Octodemy

Great tip!
Just found out glb models uses backface culling properly when using "internal materials".

But they changed to "culling disabled" after extracting the materials.

It seems when you extract the material, it'll follow whatever blender's material cull settings is (the camera cull checkbox).

Who else gets annoyed when ProceduralSkyMaterial's sky and ground horizon colors doesn't match in Godot?

Learning InspectorPlugins, the first thing I had to make is syncing these colors.

Here's what I was trying....

I thought it was all due to how small the coin was.
I had been messing around with the physics solver properties for quite a while trying to "fix" this.

Who knew the model's trimesh was the culprit all along.

The root of all my problems...

I've thought Godot had been giving me wonky trimesh collision generation.

Now I know why....

Natural object placement with physics in the editor.

Right now it simulates all rigidbodies in the scene.
I think I'll add a filter to only simulate selected objects so you won't mess up your scene later.

#godot

There is always something hidden behind meshes.

Make sure to always scan things with your stencil shaders.

#godot #stencilshader

@passivestar.bsky.social Excuse me, how were you able to have shadows inside the stencil?

I can't think of any way to have that be possible.
My shadows are also rendered in the outside world and are not stencil masked. I tried a few different things but none worked.

YouTube video by Octodemy || Godot 4.5 is HERE || You won't believe what's new

Godot 4.5 is here!
Here's some of my favorite features of this release.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZcM...

#Godot #Godot4.5 #GodotNews

It's really fun playing around with stencil shaders in Godot 4.5 now.

It's incredible how simple masks can help create some awesome new effects now.

#Godot

Have you ever wonder how to draw textures in Godot?

I've just made a new tutorial on how to make your very own paint system. Check it out!

www.youtube.com/@octodemy

#Godot #GodotTips

Got sidetracked while exploring how sub-viewports works in 2D.
When I realized, I had made this.

Had to make some funky code to take the photos of the background layer (which had bloom&brightness adjustments), the moving objects that didn't and also not screenshot the text.

#Godot

While I was stress testing and playing around with procedural geometry in Godot, I found out you actually lose performance by calling floori() in gdscript.

And since discarding the decimal point is exactly what I want, I guess I'll just divide it normally then.

#GodotTips

Experimenting with custom StyleBox'es in Godot, I've made a Stacked StyleBox that is very useful to create buttons.

Agreed, I'm so dependent on this to orient myself in 3D that I had to make a godot addon just to add this to the engine so I could work in 3D scenes there.

YouTube video by Octodemy Making a GOOD Drag and Drop Inventory

Here's all the tricks to using Godot's Drag and Drop system
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUR1...

Got everything I wanted done using Godot's drag and drop system.

A tutorial will be coming out soon on how to use and solve all the problems I encountered along the way.

YouTube video by Octodemy Creating complex 3D navigation | Fixing navmesh problems in Godot

I think you already saw this by now, but I made a video tutorial going over the problems and solutions here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXEX...

I fell into the drag and drop system rabbit hole.

This is using the Godot's builtin drag drop solution.

There are some limitations, but I've found workarounds for them.
I'll make a quick video about it before I forget everything.

#godot

Here's a little prototype I made last month that led to those couple of RTS tutorials I made.

I was experimenting on how to code AI with state machines.

#godot

YouTube video by Octodemy Creating complex 3D navigation | Fixing navmesh problems in Godot

Here's an quick overview on how to use the navmesh system in Godot.

And a few tips to make your agents move correctly on difficult terrain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXEX...

Last week, I found out I was using Godot's navmesh settings completely wrong while trying to fix ramp corners.

Now things finally makes more sense.

YouTube video by Octodemy How to drag select units RTS style | Unit selection in 3D

Here's a tutorial on how to make RTS-style selection in Godot.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnL0...

Playing around with RTS things now.
Here's the unit selection working.

I make a lot of small projects that never see the light of day, so I'll post here what I'm currently doing just in case.

Last month or so I was playing with making a physics raycast car.

You can follow its progress and make your own with the tutorial series here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mqm...

2D fake walls can be achieved with only tilemap layer's custom data.... kinda.

ucupaint is really an awesome addon for blender.
It's been gaining a lot of traction in the last year.
It's incredible that its even free and open source.
There is no other one like it.

Funny story, I used to install Ubuntu and immediately after install xfce into it...

Only much later that I learned what xubuntu was, and that it already does that and comes with xfce.

YouTube video by Octodemy Complete Guide to FPS controllers

Released a video about some of the basics on how to start making your own FPS controller.

Covers:
- Basic movement
- Moving platforms
- Legs and Hands
- Fix clipping and shadows
- Basic shooting
- Decals and hit particles

www.youtube.com/watch?v=my6o...

Did you know?

The last selected script files will have blue names.
The more recent it is, the bluer its name will be.

#Godot #GodotTips

I fell into the PICO-8 fantasy console rabbit hole.

It's really fun making games with limitations.

It has an incredible community.
And the tutorial series by LazyDevs is such a great introduction.