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This is a pretty maddening bug that I ran into: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/30215 To summarize, you basically can't use the built-in viewport scaling at all because it breaks mouse input.

I lightly used Godot before and using GDScript was a bad experience. It has some confusing semantics relating to reference counting and in-place modification (e.g. [0]) that make it really hard to use as a 'real' language (as opposed to small bits of code for scripting). The mitigating factor is that it's got good bindings support and a codebase that's very tractable to poke around in, so you can easily extend it in other languages. [0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/15265

I can't speak Frictional's code quality, but historically released titles tend to be a tangle of hacks and short-term decisions that hammer things into working or being performant, coming at the expense of future developers and correctness. I do agree that the field is full of great code to reference, though. I'm a huge fan of Godot's codebase. It's well written, and easily understood both architecturally, and in-method. https://github.com/godotengine/godot

> designing UIs anywhere outside the code will eventually bite you. With Godot it is possible to design the UI in code--the editor itself uses that approach, e.g.: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/27d12092821df77a61... > you can practically throw your version control system out of the window for UI files. While not "perfect" with VCS (there's a bit of automatic-generated file content churn at times), Godot stores its files (UI & other) as plain text (not even XML) with a very shallow hierarchy, e.g. here's a "scene" file from a project of mine: https://gitlab.com/RancidBacon/godot-foreigner-export-demo/-... While I wouldn't really recommend two people working on one scene simultaneously, if it were necessary for some reason, Godot does provide the ability to separate a scene into "subscenes" which could be worked on independently

I like the concept, but you're starting your development by throwing out the native UI components, along with all the accessibility features, keyboard shortcuts, and other features that go with them. A search about accessibility immediately popped up github issues acknowledging the difficulty making screen readers work: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/29736 There are some applications that mimic all those friendly native behaviors, but it tends to take a lot of work, and sometimes pushing updates when the OS behaviors change.

It ray-marches the SDF when integrating them into the probes. You can see that here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/481151be09108a3000...

Godot has many parts besides the UI and graphics stack, and most of its dependencies vendored and statically linked. See the thirdparty folder for a list: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/tree/master/thirdparty The official binaries include everything, but many of the larger bits are optional and can be disabled during build time to reduce the size of the executable: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/development/compiling...

I'm a full time game dev and started a fairly large 3d project in Gotdot last September, I worked in it for about 2 months full time before moving to another project with another team. The bugs that hindered my productivity were mostly "land mines" that I discovered along the way. 1. I thought having my scripts as internal scripts sounded good for a week until I realized there are all kinds of undocumented problems with storing your scripts that way. I had to refactor. 2. There is no selection outline around mesh in the editor window. Makes it impossible to build a 3D scene in Godot. My guess is that the developers expect you to build the scene in Blender then import it as one big FBX. (But that's not ideal for some things) 3. Then I hit the dangling reference bug and that was a heavy blow to my enthusiasm. The fact you can save a referen

Seems lambdas are coming in 4.0. https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/2684#issuecommen...

I'm learning how to make a game engine. I initially was following along with Handmade Hero a series that I have been going back to frequently over the past few years. https://handmadehero.org The series is great but I wanted something more guided so I am eyeing purchasing Game Coding Complete. It teaches the internals of a game engine and uses DirectX for rendering. https://www.amazon.com/Game-Coding-Complete-Fourth-McShaffry... Because deliveries are on lock down in my country the book will have to wait. So right now I have gone through SDL tutorials (there was a recent update to the LazyFoo SDL tutorial) and am currently finishing OpenGL. http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php https://learnopengl.com/ Finally, I've been checking out repositories of open source game engines and poking around their codes. interesting ones are below: G

There's good context/discussion in the PR that implements the game camera override/"hot camera" in 3.2: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/27742

If you search for "vim", you'll find there's already an issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/17213 - the latest comment is about a year old and says: > The current implementation of the text field looked pretty much straight forward and exchangeable. So at anyone reading this, feel encouraged to grab this issue! :-)

Need to try it ASAP, although I see the issue that prevented my kids from using it (https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/24890) is still open - managed accounts present a few challenges, but I hope this has been sorted somehow.

OpenGL is deprecated on macOS and iOS, because Apple has changed to use Metal: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/19368 That's why Godot is moving to Vulkan, that can also run on Metal: https://godotengine.org/article/retrospective-and-future For Godot game developers, this will not be visible in any way, it's under the hood change to engine. For other apps, there is in progress development to run full OpenGL on top of Vulkan with Zink. There is a blogpost about it here: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2018/10/31/intr... There is also a talk about it at The X.Org Developer's Conference 2019-10-02 here, for example Blender seems to work already: https://youtu.be/rV0P1ChE_5o?t=3970 All conference recordings are listed at conference website: https://xdc2019.x.org/