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Been at this a while 🤓

Oh dang, nice!

Thank you 🥹

Thanks so much! I haven’t looked at the code in a minute, but if you have a specific question you want to run through please drop by the discord and we’ll get you sorted. ❤️

Oh that’s an interesting thought! I often do a less complex one early to make it easier to start and build momentum - but I can see it working you way as well. ❤️

You’re welcome!

Excellent points! Keep things simple 👏

Sounds like you already do it naturally 👏

You know, I’ve been working from home for over 20 years and so I’m always refining how I stay focused and motivated… some days you just don’t have it. There’s not always a solution, but you try to be a little better each project or each day. And it’s certainly important to remember to take it easy on yourself - not every day CAN or HAS to be productive. Sometimes we just need a break.

Yeah, you gotta set deadlines for sure - whether they’re real or made up. It’s important to keep things moving forward and it is important to hold yourself accountable - which sometimes means feeling bad you missed a deadline, arbitrary or not. Great point!

What a nice comment to wake up to. Thanks so much! If you have more questions, please come say hello in our Discord. We’ll be happy to help!

​@@baconandgames yes, your work is awesome! I actually have an issue with this piece of code here at around 34:58: spawner.call_deferred("spawn_tail",snake_parts[snake_parts.size()-1].last_position) The error was: Out of bounds get index '0' (on base: 'Array[PlayerPart]') I think it means the array hasn't had any item in it yet. I tried changing -1 into +1 and even delete the whole [_] identification of the snake_parts array eventually but it still doesn't work - still the same error. Any idea how to fix it? Much appreciated!!

🥹 👉👈 - thank you

I would probably use composition. You’d create a node that can be dropped onto any object that might “care” about being in free travel. It probably wouldn’t do much more than handle that flag and allow you to read or write it. Then, whenever relevant, then you could check for whether an object is part of that system with has_method (one of many ways to check if an object adheres to some standard such as being a part of the “free travel” system you’ve written) and then act accordingly. Godot is full of ways (perhaps too many) to set up these kinds of systems. You could have a group that you apply to things that need to be part of free travel (and you can add/remove things from groups all the time), you could use metadata (I don’t recommend this, but sometimes it makes sense), you could even use inheritance to bubble up this property to anything you want as part of your “free travel” system. Godot is designed to allow you to mix inheritance and composition, but I feel like it favors composition more. You might find this video on composition v inheritance very helpful: ua-cam.com/video/74y6zWZfQKk/v-deo.html

@baconandgames I think I get it, I'm gonna code it and see what happens Thank you so much

@J3ff_K1ng That’s the right answer! Nothing beats trying it yourself. Good luck! If you get stuck or want feedback, please come by the Discord (link in bio) and someone will give you a nudge :) Happy coding!

Awww, thanks. I don’t know if I’d call it sophisticated but I hope it helps you get started. I’ve been meaning to make some updates but I’ve been so busy… life, amirite 🤣

❤️

The code is provided as-is. If people want to add security checks they’re welcome to. I’m not shipping high volume games with this but any commercial title should do their due diligence with their own code or others’ code. Low stakes template here.

Lovely! Thanks for the kind words!

I hadn’t thought of using metadata. That’s an interesting thought 🤔 although you’d lose the color picker and live preview, yeah?

Yeah, that’s the issue that I did a terrible job of highlighting in this video (ack, still learning this YT thing). Most of my sprites still have some white (or another color) in them somewhere that I want to keep white. And I think if your outlines aren’t black they also get affected by the modulation. I realized this oversight about a hour before the video was done. But for my workflow, modulate isn’t really a option. That being said, this is a great tip for others that I really should have called out in the video. 🤦‍♂️ Thanks for calling this out 🙏

Noted! I’m going to throw that onto my list of videos.

Usually Aesprite but in this video I’m drawing with Adobe Animate (weird choice, I know; but I’m trying out something for a game I’m working on)

Very cool! Let me know when it’s up. I’d love to see it.

Thank you ☺️

Thanks Fritzy! ❤️

That tripped me up no end until it finally sunk in they were *sharing* the same resource.

I realized as I was editing this that I didn't make that clear because in MOST of my examples in this video, you could use the modulate property 100%. But if you have some white in the image you want to remain white or slither color OR you aren't using black outlines, you can't achieve this with modulate. As an example, if you look at the color animation demo (the second in the video) using the modulate property would change the white base of the light as well when I only wanted to change the color of the light. Sorry I didn't make that more clear in the video... sometimes once you're in the edit phase the only way is through and onto the next one. Thanks for the comment!

I appreciate that you appreciate that... there's a sentence for you. I will do my best - I'm not always very good at taking my own advice 😛

Awwww snap. Nuts and pork together in one place. Both of you guys have been extremely helpful in helping me demystify shaders this past month.

@lout160 haha. Nuts and pork… that’ll be my streaming sub-channel 🤣

@@baconandgames Ooooo. Can we expect a collab with a certain Cashew?

@lout160 🥓🥜

You bet! I have some updates in the works but it’s slow going

I can't tell you how happy that makes me. Keep at it yourself! And when you're ready, please come by our Discord to show us what you're working on.

“wee components” 🤦‍♂️ That’s so much better than Bacon Juice!

That’s a super handy one for sure 🤯

You do you, boo 🥰

My grandfather used to say, that’s why they make vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.

Thanks! I’ll have a look. I rewrote a bunch of stuff after that video went up, so I may have noticed the same issue. Nothing that changes the implementation, just the internals. I appreciate the kind words and the bug report!

Oh yep, there it is! This isn't the bug I fixed but I just ran into it. Thank you for the catch. I'm going to update this today! Wait - I found a different bug. In process I should have been looking at the x/y values separately to determine when to stop. With the shipped code, if either of the values never changed (most often because with 1.0 as one of the SS values) it immediately stopped. Switching the check to this: if abs(nodes[i].scale.x - _initial_scales[i].x) >= 0.01 or abs(nodes[i].scale.y - _initial_scales[i].y) >= 0.01: Along with your fix 👏

Nice! That’s a good one.

Aww, thank you so much!

Depends on how you use it. If it’s long and slow, yeah you’ll get some sub-pixel funniness but if it’s quick enough I don’t think anyone will notice. But again… tradeoffs and acceptable limitations. This is meant to be simple and easy to use, not a solution for every use case.

@@baconandgames Of course, I'm just including this comment for benefit of anyone who might wanna use this in their game.

@ShinoSarna yeah, sorry about that. Didn’t mean to sound so sharp. You’re 100% right as it is a consideration I probably ought to have said aloud in the video. ❤️

@@baconandgames Oh no trust me, its fine. your comment just added more nuance.

@ShinoSarna 🤜🤛

Happy to help ❤️

You could, but I chose to use lerp which I probably a touch lighter but it’s really just a matter of preference. Either will work.

@@baconandgames people say, that tweens are lighter because they're C++ things, and it is always better than gdscript's _process. (anyways, it doesn't matter unless you have thousands of such nodes)

That's very possible, but as you say - you'd really have to go bonkers with this little thing for it to become an optimization issue. This isn't a giant all-encompassing system - just a little util to add spice here or there :)