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Finally figured it out, and OOF! It's because Godot's property setters aren't called if the property is left at the default value! This is a pretty common gotcha, so watch out!
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Screenshot of a round ice isle in the middle of a stylized ocean.

I have a scene in my project called "isle_zero" which serves as a controlled environment where I fix bugs and work the kinks out of features. And whenever I do, I say "Cleanup on isle zero!" I find it hilarious and it makes boring work a bit more tolerable.
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Outlook for the new year ...

I’ll see yall next year ✨

Like so: the base textures have UV1, and another texture with transparency is used for expressions on UV2, blinking and some speech. Most game engines reserve UV2 for lightmap uvs though

Fun tip: you can have more than 1 uv layout/channel for a mesh and with some very simple shader magic, you can use those uv maps to layer textures on top of eachother. Older N64 and ps1 games (N64 pokemon for example) used this technique for all the facial animations.

For Blender specifically, selecting sharp edges, mark seams and then an angle-based uv unwrap can win you a lot of the battle. For straightening UVs (like for a pipe), 'Follow Active Quads' is a massive time saver. You just need a face with with aligned UVs for the isĺand to follow

There's lots of little things about UV unwrapping and what tips work well depend on your software of choice but 2 big things that help are: keeping consistant texel density (How many pixels a mesh face has), and a good uv layout can save you work texturing in some cases

Big Flan Friday

Okay but y tho

My friend @tomnomnom.bsky.social made this very good album cover from a pic I snapped

Me when Godot does a thing I don't quite understand.

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Feelin' 4 u dawg

Environmental storytelling. #gamedev

Also here's the raw video of this render, probably the last time I'll use this specific model for a while.

SILKSONG IS OFFICALLY OUT; can't wait to play it!!! #Silksong

ATTENTION WORLD:

The character of Batman is one step away from a Luchador; and as such, should be played by a Luchador in their next live-action incarnation.

THAT IS ALL!

I never lost hope! NEVER DOUBTED FOR A MINUTE! THE SILKSONG IS REAL!!!!

In light of recent announcements, I must make a confession.

I remember Hornet being void; that part was pretty clear at least.

YouTube video by Team Cherry Title: Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Trailer

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available September 4 on all platforms and day one on Xbox Game Pass!

Watch the release trailer: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

experimenting with lighting in godot again

Guess whos at Olive Garden for @sixcents.bsky.social Bday???? #blessed #mymeatballs

Added basic collision to the guitar. Didn't anticipate that it would push back violently against the NPC's belly (and vice versa), creating this bug which looks pretty decent as a guitar-playing animation. 🤣
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Tired of manually matching collision to a mesh in #GodotEngine? Or constantly creating new nodes with the built-in collision generation feature? I made an addon that automatically syncs collision with meshes, with lots of neat features. Grab it here: github.com/CozyCubeGame...
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Some gamedevs need to understand that in a multidisciplinary field like ours, disciplines other than your own are not a "barrier". Your refusal or inability to learn or hire are not symptomatic of others "gatekeeping" you.

Looks awesome!

YouTube video by Thomas Murphy You Shouldn't Have Seen This #partybusiness #indiegame

This is the short in question, just some gameplay of Party Business Supreme: youtube.com/shorts/rOpU_...

A grey screencapture of the youtube info. 1646 views, 1 comment, 6 likes taking up 100.0%

So I've been going down the YouTube Shorts rabbit hole a little (trying to improve my video editing skills), and my dislikes suddenly vanished from my most popular short? They were there a few hours ago, now they're just 'gone'?

Check em out! Give em a share!
I really appreciate it!

ko-fi.com/aviatoranima...

btw in case you missed it godot will now automagically create a searchable command palette command for any named editor script in your project!

this is one of the most important recent engine features because [1/3]