstation.com/hgvaz
#gameart #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 3d

So, I never have a creative thought in my life, but in a father/son banter-session a thought suddenly came to me:
"Celeste, but you climb Tetris blocks _you_ control!" 🤔☺️
...and that my friend, is why I won't quit my day job.

#gamedev #solodev

godotengine.org/asset-librar...

youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

A to Z Explainer Deep Dive Edition - Tutorial for Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - a plugin for Godot 4

YouTube video by René van der Ark

youtu.be

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 3d

Glue a Node2D to a point in your ScalableVectorShape2D!

This change I was postponing for months because it seemed so hard to me, but actually in #GodotEngine this only costs you 23 lines of gdscript:

github.com/Teaching-mys...

#gamedev #opensource #indiegames #godot #plugin #svg

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, bluesky still seems to struggle with svg files.

Anyway,

✨️What the alt-text says! ✨️

Watch the new A-Z explainer, deep dive edition!

youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

#gamedev #opensource #indiegames #vector #svg #godot #plugin #2d #polygons #bézier #curves #animation #keyframes #hashtags #gdscript

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - release 2.17.0

Brings flippin' shape flipping!

And 2.16.3 brought uniform scaling, translating, and rotating!

The rest of the week was gobbled up by this new explainer, which features them:

Link to the explainer and some hash tags.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 9d

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks to recording this long form explainer I spotted 3 new bugs, of which 2 are regressions of sorts.

github.com/Teaching-mys...

I'll be tackling those the coming spare hours. The joy of development after long hours of sweating on a video and hearing the icky sound of my own voice 😅

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 8d

The A-Z Explainer Deep Dive took 70 hours to edit!
youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D is in the godot asset library:
godotengine.org/asset-librar...

And on Gadget Godot:
www.gadgetgodot.com/u/svs-2d-mkr...

Find it on Github:
github.com/Teaching-mys...

#gamedev #godot #opensource

A to Z Explainer Deep Dive Edition - Tutorial for Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - a plugin for Godot 4

YouTube video by René van der Ark

youtu.be

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks!

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 8d

The A-Z Explainer Deep Dive took 70 hours to edit!
youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D is in the godot asset library:
godotengine.org/asset-librar...

And on Gadget Godot:
www.gadgetgodot.com/u/svs-2d-mkr...

Find it on Github:
github.com/Teaching-mys...

#gamedev #godot #opensource

A to Z Explainer Deep Dive Edition - Tutorial for Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - a plugin for Godot 4

YouTube video by René van der Ark

youtu.be

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 9d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 10d

I have to admire these video people. It takes me a week to edit my ramblings back from 45 minutes of audio to 15 minutes (mostly cutting out seconds long uhmmmmmm silences 🫢)

Then adding screen recordings to it, painstakingly browsing my own amateur work or a cc0 logo to mess around with.

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 12d

The animation baking feature will be featured in the re-recording of the A-Z Explainer as well as the Epic about re-recording the A-Z explainer.

#gamedev #godot #plugin #opensource #svg #vector

Record A-Z explainer again (epic, in progress)

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J4mie_C4lrk. Ⓥ @jamieclark.bsky.social · Aug 2

Wow, it's Holiday Hooligan!
This is the game I've been working awhile now.
It's an X-mas themed platformer about Santa having to get past booby trapped homes to deliver gifts, wow.

I've done a bad job marketing this, so I'm going to try now and do better how over on the bluesky.
#godot #gamedev

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 14d

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D Addon for Godot 4.4 - New Transform Buttons!

🤞 godotengine.org/asset-librar... 🤞

Get release 2.16.0 early!

On Github: github.com/Teaching-mys...

On Gadget: www.gadgetgodot.com/u/svs-2d-mkr...

Music by: @not-jam.itch.io

#gamedev #godot #opensource #draw #vectorshapes

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 14d

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D Addon for Godot 4.4 - New Transform Buttons!

🤞 godotengine.org/asset-librar... 🤞

Get release 2.16.0 early!

On Github: github.com/Teaching-mys...

On Gadget: www.gadgetgodot.com/u/svs-2d-mkr...

Music by: @not-jam.itch.io

#gamedev #godot #opensource #draw #vectorshapes

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 15d

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D is looking for code reviewers again!

github.com/Teaching-mys... - Implement uniform translate, rotate and scale.

It's all free under #MIT, so nothing I can guarantee! (Without your help that is! ✨)

#foss #gamedev #godot #plugin #indiegames

These are the buttons you could be reviewing! Of course I can help out, just ask a question via the comments on github.

Things to expect:

The idea is to extend the top button bar above the 2D viewport with some new toggle buttons, when a ScalableVectorShape2D is selected.

Button requirements:
These buttons will only be enabled when Select Mode (Q) is active.
When Select Mode (Q) is activated, the default editing toggle button is automatically activated
These buttons will all be part of the same button group
Take inspiration from inkscape for iconography
Subtasks:

Add a default editing toggle button, activated by default when Select Mode is activated, everything will work the same as now

Add a Uniform Translate button (effectively the same moving the 'pivot'):

left click+drag moves all the points around

respects the pixel snap setting to simplify dragging along x- or y-axis

Add a Uniform Rotate button to rotate all the points around their 'pivot' or natural center (default is the 'pivot')

holding ctrl will rotate them with units of 5°

holding shift will rotate then around their natural center in stead of around their origin (nice to have?)

Add a Uniform Scale button to move all the points towards / away from their 'pivot' or natural center (default=pivot)

holding shift will make them move away from their their natural center in stead of their pivot

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks much for your demo! I'll be sure to clip it in somewhere.

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe I could invite you to also record a bit of your workflow like described for this epic here? Only maybe in your case: how do you normally work with Skeletons in 2D:
github.com/Teaching-mys...

Alternatively, if you managed it, maybe you could open a pull request or share a gist?

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 15d

🤩so cool!

René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 15d

...I have small kids.

René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 15d

...sfw mind you :-D

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 15d

Spread the word! I would love it to get some recordings on how people are actually using it. I literally have _no_ idea.

I would like to add these examples to the youtube playlist, so if you're not too shy maybe you'd like to be the first?

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Peter Kwint @peterkwint.bsky.social · 16d

‘Waarom kan dit kabinet niet zeggen wat er aan de hand is? Dat er fascisten door onze straat lopen.’ @jimmydijk.sp.nl tijdens het Vragenuur.

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 17d

Another week time-sharing:
- day job
- partner'n'dad-hood
- and ... ✨Scalable Vector Shapes 2D✨!

Check out the uniform transform (and mesh tool?!) epic from github!

github.com/Teaching-mys...

I hid some famous last words on there too.

Contributors are always welcome!

#gamedev #godot #plugin

Uniform transform tool
The idea is to extend the top button bar above the 2D viewport with some new toggle buttons, when a ScalableVectorShape2D is selected here:

Image
Button requirements
These buttons will only be enabled when Select Mode (Q) is active.
When Select Mode (Q) is activated, the default editing toggle button is automatically activated
These buttons will all be part of the same button group
Take inspiration from inkscape for iconography
Subtasks:

Add a default editing toggle button, activated by default when Select Mode is activated, everything will work the same as now

Add a Uniform Translate button (effectively the same moving the 'pivot'):

left click+drag moves all the points around

shift+leftclick+drag moves along either the x- or y-axis just like with the node-translate tool Move Mode (W)

Add a Uniform Rotate button to rotate all the points around their 'pivot' or natural center (default is the 'pivot')

holding ctrl will rotate them with units of 5°

holding shift will rotate then around their natural center in stead of around their origin (nice to have?)

Add a Uniform Scale button to move all the points towards / away from their 'pivot' or natural center (default=natural center)

holding shift will make the scale-amount equal for x- and y- (just like with the Scale Mode (S)

holding control will make them move away from their 'pivot' in stead of from their natural center

Add a flip horizontal and a flip vertical button (not part of the toggle group)
Copy / Duplicate options under the tab "Advanced"
The idea here is that these buttons can be used to 'deep-copy' a ScalableVectorShape2D branch in the scene tree. Effectively this means that the path describing resource-properties (curve and arc_list) are deep-copied for each ScalableVectorShape2D node in the entire branch (see also #200)

Add a duplicate button, which deep copies all the ScalableVectorShape2D nodes in the selected branch
...

My new button icons as ScalableVectorShape2D nodes after an SVG import.

This is definitely way above my paygrade.

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