A new version of the Inventory System is available. This version requires Godot Engine 4.3 and includes many refinements. New Drag and Drop system The Drag-and-Drop component has received a major overhaul. The previous system was quite complex and the separation of the classes that implemented the click-and-drag and click-and-release approaches had so much overlap …
I had a setup with nested CanvasLayer nodes. Toggling the visibility of the root CanvasLayer doesn’t hide any nested CanvasLayer nodes. My solution was to listen to the visibility_changed signal, find any CanvasLayer child nodes, and apply the same visibility to them.
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 …
Version 1.0 of the Inventory System is now available. It includes a few new additions since the closed beta: Lots of fixes found their way into this release as well:
Fire, Rain, and Black Hole particle effects
This video is from December last year and uses Godot 4.0-beta7, but I thought it was interesting, because… particle effects!
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A new version of the Inventory System is available. This version requires Godot Engine 4.3 and includes many refinements. New Drag and Drop system The Drag-and-Drop component has received a major overhaul. The previous system was quite complex and the separation of the classes that implemented the click-and-drag and click-and-release approaches had so much overlap …
Toggling Visibility of Nested CanvasLayers
I had a setup with nested CanvasLayer nodes. Toggling the visibility of the root CanvasLayer doesn’t hide any nested CanvasLayer nodes. My solution was to listen to the visibility_changed signal, find any CanvasLayer child nodes, and apply the same visibility to them.
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 …
Inventory System v1.0 available
Version 1.0 of the Inventory System is now available. It includes a few new additions since the closed beta: Lots of fixes found their way into this release as well: