I love using export var and the inspector but there are times when I really don't want to load everything into memory right away, so I tend to use UIDs, however good luck understanding which resource is it by looking at "uid://skdhfkjsab", so I created essentially a UID wrapper with the inspector UX

I imagine Rive getting very busy after this

Awesome! I was literally thinking about starting a group last night, didn’t know there’s one already. We should do a meetup!

Exactly just that! Usually you’d use SDF shape functions, e.g circle, rectangle, to morph, but it also works with flipbook

Also, I present THE WOBBLER! Basically if you've used Blender's F-curve modifiers then this will feel familiar- it's a node that lets you animate any value over time and then add sine wave on top of that, super helpful when you wanna iterate on jiggles/bounces/etc

A sprite sheet of a lightning bolt would work, but it looks cooler when you lerp between SDFs- you get visually interesting transitions between frames, AND because it's SDFs you don't need as many frames

That’s what I was going for. I imagined the the “trick” would’ve been cubemap or smth already baked to avoid transparent pipeline 🤭

No transparency?

Some time ago I played with a similar concept in GDScript for the same reason- too many manual steps to set up a custom inspector. At the same time I just love how simple writing a solution to that problem is, Godot is so hackable

I’m impressed how this article managed to use so many words to tell absolutely nothing

So crisp!

Don’t be silly, of course people are interested! (Blog post)

@gameengines.bsky.social could I get Godot and Unity labels please 🙏