[HN Gopher] Movie Maker mode in Godot 4.0
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Movie Maker mode in Godot 4.0
Author : Tomte
Score : 112 points
Date : 2022-11-14 18:08 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| incrashedSake wrote:
| lynndotpy wrote:
| This is really fascinating. I'd wanted a similar mode in many
| simulation-style games ever since I was a child, trying to record
| a video detonating TNT in a Minecraft world.
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| I've loved Godot since 2, and I didn't even know this was on the
| radar. Good stuff!
| the_mitsuhiko wrote:
| Because of all the hype about Godot I tried it recently and I was
| really pleasantly surprised. Particularly Godot 4 is a real joy
| to create little games with. Went down the rabbit hole to build
| something with my kids and we found it highly enjoyable.
|
| Only sad aspect is that I eventually converted to Godot 4 and now
| I'm stuck with it, but can't publish it for them on iOS because
| that part is broken for a few months now.
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| My oldest is reaching the age where they're requesting very
| specific games of an appropriate starting difficulty for
| something like Godot ("I want a DDR game but with my made up
| character"). Can I ask for any suggestions you've got regarding
| making a small game with your kids?
| henryfjordan wrote:
| I made 2 very small 3d "games" with Godot.
|
| There are a lot of things to learn in Godot. I leaned mostly
| on their own documentation and maybe a few YT videos here and
| there for certain effects.
|
| I would very much recommend 2d to start, there was a lot of
| fiddling with trigonometry to get the camera and things
| working in 3d. Really not hard but might be frustrating for a
| kid if they haven't been exposed to math like that yet.
|
| Other than that, just get started. I would recommend finding
| examples of similar games before you start. For my second
| game I just took the FPS tutorial and hacked at it until it
| did what I wanted. Much easier than starting from scratch and
| lets you dip your toes into the concepts you need to while
| being able to ignore the rest for now.
| tpxl wrote:
| > fiddling with trigonometry to get the camera and things
| working in 3d
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| FWIW, you don't need to do that. There are functions such
| as look_at which do that for you.
| henryfjordan wrote:
| I think I had copy/pasted some code for a 3rd Person
| Follower camera and I just needed to mess with the
| negative signs to make sure left was left and right was
| right.
|
| But yes, you can certainly get away with very little math
| even in 3d games.
| the_mitsuhiko wrote:
| It started with the kids wanting a specific game that they
| saw in a hotel somewhere but was bespoke. So we tried
| recreating it. Generally 2D things are relatively simple, and
| if you can get away with using the built-in physics system
| then even more so.
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| I'm not sure how much direct feedback I can give but
| splitting up art and programming (oldest sits next to me and
| gives me instructions) is quite fun. What makes Godot
| particularly fun at this is that you can poke around in the
| inspector as the game is running for fast iterations and
| changes.
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