The latest version includes a few new enhancements, and an experiment: The sequencer demo uses inventory instances to hold music notes, which can be played back. This was inspired by music trackers that were popular in the 90s, such as Scream Tracker and Impulse Tracker. The sequencer isn’t meant to be a production-ready digital audio workstation replacement. It’s a proof of concept, but it does show off the flexibility of the inventory system.
I’ve transcribed a track I created in Ableton Live about a decade ago. This is included in the Inventory System demo project:
The features:
Added a GGInventorySimpleUI with fewer bells and whistles.
GGInventory now supports multiple sorting strategies, which the UI automatically picks up
Stack splitting with middle mouse button or action input
A new sequencer demo that uses inventories to hold track notes in item data.
Of course, we also have bug fixes:
Expiration extension handles scenes without an owner (such as dynamically assembled scenes)
Inventory allows setting the scroll container’s custom minimum size
The Inventory UI correctly selects the configured view upon start
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.
In this 2018 GDC session, Spry Fox‘s Daniel Cook explains how to keep human beings from being treated as interchangeable, disposable, or abusable when designing multiplayer games. If you’re developing, or thinking about developing a multiplayer game, this is a great talk to better understand the challenges of designing multiplayer interactions that result in more …
Development snapshot #4 of Godot Engine 4.1 is here. Among many other changes, it fixes a lighting issue related to using Light-only mode in CanvasItemMaterial (#44559). Unfortunately, it also introduced a UX issue with gradient color pickers (#77745), which makes it quite difficult to work with gradients at all. If you use gradients, I recommend …
Inventory System v1.8 available
The latest version includes a few new enhancements, and an experiment: The sequencer demo uses inventory instances to hold music notes, which can be played back. This was inspired by music trackers that were popular in the 90s, such as Scream Tracker and Impulse Tracker. The sequencer isn’t meant to be a production-ready digital audio workstation replacement. It’s a proof of concept, but it does show off the flexibility of the inventory system.
I’ve transcribed a track I created in Ableton Live about a decade ago. This is included in the Inventory System demo project:
The features:
Of course, we also have bug fixes:
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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