Godot Weekly #26 January 19th 2024

Hello!

Welcome to another issue :-)

GODOT NEWS

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 dev 2

Version 4.2 will bring significant improvements to Godot's renderer. Read more here!

SHOWCASE

Someone made a fake OS in Godot ;-)

Just wanted to show Eduardo Schildt's work on a 3D Pixel Art Village in Godot 4

RESOURCES

LDtk - The Best 2D Map Editor?

5 Ways to use AI in Game Development in 2024!

ASSETS

A roguelike tiny pixel asset pack :-)

PLUGINS

An addon for Godot engine that adds a convenience dock where you can store scenes.

A quick sample of the Animated Text plugin for Godot 3.5.

A plugin that allows efficient name-based access to any scene node from any script

Phantom Camera For Godot Is Awesome!

PRO TIPS

How to quickly open the folder containing a given file?

On pasting an animation track into the same animation from which it's copied. Sounds useful :-)

Did you know you can edit layer names more easily than by going through the Project Settings dialog?

TUTORIALS

This tutorial aims to solve the issue of setting up navigation with an AStarGrid2D on a Tilemap in Godot 4.2

How to apply 3D rotations to sprites in a 2D scene using a vertex shader?

Networking Tutorial: How to separate our server and clients?

How you can use wave function collapse procedural generation to create land masses?

A tutorial on advanced usage of Terrain3D (more in the author's channel)

How to create a top-down character movement script?

How to create realistic Sky, Cloud and Terrain in Godot?

How to handle navigation between scenes with a door system? (2D Tutorial)

How to use a tile map?

How to build a dynamic button list?

How to implement Steam's SDK into Godot 4?

On mastering character jump animations

How to create a ModelViewer Camera in Godot 4?

How to make a pause menu in Godot 4.3?

How to use Tweens in Godot 4?

And another one about using tweens in Godot 4 :-)

How to implement Steam achievements into Godot 4?

How to use a TileMap for beginner?

Loading Large Scenes and Completion Percentage

How to use the built-in pathfinding a star algorithm called AStarGrid2D?

Still Choosing Your Godot Programming Language? This might help!

GET SET...GODOT! Use the Revamped Setter and Getter Functions

This post by Allen Pestaluky describes the initialization and execution order of scripts that are attached to Nodes in the Godot game engine

This post by Allen Pestaluky is written for programmers who have experience working with statically typed languages and want a similar experience when working with GDScript

GET SET...GODOT! Use the Revamped Setter and Getter Functions

Implementing Isometric COLLISION - Edges, Walls, Player Movement

Connect Godot (C#) to Local AI