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Not sure if good or not, but might be interesting for people trying to switch from Unity.

I'm trying to make an action where the player can pick up and throw a rigidbody3d. I want the object to act like a rigidbody when not in the player's hands, but when it is, I want to set the rigidbody position to match a marker3d which is a child of the player.

What's the best approach to something like this? Should I be using integrate forces here? I'm not sure I really understand when and when not to use it.

In case you're suddenly facing the task of porting an entire game over due to capitalist nonsense or something

@godot's timing on announcing the development fund is just *chef's kiss*. The landing page was out there without announcement for some time, I guess they simply took the opportunity as they should have :)

I made a blog post about my experience switching from Unity to Godot earlier this year, and some tips for Unity devs.

I'm struggling with adding nodes to the scene without a frame or two dropping for larger scenes. What are the chances that it will ever have some sort of threaded version, so that it just adds the node in the background while the main thread can continue displaying them graphics?

They're free to use commercially, and some of them are pretty neat if you want to show off support for the engine in your game. Preview image:

Hi everyone, I was hoping someone could help me with the following. I have a button that saves a screenshot PNG to the Downloads folder when you press it.

What I want is for the button to disappear after it is pressed, so the screenshot does not include the two menu buttons called "%SaveReport" and "%BackMainMenu".

The code for the save button is listed below:

`

func _on_SaveReport_pressed():

$"%SaveReport".visible = false

$"%BackMainMenu".visible = false

print("I've disabled the buttons")
print("That means the screenshot SHOULD be button free")

take_screenshot()

$"%SaveReport".visible = true
$"%BackMainMenu".visible = true

`

As you can see, it calls the take_screenshot() function which is listed above:

`

func take_screenshot(): image = get_viewport().get_texture().get_image()

if OS.get_name() == "Web" or OS.has_feature('JavaScript'):
	print("We're on the web")
	# We're on the web		

	image.clear_mipmaps()

	var buffer = image.save_png_to_buffer()
	JavaScriptBridge.download_buffer(buffer, fileName)

if OS.get_name() != "Web" or !OS.has_feature('JavaScript'):
	# We're not on the web
	print("We're not on the web")
	
	var docs = OS.get_environment("HOME") + "/Documents"
	
	var title = str(docs + "/results",global_ints.observed_person_name, global_ints.observation_minutes,".png")
	
	print(title)
	
	var _saveimage = image.save_png(title)
	
	if OS.get_name() != "OSX":
		print("We're not on MacOS")
		var _openfolder = OS.shell_open(docs)
	
	if OS.get_name() == "OSX":
		print("We're on MacOS")
		
		var _openfolder = OS.shell_open("file://" + docs)

`

The code works. The screenshot is taken and it's saved to the Downloads folder and MacOS/Windows/Linux open up the Downloads folder straight after.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why the Back & Screenshot buttons ( "%SaveReport" and "%BackMainMenu") that I turn invisible BEFORE I call take_screenshot() end up being in the screenshot. Every single time.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

Pretty much as I described in my toot (text copied here). Is anyone aware of what I may need to fix to get this plugin to work again?

I'm hoping someone can help me with a Godot engine question. With the Q&A forum being read-only, I'm hoping Lemmy people can answer this one for me.

I'm trying to use this plugin for HTML5 downloads in Godot 4.1:

https://github.com/Pukkah/HTML5-File-Exchange-for-Godot

It's for Godot 3.4, but I've upgraded my projects and want to stay in 4.1.

Currently, it throws an error “Identifier JavaScript not defined in scope” (see screenshot).

Would anyone have an idea on what to fix here? Thanks!

I'm trying to make something in 2d where once the player reaches the end of the level, they're back at the beginning and it just keeps going like that. I could imagine how this could be done in terms of setting the player position, but if I have a scrolling parallax background, how would I make that match up reliably?

I've been looking into some tutorials, mainly this one - https://www.gotut.net/custom-key-bindings-in-godot-4/

My particular problem is that this and every other tutorial of key rebind only deals with 1 action = 1 keybind, while I want my actions to have 3 keybinds: 2 from the keyboard, 1 from a controller. Because of that, I can't simply empty the InputMap of a given action and add the newly pressed key.

After quite some time thinking and testing, I've managed to cobble together this code (based on the one from the link above) that works as I want: it removes the previous keybind and adds the new one, without messing any of the previous keys.

func _input(event):
	if !current_button:
		return
	if event is InputEventKey and $keypress.visible:
		var action: String
		match current_button.name:
			"rebind_jump":
				action = "game_jump"
		#Match repeat for each button/action, also "duplicated" for each of the alternative keys/buttons, as "alt_game_jump", etc
		#The following lines happen after the match defines the action 
		rebind(event,action, current_button.text)
		current_button.text = event.as_text()
		current_button = null


## The rebind function is called by sending the event, a string of the action proper and the button's current text as the "oldkey"
## rebind(event, "game_jump", $rebind_jump.text)
## After the event call, the button's text is set like this: $rebind_jump.text = event.as_text()

func rebind(event: InputEvent, action: String, oldkey:String):
	var existing : Dictionary = {}
	var key: String
	for ia in InputMap.action_get_events(action):
		#The split(" ") below happens because physical key presses are sent as "E (Phyisical)" or "Ctrl (Physical)"
		if ia.as_text().split(" ")[0] != "Joypad":
			key = ia.as_text().split(" ")[0]
		else:
			key = ia.as_text()
		existing[key] = ia
	for acts in InputMap.get_actions():
		#Removes the key from any other events 
		InputMap.action_erase_event(acts, event)
	InputMap.action_erase_event(action, existing[oldkey])
	InputMap.action_add_event(action, event)

While it works as is for keyboard rebind, I haven't tested it with a controller, as I don't have one around to test.

But my main question is: is this "ideal"? Is there a better/easier way to do this, rebind an action substituting only one key?

EDIT: Did a few tweaks on the code. One thing that I haven't figured out yet is a way to update a key that was already bound to another button. For example: if "Ctrl" is bound to jump, and I bind it to attack, it automatically unbinds from jump. If I then try to bind anything to that specific jump button, I'll get a Invalid Index error at the InputMap.action_erase_event(action, existing[oldkey])

I was seeing a video on common tricks FPS games use, and one of them was having the weapon render on a higher and/or separate layer to avoid having it clip with other objects in the world. How would something like this be done in Godot?