Talk about anything

DaveTheCoder

Maybe our brains are so filled with knowledge, it's hard to add any more.

packrat

It's shocking how well the "don't feel like it right now" strategy works.

Nerdzmasterz

I just tried Godot 4.x for a more professional project? I can't use control/z to undo things, tab to go to the next area... It's a bit unusual, but I feel I could get used to it. Are there no shortcuts for 4.x?

packrat

The undo and redo hotkeys have always been buggy for me in 3.4. But it's not just Godot and it stretches between machines, so I never questioned it. They work normally for you?

Nerdzmasterz

Yes.

cybereality

It's alpha software. Lots of stuff is broken.

Nerdzmasterz

It's going now, mostly. That was weird. Tab seems to be the only real issue atm.

CLAYOoki

Oh wow this thread is so active.

Do yall know any libraries that help with networking stuff?
Like adding chat to a game or a lobby system, dealing with latency, or anything like that?

Is it feasible to work on a multiplayer game in godot, or is it just better suited for single player

Nerdzmasterz

CLAYOoki

I would check this out first, assuming you understand basic coding and such. 😃

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/networking/high_level_multiplayer.html

TwistedTwigleg

CLAYOoki Do yall know any libraries that help with networking stuff?
Like adding chat to a game or a lobby system, dealing with latency, or anything like that?

If you are targeting only HTML5 and are okay with peer-to-peer, then I have found using PeerJS as an embedded JavaScript library and then using the Godot JavaScript communication layer works decently. You do have to do all of the data conversion/translation from PeerJS to Godot and back though, so it is not really beginner network programming friendly. It also has some latency, but for non instant real-time games, it should work okay.
It does that a lot of work though - I spent 3 or 4 weekends to get the initial stuff setup…

However, if you are making a non-HTML5 game and/or want to use the more powerful Godot networking stuff, then the built-in high level networking code is the place to go 🙂
Edit: the reason I didn’t go with the high-level networking is just I didn’t want to host my own server for my game.

CLAYOoki

Nerdzmasterz

Ah I was hoping for some more plug-and-play resources.
It seems the networking will be a bit of its own project.

Edit: Does anyone know any open-sourced projects that handle all the annoying cases like cheating, multiple servers, and etc?

Nerdzmasterz

And, yeah, this is probably THE most active thread here, from what I can see.

cybereality

Nerdzmasterz And, yeah, this is probably THE most active thread here, from what I can see.

2,500 posts!!! And the OP was a hit and run.

Bimbam

cybereality 2,500 posts!!!

Some of us just don't like Discord ^^

Nerdzmasterz

CLAYOoki I recall a similar conversation on this. The big answer I got was no. I can see from experience that pirates and hackers are dealt with in various ways.

You could try to keep all of the information on a server, or use a password, but neither of those methods are fool-proof. The server would probably be the best option, if one can afford it.

CLAYOoki

Nerdzmasterz
I found this. It seems pretty promising.

https://heroiclabs.com/blog/tutorials/godot-fishgame/

Erich_L

In my class Box I have this:

func setPopMessage(message : String = "Pop!"):
	_popMessage = message

but where I initialize my Box I'm not getting any auto-complete suggestions for the input:

	var box : Box = createBox(0,0,0)
	box.setPopMessage(NO SUGGESTIONS??? what am I doin wrong?)

Am I missing something?

cybereality

There is nothing to suggest. message is a String, it can be anything you want to type in. The Pop! is just a default parameter that is assigned if the method call is empty.

Erich_L

cybereality Usually when the editor knows the class type it gives you hints for what the func input parameters are.

On another note, does anyone know the name of the material parameter that allows the material to be drawn on top of everything else? I have been looking for quite some time, it's eluding me.

Tomcat

Does it make sense to use the QOI format?

cybereality

I've never heard of that, and I doubt it is useful for anything (considering I've never heard of it). JPG and PNG are already more than fine. In any case, GPUs use their own texture compression, so the file format you use (like JPG) is only for getting it into the editor. Once your game is running on your computer or on a phone, the GPU uses it's own optimized format so it doesn't actually matter.

Tomcat

cybereality I've never heard of that, and I doubt it is useful for anything (considering I've never heard of it). JPG and PNG are already more than fine.

I had not heard about this format, too, so I was surprised. It's kind of claimed to be a "faster PNG".

cybereality I couldn't get the command-line tools working, but I used this website. https://jpegxl.io/

Your browser does not support JPEG XL.😞

Megalomaniak

cybereality I've never heard of that, and I doubt it is useful for anything (considering I've never heard of it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QOI_(image_format)

I think it's mostly up to just how new it is. Seems like something with potential though, and open standards, IMO are always preferable.

Pixophir

Neither knew it. https://qoiformat.org/ Why do I think of fish ? :-)

Use a format that suits you most. I am a fan of PNG for simple images and height map stuff, also because one can make an image in a few lines of code with libpng.

But of course it depends on what you need it for. One stumbles over all kind of formats for all kinds of purposes.

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