GoDot

resume: Resumed function ” after yield, but class instance is gone

Published by Thomas Christof on 28. December 2020

Using yield in GoDot (3.2.2 or <) isn’t quite as fun as they are selling it. If you are using a yield for some game-logic, you probably did encounter this exception message. Let us re-construct the issue real quick: set_visible (just a random function call) will throw an exception, if between the yield and the …

GoDot – Shader – 2D – Outline

Published by Thomas Christof on 24. December 2020

GoDot – Visual Shader – 2D – Weapon Slash

Published by Thomas Christof on 8. December 2020

In order to make a 2D weapon attack more immerse, a slash shader might come in pretty handy. The used weapon image can be found on itch.io; and the haze has been made in Aseprite within 10 seconds. Feel free to use it as well within your project. Spoiler alert: If you aren’t interested in …

GoDot – Shader – 2D – Donut Shockwave

Published by Thomas Christof on 5. December 2020

This shader features a simple “donut shockwave”, based on the following Youtube tutorial. While the tutorial shows and explains a centric based shockwave, this shader implementation has been extended to enable arbitrary shockwave positions. Parameters force: The distortion amount within the donut circle center: The center of the shockwave size: The size of the outer …

GoDot – Visual Shader – 2D – Disolve

Published by Thomas Christof on 4. December 2020

This visual shader features a disolve/resolve functionality, based on this Unity video. The reference shader hasn’t been converted 1 by 1, since GoDot does lack a lot of visual shader components. Parameters Border-Size: Defines how thick the desolve/resolve border should be Border-Color: The color of the desolve/resolve border GravityFactor: A factor multiplied by the Gravity …

Hands-On GoDot’s GDScript

Published by Thomas Christof on 18. August 2019

A new day, a new engine – Jokes beside; the GoDot engine has been released around 2015 and is, by time of this article, at version 3.1.1 stable. I do like engines, frameworks and developing video games, so I simply had to evaluate this engine for my personal needs. Before we get right into the …