Or, in other words, the first addons I have ported from the pure GDScript addons, which are for Godot 3.2+, into a GDExtension, which is for Godot 4.3+!

At this point not all addons have been ported, at least yet. Some of them are in the "TODO" list, while some others are under evaluation regarding if it's actually still relevant to have a plugin for the provided functionality. Yet, there are a few additional functionality in the GDExtension over the old addons.

As usual, there is a "tutorial" set that can be found here. Full source code can be found on Github.

Happy forging!

To kick things off, I'm releasing a new Godot addon, the Radial Impulse, which adds two new nodes (one for 2D and the other for 3D). The nodes are used to apply impulses into all rigid bodies that are within their circular/spherical area. The animation bellow is from the 2D demo.

How to use and how it works, as usual, can be found here and the addon itself in this GitHub repository.

OK yes, I know, those new nodes are still for the Godot 3 branch. I'm working on the Godot 4 port of the relevant addons as GDExtension. Several of them are fully ported. However there is an issue with the UI theme system that is somewhat preventing me from kicking off the extension thing.

That said, I wish for all the best for everyone in 2024. And, happy forging!

I do delve into it a little bit more about the entire thing in this newer blog post. But in short, out of the blue, Nuxt simply started to spit error messages instead of my page.

I have updated some of the Godot tutorials. The reason? Godot 4 did change a lot and the information was no longer entirely valid. Some of those tutorials now have instructions for both Godot 3 and Godot 4.

PS: If lots of new entries in your RSS reader were triggered, I'm deeply sorry for this.

The navigation bar has been updated to link into that section.

Happy forging!

In order to help with audio playback without having to worry about node lifetime, I created the Audio Master addon. How to use it can be found here. As usual, the addon itself can be found in this GitHub Repository.

So, I decided to create an Editor Plugin meant to deal with resources of this kind, the Data Asset plugin. A preview of the plugin in the animation bellow, which showcases rearranging elements of an array of custom scripted resources:

Yet, editing numerical properties were not exactly close to the editor provided within the Inspector panel. Granted, the editor uses a Control named EditorSpinSlider, which is not fully exposed to scripting. So, I decided to also create a Control that implements something similar to that, which is provided as the SpinSlider. A preview of the widget:

As usual, I have a tutorial for each of the two new addons. The SpinSlider information can be found here. As for the Data Asset, it's here.

Based on the answer I wanted to tackle the subject, so I wrote a new "Tutorial" here. It's a very short text and hopefully it should be enough to help understand when to use which.

By the way, here is Lucy's Youtube channel.

In order to avoid having to continue re-implementing the side panel I decided to create a generic one and turn it into an addon. And here it is!

As usual, you can find the addon itself on my Github repository

A dedicated tutorial for it can be found here <nuxt-link to="/tutorials/multi/GodotAddonPack/part05">here</nuxt-link>.

A quick preview of this Control in action is shown bellow:

With this, the RSS feed generation is different and it probably have triggered a lot of "new" posts within some (if not all) aggregators. If that's the case, please know I'm deeply sorry for that! On the bright side, I believe the new feed generator does a better job than what I was doing previously.

Nevertheless, with this new update I also bring 3 (or maybe two and a half) Godot Addons.

The first one is a base class meant to serve as starting point to create custom widget Controls for Godot. It basically deals with the theme system in order to automatically expose styling entries to the Inspector for easier overriding. With this, custom controls can somewhat behave like any other core Control when attempting to override the theme of a single Control within the editor.

The second one is a UI Control (TabularBox) meant to allow viewing and editing of tabular data, providing means to create custom columns for dealing with specific value types. As an example, one of the columns provided with the pack allows rendering thumbnails of texture resources assigned to cells.

Finally, a Database addon that includes an editor plugin to create and manage in game databases. This plugin uses the TabularBox Control in order to allow editing and viewing of the data. This addon also provides means for a column to reference another table within the database, which could be really useful. Also, it does integrate into it the Weighted Random Selection With Godot technique for easier random picking rows from the tables.

As usual, those addons have tutorials to explain how to use them.

So, this is the nuxt generation of my site. Hopefully I didn't break anything during the migration process!

The result should be something like this:

The tutorial itself can be found here.

Happy forging!

Note that there is a little bit of the synchronization code to showcase the proposed code architecture in practice, although this part of the tutorial uses my Network Addon.

The dedicated server tutorial can be found here.

Happy forging!

The tutorial can be found here.

Happy forging!

Some of the feature highlights are:

• Bags automatically handle multiple slots and items. The amount of columns and rows can be specified from the Inspector.
• Items can span across multiple rows and columns.
• Special slots can be linked in order to easily manage "two handed weapons".
• Special slots use internal filters to automatically allow or deny specified items.
• A completely custom drag & drop system in order to allow for a finer control over when and how to start/end the process.
• Items can have sockets.
• Items on a bag can be automatically sorted.
• Saving/loading inventory state into/from JSON data (binary support is in the TODO).
• Inventory bag can be expanded or shrinked without affecting item placement.
• Special slots can override maximum stack sizes to create specialized storing systems.

There is the OverlayDebugInfo script that provides means to quickly add text into the screen without the need to create UI controls all over the place. The resulting panel will expand/shrink according to its contents.

The addon pack tutorial has been updated to explain things about this new addon.

The addon pack itself can be found on my GitHub Repository.

Happy forging!

There is the OverlayDebugInfo script that provides means to quickly add text into the screen without the need to create UI controls all over the place. The resulting panel will expand/shrink according to its contents.

And the DebugLine3D, which helps with the task of drawing lines in 3D.

The addon pack tutorial has been updated to explain things about this new addon.

The addon pack itself can be found on my GitHub Repository.

Happy forging!

The addon pack tutorial has been updated (more specifically the first page) to explain things about this new addon.

The addon pack itself can be found on my GitHub Repository.

Happy forging!

The image bellow gives an example of the control in action:

The addon pack tutorial has been updated with a new page for user interface addons, which for the moment contains information only for the FancyLineEdit.

And the addon pack itself can be found on my GitHub Repository.

Happy forging!

I also created a set of tutorials to accompany the addons. Those can be found here. Each page of this tutorial corresponds to one addon and contains two major sections, one explaining the basics of using the addon and the other a little bit of how it internally work.

Finally, if you have visited my web page before, you will probably notice it now has a completely new layout. In the navigation bar there is a toggle button allowing you to switch between dark and light theme. And this new layout will adjust to work on smaller screens. Just don't expect snippets of code to be easily readable.

Anyway, I hope this new layout is OK'ish enough and that you find this addon pack useful! Happy forging!

Anyway, it's finally here, More Networking with Godot. In this new tutorial I cover the following topics:

• Fixes to some of the oversights of the first tutorial.
• Very basic authoritative server setup.
• Latency simulation and measurement.
• Snapshot interpolation.
• Player kicking from the server.
• Chat system.

Truly hope you find it useful!

Right at its beginning, two Unreal Engine tutorials. A huge one, teaching how to create a 2D game, from start to "finish", named uColumns. The other tutorial is small and shows some ways to create custom C++ classes within an Unreal project. It can be found here.

I have also started the blog section with some Markdown impracticalities that I have found while working on this website.

That is my warm welcome to the forge!

That's not the case for this site. As an example, I created the "card" system to layout the tutorials, news and blog entries. Those cards require quite a bit of nested <div></div> contents. After searching a bit about this specific case, people suggested to directly use the tags within the markdown file. Well, honestly that already defeats the purpose of the format. But, there is another problem. Nesting tags like that will somewhat "force" indentation in order to make the source readable. Well, depending on the markdown interpreter, it will trigger the <code>...</code> tag, forcing to remove the readability of the text.