Gamedev and software tutorials
I’m currently developing an unannounced video game in the Godot engine. To bring my vegetation to life, I needed a vertex shader that allows me to have trees sway in the wind and have their branches move at the tips. This article gives a rough overview over my approach. It’s not a detailed tutorial, but […]
This Godot Engine tutorial explains how to create enums, compare enum values, get enum items and their names and how to format them. What are enums? Enum is short for “enumeration”. Enums are often used for selecting something from a list, where every item is mutually exclusive. Some examples: Enums are created like this: You […]
Using the .escn exporter for Blender (wiki page, download) allows you to easily reuse materials for multiple meshes in Godot. However, when you move or rename materials that are referenced by an .escn file (or a scene that contains an .escn file), the link to the material breaks and you see an error similar to […]
rotation_degrees, transform.basis and quaternions If you want to rotate a character towards a point, there are three popular methods you can use: modifying the character’s rotation_degrees.y value, changing the transform.basis or using quaternions. This tutorial will show you how the transform.basis approach works. The transform.basis property of any Spatial node (or nodes that inherit from […]
If you have ever created custom classes by using class_name MyCustomClass in one of your scripts you might have noticed that these classes don’t return their custom class name when you use get_class() or is_class() on them. This tutorial will show you two solutions to this problem. Let’s say you have a Player.gd script that […]
This tutorial is also available as a Guide on Steam. This tutorial will teach you how to prepare tilesets in Blender for export to Godot, how to use the .escn exporter for Blender and how to configure the tileset in Godot in a way that allows easy updating if your meshes change later on. Our […]
The explanation of range remapping in this article is universally applicable to every use case where value remapping is required. Towards the end of this article we’ll take a look at how to implement the formula as a function in the Godot game engine. If you are just here to understand how range remapping works […]
This tutorial explains how to create exported variables that reference nodes and how to combine this with static typing. Why using $ or get_node() is problematic To get a reference to a node in your node tree, you can use the $ sign followed by the node’s path. In a setup like on the next […]
This quick tutorial shows you how to use multiple raycasts in the same physics frame in the Godot Engine. This is useful for raycast (also called hitscan) weapons like shotguns that fire multiple pellets at the same time. Here’s the problem: by default, this doesn’t work in Godot and only the last of multiple raycast […]
