Godot 4 Hack and Slash #1 Active Skill

This is the first part of the Godot 4 Hack and Slash video series. In this video I'm gonna show you how I am making a general skill system that the player actively delivers with 3 phases - windup, delivery, and recovery.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:56 Active Skill
1:21 Animation Tree
1:51 Attack Buffer
2:46 Skills Container
3:11 Windup, Delivery, Recovery
5:26 Active Skill Controller
6:23 Update Player Controllers
7:00 Dash
9:16 Sword Trail VFX

[@3dssolidsnake]

You should add an inventory system and basic pickups to it as well.

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Great idea 👌 Added to my list. It might become its own separate series idk.

[@majordabalert]

@@JohnnyRouddrosounds awesome

[@aarav6891]

@@JohnnyRouddro waiting for it...

[@billmore6486]

Your like the only creator doing these types of videos for godot. Third perosn type tutorials are barren for godot. Keep up the great work!

[@arcadia8431]

Thank you for these tutorials. Got back on track with game dev.

[@Mrtargi]

Forgot to mention minor issue. If you re in crouch pose or prone pose when you attack you stand inside the wall or dash outside which looks really strange)

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Thanks for pointing it out. Will fix it in the next video 🙏

[@Josh-op6dl]

Just when I needed! Thx

[@arthur.s]

Incredible work!

[@aidenmiranda519]

THANK YOU SO MUCH IVE BEEN NEEDING THIS OMW

[@coltr1]

This is great, looking forward to the weapon switching and possibly other abilities.

[@Protech-ps6cw]

Thanks men your tutorials are really helpful 😊

[@mazander_man]

great work johnny!

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Thank you ☺️

[@kruth6663]

Nice, I've been waiting for this :D

[@rz_rabbi]

Although I'm learning a different game engine for now and focusing only on that one to speed up learning, I still watch all your content just because I enjoy your tutorials more than any show on Netflix. Maybe someday I can finally start learning Godot.

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Thanks Rabbi ♥ That means a lot to me. I hope you become super pro game dev in no time, then one weekend you would just pick up and Godot and learn it 😄

[@LuizMoratelli]

Come from reddit! Thanks for sharing :D

[@majordabalert]

Dope

[@franciscolopez-kw2xq]

Gracias por la explicasion, me a servido mucho

[@JohnnyRouddro]

No problem 👌

[@iIAbOoDIi_]

Incredible video man
I wonder if you can make the next weapon some type of gun

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Thanks. The next weapon is melee too, want to keep this series focused on melee combat. I will definitely create shooting mechanics related to this one, but it will be part of another series.

[@sanyi9667]

never stop making tutorials!

[@NeonfireStudio]

Nice combat, it is good for rpg game

[@OugonGatekeeper]

I would be interested in how you would create a camera with target lock-on in godot 4.

[@ItzVic]

I really like this series because it works great has clean code and even uses states. I have some questions:
1) Are you planning on adding the features from the Godot 3 version, like the shooting mechanics?
2) Can a First Person Perspective be implemented in this same controller without having to change the logic?(Player rotates together with the camera)

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Thanks! I do have plans for shooting mechanics, but I'll prioritize the features list in 0:18 . In my Godot 3 shooter series, I've created a specific type of shooting mechanics which may or may not work with this project. Nevertheless, I plan to make a completely new shooting mechanics in a modular way where I can modify stuff like targeting systems (like aimed/auto targeting etc), the shooting system itself (like ray bullet/projectile bullet/bow arrow etc).
Yes first person perspective will be easy to implement with this project. You can start by hiding the mesh and setting the spring length of the springarm node as 0.

[@ItzVic]

Thank you for your response. For my project I need a good third person controller even though it's going to be focused on first person. I thought since I'd be doing a multidirectional movement and relative to the camera, I might as well base it on third person movement.
I tried what you recommended, and it works, however I'm not sure what's the best way to approach this, because I would prefer the camera to match the movement and the body to be visible in first person. Should I set up a different blend tree where all anims look at 1 direction? should i use "look at" for the player rotation? I know this can be complicated, and any information will be appreciated if you know something about it/ know a source I can learn from. Thanks once again

[@Mrtargi]

Amazing tutorial! As usual! How do you think what is best solutions to implement different type of attack to different weapons types? I mean I already have fully working and scalable inventory system (I would be happy to share if you need) but I want different melee attack according to weapon type (blunt, sharp etc) so It should be different combos as well, but I don't want it to be too complex. More like fallout style

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Every weapon will have its own set of active skills that contain all the data. The next video is about weapon changing which I'll upload pretty soon, I hope you will find what you're looking for there.

[@Mrtargi]

​@@JohnnyRouddro almost forget, it also would be great to add counter. So after certain amount of time amttamck counter reset amnd we start again with the first attack animation. Now it feels really strange when you continue attack from where you've stopped before

[@CopyCatBlack]

Sir can you please make a aimming system where the character do the strafe animation 🙏🙏🙏

[@gonderage]

youure telling me we couldve just dynamically changed one section of the blend tree insntead of manage a gigantic web of animations?!?!! Bless you!!!!

[@UnhingedAlt-hb1xe]

Thank you very much for this, will ranged weapons be considered in the future? Again thanks.

[@JohnnyRouddro]

I have plans for ranged attack, maybe built on top of this system. That definitely will be a series of its own.

[@crispyghoul]

Any plans on updating the third person shooter tutorials for godot 4?

[@JohnnyRouddro]

I have a plan to include shooting mechanics right in this active skill system. It will be another active skill tied to a weapon, that shoots projectiles and raycast bullets. Combine that with a targeting/aim system you got yourself a shooter mechanics.

[@Ceisri]

when i add a transition node in the animation player, it is empty... i don't see how to add states to it, looking at the documentation there's nothing that seems to help.

[@JohnnyRouddro]

If you select the transition node, you can see some options in the inspector where you can add states and modify values.

[@coltr1]

Have you considered discussing how this controller and eventually the enemies could be synchronized in multiplayer?

[@JohnnyRouddro]

I don't have any plans with multiplayer right now. With Godot's latest multiplayer features, it shouldn’t be too complex though. Maybe I'll give it a try in future, but right now I do have a long list of topics to cover.

[@coltr1]

@@JohnnyRouddro Sounds good, I’ll likely be trying to implement your tutorials into multiplayer as you go. Looking forward to it!

[@onokoreal]

Nice! where are the animations from?

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Thanks! I made them 😄

[@onokoreal]

@@JohnnyRouddro Nice work I thought it was from mixamo at first!

[@abdelrhmanhatem6872]

Do i have permission to use your models as placeholders untill i finish mine?
Iam currently working on a souls like and would love to nail the mechanics before spending ages on animation and modeling, retopology,etc
if you want credites i can totaly mention you however you want, thanks in advance

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Of course! You can use the model however you want, no credits needed 👌

[@davitheking024]

i really need one like this for unity too, but still nowhere to be found (no i'm not switching)

[@JohnnyRouddro]

You can try and translate this project to Unity. Although in Unity this would be much more complex because Unity's built-in Animation Controller doesn't have the versatility of Godot's AnimationTree.

[@xdn_t]

I was literally just playing Spartan Total Warrior just about now and decided to go back and see if Godot can mimic that 🤯
Why don't you try following Spartan Total Warrior mechanics for your Hack & Slash Series? It's insanely simple, almost the same mechanic as yours now, you could practically remake it in the meanwhile, lol

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Spartan Total Warrior has some sweet mechanics 👌 PS2 really had a golden era. After I'm done with my features list, the project will indeed look like that game haha.

[@xdn_t]

@@JohnnyRouddro I wanna remake that game with level editor for huge fantasy monsters battles 😭

[@sibel9272]

Couldn't the skills be resources you could attack to a single script instead of nodes?

[@JohnnyRouddro]

It really depends on how you want to organize. In my case I needed a reference to a vfx node in the hierarchy which would not be possible with resources.

[@nue_hazel]

Why the project feel so heavy ?
The scene seems so simple

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Does it lag or load very slowly on your computer?

[@nue_hazel]

@@JohnnyRouddro it is lag
Maybe my macbook air m2 not enough to run this project ?
I just think the environment is quite simple and i should able to run it smoothly.

[@isserleysdaddy]

amazing work

[@JohnnyRouddro]

Thank you! 🙏

[@its_saval]

I wonder how many of this could be used in 2d

[@JohnnyRouddro]

The state machine architecture can be used in 2D

[@renderlessgames]

Very similar to my game, Lethal Planet. Pretty cool of you to make it open source and free

[@sibel9272]

One is issue is that even if when the animation resets after the first attack, pressing attack again will still play the next attack. Also in the future, will you implement things charge attacks and holding inputs? (IE: Hold primary fire for charge attack), or if the player does a brief pause during an attack (like some moves in Devil May Cry) Good video btw.

[@JohnnyRouddro]

That's actually intended for now. After I'm done with the combo system, it will be responsible to decide which attack to do next, so the active skill controller can take that information and pass it. At 0:18 I mentioned all the core features of this demo, which are currently in development.

[@JohnnyRouddro]

And yes, the combo system will contain charged attack.

[@gabriel-xh8uo]

my dream
THANK YOU