Questions tagged [godot]
Godot is a 2D and 3D open source game engine developed by the Godot Engine community. It features a built-in development environment which runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and can create games targeting PC, mobile and web platforms.
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What's the correct way to use NavigationAgent3D in Godot?
I've just started using Godot and obviously fail to use NavigationAgent3D correctly. I've added a NavigationRegion and baked a ...
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How to drag and drop complex objects (with multilayered textures and text) in Godot?
Newbie to Godot here. My idea is to create a deck building game, inspired by Slay The Spire or Across the Obelisk. I have come to a problem that I can not seem to find the answer.
So, the card object ...
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What's a convenient way to setup two objects that physically "plug" into each other?
I'm making a puzzle game and I need two pieces that look like they fit together (like a DVI port and DVI plug). I want them to be two separate scenes because I want to place and animate them ...
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How to get nested child node without using full path in Godot?
How to get nested child node without using full path? I tried with just node name, it doesn't work.
The script is on top level so the path is quite long:
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How do I make a 3D cursor that follows the mouse in Godot?
I want to position a 3D object at my mouse cursor. How can I do that in Godot? In Unity, I'd use
Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint.
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Dialogue Manager Godot 4 Signals
When using the Dialogue Manager addon on Godot, I am trying to run a function to change the sprite of a character. My function look like this under my character script:
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How would I mask the player node out of a canvas shader?
I'm making a 3D game, and I want to create a post processing effect using a canvasitem and a colorrect, that effects everything on screen apart from the player. I already have the shader itself made, ...
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Changing the scale of a character and speed to match the perspective of a 2D background while traveling along the Y axis
I am making a 2D point and click game, just for fun.
I want to create some sense of perspective, so I am trying to change the scale of the player as he travels along the Y axis. Obviously, the speed ...
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Twin-stick backwards tank movement
I'm creating a 3D twin-stick tank game in Godot with C#. I have created the tank movement and rotation, separate of its turret, and it seems to be working properly.
The issue: I want the body of the ...
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Raycast suspension simulation rebounds car on landing
I'm expecting the car to land and engage the suspension to dampen the landing. The code I'm using currently has this effect:
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Explode image into component pixels shader
I'm currently stuck on trying to write a shader for Godot 4.x. and get it to look right.
I'd like to take an image, pixelate a bit so that particles are a bit chunky, and then explode it into ...
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How do I configure Godot 4.1.1 to use Rider as the IDE for C#?
I can't find out how to do this. I've installed the godot plugin into Rider.
I found two tutorials, one says to open Godot, and go into Project Settings and find Mono and change some settings. However ...
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How can I check if `call`, `callv` failed
In Godot, how can I check whether e.g. Call(...) or Callv(...) succeeded or failed?
By failed I mean due to e.g. missing method, ...
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Why is my Godot Scene referencing incorrect object instances?
After closing and reopening the Godot editor, objects in my scene reference the wrong resource. I have Wall nodes in my scene which reference the Wall.tscn at first, but once I close and open Godot, ...
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Sprite2D texture repeat switches from Mirror to Disabled when resizing window
In Godot 4, I set the texture repeat of a Sprite2D to 'Mirror',
When I run the game, it works fine except when I resize the window — then the texture repeat switches to 'disabled'.
Is there a ...
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JIttery rendering and ghost trail behind platformer character in Godot
I have no gamedev experience and I just started learning. I wanted to develop a basic platformer to learn.
I got stuck pretty soon with rendering in Godot. When I run the game, it just feels... ...
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Stay Upright Within Rotating Area
I am making a game that takes place in space and I want you to be able to stay upright in a spaceship even if it rotates. I have this set up:
Its a platform and an area that rotates. I have ...
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How to assign a Resource Array to a variable in Godot 4?
In Godot 3, you could do this:
export var (Array, Resource) test_variable
I tried to recreate this in Godot 4, but I could not figure out how. This is what I tried:...
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Detect intersections between an `AABB` and a `CollisionShape3D`
I thought this would be a simple matter of getting the mesh that defines the CollisionShape3D and checking if any of the triangles of the mesh intersect with the <...
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What is the difference between @onready and _ready()?
In Godot 4.x, is declaring @onready variable exactly the same as declaring it within the _ready() function?
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Y-Sorting Not Working Correctly
I am trying to use Y-Sorting on a tilemap tree to Y-Sort the whole tree, but it is Y-Sorting each tile of the tree instead of the tree as a whole:
I have tried adjusting the Y-Sort Origin but that ...
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Why can't I access my custom signal under the SignalName subclass when trying to emit it?
I have recently decided to start learning Godot after previously having experience with Unity, and am continuing with C# as my primary scripting language. While everything else regarding signals seems ...
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Two CollisionShape2D's Overlapping
I am trying to make a game in Godot 4.1.1 and I encountered a problem.
Whenever my player collides with the enemy, their collision shapes overlap and the enemy stays connected to the player.
Here's ...
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How do I spawn a secondary sword in the player hand when the player picks up a second sword from the floor?
I'm having trouble implementing a dual wielding system. I want to spawn a secondary sword in the player hand when the player picks up a second sword from the floor.
As of now I'm using an item ...
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Collapse/uncollapse a Tree in Godot 4 by clicking on the TreeItem?
Is there a way to collapse/uncollapse a Tree (Control) in Godot 4 by clicking on the TreeItem instead of the folding arrow?
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Can my game have multiple rendering APIs?
I don't care how much you insist that Graphic API doesn't matter, I've tested it and I've seen other people test and yes switching graphic API can literally half your FPS.... 50% of your FPS gone just ...
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Bullet not colliding with either plane or drone
i made a godot game in which theres a player and a drone, I got the shooting to work but when i tried to make it so that the bullet attacks the drone/player, it wasnt working properly. Basically i ...
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Generate a fully 3D NavigationRegion/pathfinding in Godot 4
I'm making a spaceship game where the enemies and the player have the full 6 degrees of freedom, so can move forward/backwards, left/right, up/down and can also rotate in all three axes. I'm wanting ...
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_ready(): Node not found: "Pivot/Camera" + player falls through the floor
I'm relatively new to Godot 4.0.3. I have two problems which seem to depend on each other so I put both of them into one single question.
I know, these issues have been reported multiple times on ...
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Is there a way to set custom data per cell in Godot 4?
My idea is to mark a cell as "occupied" when a character is in that cell doing something so no other character can be on that cell working.
My first thought was to set a ...
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How can I change the image used by a TileSet in Godot?
I have a tile set that uses an image. I want it to use a new image. The new image has a different name/path than the old image.
How do I tell the tile set to use the new image?
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I'm experiencing mesh pop-in on Godot 4.0.3 web export; how do I fix this?
I'm working on a game jam using Godot 4.0.3, and I'm intending to export to HTML5. The game works perfectly on native, but on a browser, meshes tend to pop-in when they're closer to the player than I ...
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How to remove plastic-like reflection from visual shader?
The problem is that this is a piece of terrain, it should not have blue reflections like it's made of plastic. But when the camera gets close enough, these specular highlights are rendered.
This is ...
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Using both look_at and flip_h in Godot
I am trying to have a player running in a side scroller platformer with its arms independent from its body, so that the arms can follow the mouse (to aim).
The issue is that when the character goes to ...
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Class in a class in Godot, how do you access things from the containing class?
I have a class inside a class. I would like the inner class to be able to access functions from the outer class. Something like what's below:
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How do I find and replace text with regex in Godot?
The way to find and replace text in javascript from regex is like so:
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How do I create and import a class in GDScript
I would like to create and import a class in GDScript. Here is some non-functional pseudo code to explain what I'm trying to do:
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How to access webcam in Godot on non-Apple platforms?
When I search for how to access the webcam in Godot, I find the CameraServer, but the docs say:
Note: This class is currently only implemented on macOS and iOS. On other platforms, no CameraFeeds ...
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What's the appropiate way to achieve composition in Godot?
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I think I still don't properly understand how composition in Godot works. So, as far as I know, you 'compose' stuff in Godot, right? Like, if you want to make a rock you create a mesh node with ...
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How can I make a 2D shader that darkens all sprites not in a certain area?
I was wondering if there was a way to make a 2D shader (or use any other method) to selectively black out areas of the screen that are not in a specific region.
I need this shader because in the game ...
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NPC resets when stepping on slope
this fella telleports back to spawn position every time it steps on a slope
artificial _physics_process called pc() and is being called by a timer every time the timer ticks, for this specific mob ...
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How do I render a pixel art game in a modern (scalable, smooth, crisp, hdpi friendly) way with Godot?
In modern pixel art games, one will usually find the following features:
dpi agnostic: Having an HDPI screen does not mean the game is tiny.
"large" pixels: Game-pixels are big, made up of ...
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applying gravity breaks entirely this AI movement code
I'm calling this function every 0.078 seconds so about at 13 fps using a timer connected to _ready()
this way my game can easily run over 400 enemy units with ...
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How can I make sprites and tile-sets interact with y-sort correctly in Godot?
Y-sort is not working how I would expect in Godot. I have a player sprite, their feet are at the origin. I have a y-sorted tile layer. The mushroom base is at the bottom of the tile, it doesn't ...
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How to efficiently detect targets for AI?
A creator named NovemberDev made this game without having performance in mind, yet his enemy AI, while being relatively simple, is still extremely fast: his game can have hundreds of enemies all ...
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How do I keep a node centered while animating scale in Godot?
When scale is modulated, the item scales from the top-left corner. I tried changing anchors preset to "center" but it still scaled from the top-left corner. How do I make it scale from ...
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loading data without deleting the tree node?
for now I'm using this autoload https://github.com/Ceisri/Godot-Action-Combat/blob/main/scripts/SaveState.gd,
it's from a tutorial, to save the position of entities, it deletes the entire scene and ...
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How to make sure my UI remains the same across multiple screens?
How to make sure my UI remains the same across multiple screens? I've looked at some tutorials, but they didn't seem to apply to my situation.
I tried the following, but they didn't resolve my problem:...
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how to move a mesh to be the child of another node?
if i import an item directly unto a bone attachment for some reason it becomes so small it is invisible even tho the bone attachment has a scale of 1 to 1 and was never re-sized
also the rotation is ...
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