Per feedback, we’ve exposed more inventory user interface component signals to make it easier to react to slot/item interactions with custom logic.
New features:
Item-level focus signals are exposed via the GGInventoryUI component
Print information when inventory was saved in the simple inventory persistence script.
In addition, these bug fixes are included:
Correction to dropping items from the inventory due to resizing
The inventory controller only sets the custom_minimum_size on the slot if the property is present
The Inventory System Deep Dive and Architecture Guide helps game developers implement advanced multiplayer inventories using Godot Engine. The PDF Guide contains over 500 pages of code walkthroughs, diagrams, and explains concepts related to inventories, items, and more.
Godot Engine 4.0 has been released per official announcement. With version 4.0, Godot has gone through “3+ years of breaking and rebuilding from the ground up, a complete core overhaul and a full engine rewrite, through 17 alphas, 17 betas and 6 release candidates“. The announcement post is credited to “2000+ Godot contributors.” It’s a …
Any sufficiently large code base needs documentation. Documentation tends to come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Among them are high-level architecture and design docs, class and method interface documentation, and inline comments to explain optimized or complex algorithms so the reader doesn’t have to parse the logic in their head (often, this is …
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 …
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Inventory System v1.6 available
Per feedback, we’ve exposed more inventory user interface component signals to make it easier to react to slot/item interactions with custom logic.
New features:
In addition, these bug fixes are included:
The Inventory System Deep Dive and Architecture Guide helps game developers implement advanced multiplayer inventories using Godot Engine. The PDF Guide contains over 500 pages of code walkthroughs, diagrams, and explains concepts related to inventories, items, and more.
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