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Add translation preview in editor by timothyqiu · Pull Request #96921 · godotengine/godot Follow-up to #96230 Closes godotengine/godot-proposals#8171 Allow previewing the edited scene in the specified locale. Peek.2024-09-13.00-48.mp4 The 2D viewport...

Godot 4.5 will have localization previews in editor! I've been trying out localization and was missing this feature, so I'm glad it's getting added very soon

github.com/godotengine/...

I have a small cheapo amazon one and... It works. It's not great, but it removes dust from my computer decently well.

Unfortunately my computer has a seemingly unremovable layer from when I was doing construction & did a poor job of protecting the computer from the dust, which it doesn't remove 🙃

You can cap the values to the screen size to get the point where you should show the indicator, and find the rotation also through that point.

Sorry if you've tried all this, just brainstorming a bit.

Maybe a bit naive of me but, another thing to check if you haven't already:
I just tested Camera.unproject_position, and it returns negative values if above or to the left of the viewport and values past screen size. Could you simplify the code using that? It's a cpp call, so maybe fast?

I know you said time slicing makes the indicators run at a lower fps, but if you can delay the position updates a few frames, you could in theory interpolate every frame, but update the target position only every x frames, assuming that's causing some of the bottleneck.

Maybe too simple of a solution, but you could try splitting how many indicators you update per frame? I imagine you don't need the updates to occur every single frame for every single indicator.

@romerogames.bsky.social has 2 games on Steam right now you can buy if you want to help support them.

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Beautiful read, summarizing perfectly some of the hardest challenges with freelancing.

"And we buckle down again—what other choice do we have? We conjure more hours. We work harder. And our work is still enjoyable. But sometimes we ask ourselves is it worth it? Are we earning what we’re worth?"

Jinx was just as excited as me, if not more!

9 editions late, but my first @debugmag.com arrived! Excited to get into it :)

Also using thunderbird, in an effort to de-google. Took me a while to get used to it, but now the simple UI and the fact you can connect multiple accounts just kinda clicked.

It's definitely not perfect, there's things I wish I could do, but it works well enough for me!

Screenshot of the r/Godot post mentioned by passivestar

Funnily enough, I can still see and open your post. I scrolled a bit and it showed up.

Can your towers & troops hold back the Empire’s massive hordes? ⚔️

Dawn of Defense is a roguelite tower defense game with RTS elements. Build towers to hold the trenches and lead your warriors to reclaim your lands from the Empire.

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Screenshot of Dawn of Defense. There is an island surrounded by trenches. On the island there are trees, buildings, and a large stone tower with a blue light beam coming out of the top. The tower has a door that leads to the trenches. There is also a game UI, showing one of the selected buildings.

Here's a screenshot from Dawn of Defense, an RTS + Tower Defense game I'm working on with the amazing people at @6side-studio.bsky.social!

'100 Game Design Tips & Tricks' by DARQ developer Wlad Marhulets seems like a pretty great free ebook.

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I'm making an explosive incremental train-building game called Trainatic! store.steampowered.com/app/3208560/...

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Fair enough! I'll check them out :)

I think I already follow a few, but please do share! :)

I'm on a mission to find indie game developers using OpenStreetMap!

We want to feature their work at @osmus.bsky.social. How can I connect with this community?

Is there a hashtag or feed for Game Dev knowledge sharing? I want to see tips, tricks, little-known facts. I want to absorb knowledge from areas I don't usually interact with.

Code structure is harddd to teach but I think it's also hard to learn from teaching. I find it's more of a practice thing. You learn by making bad architecture decisions and then learning from the pain points that come from them.

This is particularly true in Unity.

Well, it finally happened. Someone trained an AI on my voice, and used it to generate narration for their YouTube video.

Feels pretty bad! Don't like it!

I've submitted a privacy complaint with YouTube - hopefully they'll take it down soon.

Picture of "Covão dos Conchos", in Portugal. It's an artificial lake in the Serra da Estrela mountains that is famous for its bell-mouth spillway. Description adapted from Wikipedia.

Can I interest you in "Covão dos Conchos", in Portugal?

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.

And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.

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Shutting down an unresponsive computer by holding down the power button always feels like pressing a pillow down on a person's face while saying "go to sleep"

I didn't know this was in Dublin! I need to go there!

For me, the convention of prefixing an underscore to the variable name is enough, but I do find that both godot's editor and something like Rider aren't great at showing you what is and isn't prefixed with an underscore, compared with something like PyCharm for Python.

I'm pretty sure this is just a natural consequence of gdscript being a dynamically typed language (and also seemingly largely inspired by Python).

Git log that says "Update chick to chicken asset in TestScene"

I have a few of those myself!

Happy birthday David!! Whereabouts are you exploring? :)