Godot Weekly #23 December 29th 2023

Hello!

And welcome to another edition of Godot Weekly!

MISCELLANEOUS

Joanna May shares her thoughts on enjoyable game architecture

RESOURCES

A Godot 4.0 port of a decal shader.

Godot Post-Processing Outline Shader (using depth and normals)

ASSETS

Asset Forge 2.4.0 from Kenney has been released!

GameDev Starter Kit - Tank Warfare by AssetHunts is Free to Download

PLUGINS

a Rigify feature set that makes Rigify exportable from Blender to Godot

A Godot plugin integrating a direct deployment workflow to SteamOS

A minimal Terrain heightmap editor for Godot engine

PRO TIPS

just in case you didn't know how Ctrl click on a function can help

Got multiple places trying to set the same bool, and are too lazy to manage your responsibilities?

TUTORIALS

SwiftGodot allows developers to take new and existing Swift packages and use them as extensions for the Godot game engine.

A short video detailing how I created a simple boat model (Blender + Godot)

Input remapping for Godot 4!

2D Mesh Set Up and Rigging in Godot 4.2: Polygons2D and Skeleton2D (multipart)

Godot Engine Game AI for Beginners: An Ultimate Guide

How to get the global coordinates in a Godot 2D Shader

how to make 2D Health bars show up in 3D space

How to use Dialogic 2 in Godot 4

This YouTube playlist contains some interesting lessons for Godot game makers

How to create a chunk system with LOD switching in Godot 4 for a procedural mesh.

how to create a Godot Setting Menu for increased FPS and 3D player experience

a 2D collisions tutorial

How to make sprite blink (a timer node tutorial)

how to do aim assist

how to do polygon 2D masking

how you can do atmospheric lighting for 2D games

Your First 2D GAME From Zero with GODOT 4! Vampire Survivor Style

How to create plugin to continuously monitor internet connection in your Godot game for android

How to create a 2d skeleton rig for this character inside of godot 4.2. (a multipart tutorial)

A simple little tutorial to personalize your Godot experience!

How to get a topdown rpg to work with Y-Sort, both for in-world objects, and tilemap objects!

how to make a top down 2D game

Ice lake shader on flat plane using Parallax mapping

How to Create plugin to copy data to clipboard in Godot game engine project for android

how to add a health bar to an enemy

how to use the property list functions for setting new variables dynamically inside the editor

how to handle the Android back button in Godot 4 so that you can implement custom behavior

how to integrate Wwise and Godot (wwise is Audiokinetic 's software for interactive media and video games, available for free to non-commercial users and under license for commercial video game developers.)

PROJECT TEMPLATES

a template for creating advanced Third/First Person movement