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Hi Jacob .. Just got through this whole vid (had to do 1.5x speed ;P) and really enjoyed your candidness and putting yourself out there. It seems to me you're on a solid track to being highly successful, if you manage to keep to your Change list ;) .. Oh and huge congratz on the baby that's on the way! .. I've coded at an amateur level for years, mostly making generative art (let me know if you're interested in seeing that) and now I'm busy creating a mobile game inspired by the classic Arkanoid. Your advice in this video was spot-on for various things I was thinking about doing, so thank you. I found you because I realised I should probably be using enums lol, so learning about them atm. I started with this game as a way to learn Godot/GDscript, but it has fast beome something much more than a simple arkanoid clone that I'm becoming proud of. Let me know if you'd like to give it a test-play - I've got internal testing set up on the play store and would just need to add your email =) .. Thanks again, have subscribed! Looking forward to more videos

nice vide. Just variable names convention is snake_case.

Thank you, Jacob, I really needed to hear this. I believe our paths and goals are quite similar, with the difference that I am in the beginning, and I am yet to commit those mistakes. Even knowing they will come, I just know I will fall for them haha. Learning from mistakes, I suppose. Thank you for the help, Jacob, I hope your game succeeds.

Perforce is my favorite version control for games, but you *definitely* don't need an AWS container for your depot lol. That stuff racks up quick; I accidentally burned through $100 of Azure credit in a couple weeks because I left a test resource running lmao. Good luck on the game!

I'm also a godot game dev finishing a similiar cycle, haven't publish any content but i will soon finish my prototype of a 3d endless runner.

Your hair flipped!

millions of dollars

Hey man, love the vid but i got a problem with the Velocity module, im using the latest version of godot, I get the error : " Cannot call non-static function "is_on_floor()" on the class "CharacterBody2D" directly. Make an instance instead. " Any idea on how to fix it? Thx for the vid btw

question abt naming: u name a few funcs differently, e. g. checkMailInput() and deliver_mail(), same with vars: mailBag, mail_target, etc. Is there any reason / tie to ur architecture logic why switch between these naming conventions? edit: another question, u mentioned that module containers can be modules too, how would u enforce that? just add an export group in that module container for the required modules?

2 years latet and this is still very helpful. Even with outdated syntax ( exports) and stuff, its a great video showcasing the fundemental parts of making an item system in godot. Videos like this are hard to find now because everyone just wants to show off their way to make inventories, instead of just showing people fundementals of items. So thank you even now for this fantastic video!

This also just makes sense in the real world. A platypus deviates from the standard "mammal" and may not inherit everything most other mammals have.

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Amazing lesson. Subscribed hoping that you'll release the next part!

personally, i'd set the individual node export var to automatically choose the parent characterbody IF the variable is null. Otherwise, I do like the idea of being able to set up the parent node manually, i usually just set it to get_parent().get_parent() lmao

"Composition over Inheritance" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance python-patterns.guide/gang-of-four/composition-over-inheritance/

Great video. I am trying to learn how to code games with no prior coding knowledge or experience. This video was way over my head, but still enjoyed it. Nice job!

Your manner of speaking while you explain things feels insulting since I am not a child (and I'd probably still be miffed even then), but this is still a good tutorial. I've been trying to find a tutorial that was more than "here's my composition nodes. Look, I can put this health component on this NPC _and_ this player. WoOooOOo~." without ever actually explaining how it works. Most of it was pretty obvious, but the part that had always escaped me before was connecting things once you added them. My OOP addled brain would always try to connect them in the parent class making the system _mostly_ redundant. At least then the change wouldn't necessitate modifying everything that used that component if I decided to add or remove one from an entity. So I essentially had just adapted the modularization to OOP principles without actually taking full benefit of the composition's strengths. So you and Godotoneer's videos were the only ones that were helpful (but the latter is long and takes me a few days to actually watch through with how dry it is despite it being _very_ informative). So thank you for making this tutorial, and I'll _try_ sitting through more of your tuts in the future since it's quite clear that you know what you're doing unlike people who regurgitate the bare minimum and only specifically as it applies to their system.

OOP is not equal to "inheritance". Composition is absolutely OOP as well. The better way to put it: use inheritance for "system" logic, and composition for "business" logic.

Oi, where's episode 3 mate? You're 4 months overdue.

Thank you, sir

Do you just remember everything or are you using a diagram to follow how everything is connected?

For Godot 4: The syntax for exports is like this @export var my_item : Resource I had to change the item_sprite script quite a bit. Here it is. Mind you I don't use the same naming conventions as him so it won't directly port over but you should easily be able to see the pattern in what needs changed. extends TextureRect @export var my_item : Resource: set = _set_item @onready var my_label = $RichTextLabel func _ready(): if my_item: _set_item(my_item) # Initialize the item if it is set from the start func add_quantity(amount_added : int): my_item.add_quantity(amount_added) _update_label() # Ensure the label is updated func _set_item(new_item : Resource): print("setting item") my_item = new_item self.texture = my_item.get_texture() _update_label() # Update the label with the new item func _update_label(): if my_label and my_item: my_label.bbcode_text = str(my_item.get_quantity())

Where's the third video???

Um... good luck with dealing with hundreds (thousands) of unique items/characters.

So are enums like each unieque item in minecraft, where there is number assigned to each of them?

For those getting this error: Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'instance' in base 'PackedScene'. Switch editorAddon.instance() to editorAddon.instantiate()

When I tried using "@export_node_path(Sprite2D)" I got an error message saying that Sprite2D "isn't a constant expression". Any suggestions?

How can I hide the script name at the top of the inspector. The scriptname category.

Interesting that you don't use any custom Resources. Have you considered how they may work with a compositional system like this? I have recently started using Resources and they seem quite powerful for compositional systems.

This was very helpful, thank you

this is easier than unity editor

Did anyone have a trouble with Y sort enabled when implementing workflow like he did?

Thank you for this video.

I loved this, recently i made a game in Godot for my college event & it turned out to be lil messy for my side cuz i didn't know how to organise the code, but glad that everyone like my game ☺️✨ Now learning from that, I'm trying to learn about coding patterns & management stuffs. Thus, so i found this channel & im glad i found it... Pls make more videos like this 💗💗💗 Love from India 🇮🇳

How did you approach the inventory singleton? I tried to make one and I created a dictionary to store all items and a function to load them when one is added but Im pretty sure there should be a better way to do it

enums could be very useful in custom resources

Do the flags tutorial for real! A question I have coming off this video, how would I check if a weapon has a specific damage type without looping through and bitshifting them? I know this is a google-able question but it would still be cool

damn the glowing border around the sub button ar 1:44 was awesome. first time i saw that. was that something u needed to code yourself or a new feature from yt?

How can i move the play button of the editor to the middle?

Hey man, how do i make conditional export enum? Like if i choose between weapon or consumable the next option will appear: axe sword etc if i choose weapon or potion bomb etc if i choose consumable

you forgot to link the previous episode in the description

5:00 maplestory music :)

nice one. love these vid snippets about godot/coding concepts

Great I am glad now we are getting more and more amazing tutorials for godot now Godotgamelab is another great channel i would recommend as he teaches code structure and architecture while making a really complex feature complete game You can follow it while you wait for the next part of this series. I am very excited for the future of godot

This was a great tutorial to learn about composition. I'm still a beginner in how to code in general so I was a bit confused trying to see where all the code comes together so I had to rewind a lot.

Please don't stop posting tutorial/guides videos.

Hey Friends, thanks for watching! As a tip, I commented as much as I could with the inline documentation techniques within the Godot 4 Editor, so if you grab the code from the Github link, you can search the documentation for each of the custom classes! And a bunch of the export vars should have tooltips when you hover over the values. Honestly, this saves so much time trying to remember what some random vars do on your 400th shrub scene.

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Hey Friends! Fair warning: This tutorial is a bit outdated! At some point, I'll get around to making a Godot 4+ version, but for now, I'd recommend checking out my video on the new Export syntax in Godot 4 to get started with some of the new data exporting rules! Thanks for the continued support! Let me know if you'd like to see this or any of my other older tutorials refreshed for the current Godot 4 landscape!

In Godot 4.1 I tried this twice and each time I get to 17:25 and try and put in the white_shirt.tres I don't see the white t shirt in the editor. I did make my own white tshirt PNG, but I didn't do anything unique with the picture and it should be showing up. Did anyone else get stuck here?