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Building UIs in Godot 4
Here’s a collection of tutorials that are helpful if you’re new to using Control and Container nodes to create UIs in Godot 4.
The Game Dev Artisan video covers creating a simple UI with a reload indicator for a simple 2D tank game:
Clear Code’s 11+ hour Ultimate Introduction to Godot 4 has a chapter on User interfaces that is pretty good (as is the rest of the video).
Godotneers’ Godot UI Basics video is quite comprehensive and covers most of there is to know in 45 minutes:
Abra’s video covers creating Godot UI themes in under 10 minutes:
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