The more you know, the cooler you sound.
People don't talk about game architecture enough so!
💫 How do I ID things? 💫
Let's retrace how I reinvented the wheel!
Latest when adding your first 💾 Save Game 💾 system, you will find you need to ID your object types, cuz you can't store a reference to a Prefab
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I spend the morning documenting more issues with CharacterBody3D and providing really specific MPR's and use cases.
Character creation and movement is one of the issues that has been bothering Godot users for long time. If you want to help fixing this, whatever it is sharing the bug report, your experiences, testing or fixing the issues, please take a look at the Bug report:
Ready for a new heist? Transplant your Blades in the Dark game into a whole new setting with The City of Red Waters by Ash McAllan. New heritages, backgrounds, crew types, and more await you in Inverrouge, where ambition and decadence meet.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/462722/City-of-Red-Waters?affiliate_id=24139
Stacy's mom
Has set up us the bomb
Her name is CATS and the main screen turn on
Stacy, you and I, make our time before we die
I know it might be wrong
Our base belong to Stacy's mom
"Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man."
deeply fucked that the version of the future we were sold was flying cars instead of no cars
Love this toothpaste label - let's roll it out across all products
https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2024/01/xandering-is-slandering.html
Oh cool! The guy who insisted on deadnaming Jennell Jaquays in his very famous article about her wildly influential dungeon design techniques, for years after both her public coming out and his having been informed, has decided, while she was in a coma on her deathbed, to rename the technique discussed in the article after himself, replacing the text of the original article and any of his own references to it online. He presumably discusses the technique in the book of dungeonmaster advice he's just published because his article on her technique was a foundational work in the blog that got him the book deal though who knows if there's any reference to Jaquays there given his apparent need to claim all credit.
Jennell was one of the most influential and foundational designers in the ttrpg hobby and to know that she was my sister as a trans woman has been incredibly important for me and my work. Losing her has been a tragic loss for our community and now to have her name spat on like this just as we've lost her is horrific. Grief and Rage.
Nonlinear dungeon design is Jaquaysian or Jaquaysed or at most distant, Thracian. Making a dungeon more non-linear is Jaquaysing it. Let's agree that Xandering is just being an unbearably spineless white man, given the Buffy context and this one.
I recently mentioned blurry text rendering in @godotengine vs Unity using TextMesh Pro and turns out, YES, this is fixable!
When importing a font, make sure to have Multichannel Signed distance Field (MSDF) enabled!
Pro Tip: If you're using outlines, increase MSDF Pixel Range to 2x of your outline size.
Read more here: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/gui_using_fonts.html#doc-using-fonts-msdf
Inputty is now on the #godot asset library!
Check it out if you want easy action rebinding, icons, and/or local multiplayer :)
I just released my new article with it's companion asset!
A deep exploration of the proper use of mouse events to create responsive and reliable controls in both 3D and 2D games and the best Godot first person camera you can get to put it all in practice!
Read it here: https://yosoyfreeman.github.io/article/godot/tutorial/achieving-better-mouse-input-in-godot-4-the-perfect-camera-controller/
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Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).
The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .
#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!
EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation
Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)
🚩https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/
EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.
Camembert is an endangered species! It relies on a mold that had lost the ability to reproduce sexually... and now, thanks to inbreeding, this mold has also lost the ability to reproduce using spores. Roquefort is also in trouble, but for Camembert it's worse:
"The world over, this other symbol of French gastronomy is inoculated exclusively with one single strain of Penicillium camemberti, a white mutant that was selected for Brie cheeses in 1898 and Camemberts in 1902.
The problem is that ever since then the strain has been replicated by vegetative propagation only. Until the 1950s, Camemberts still had grey, green or in some cases orange-tinged moulds on their surface. But the industry was not fond of these colours, considering them unappealing, and staked everything on the albino strain of P. camemberti, which is completely white and moreover has a silky texture. This is how Camembert acquired its now-characteristic pure white rind.
Year after year, generation after generation, the albino strain of P. camemberti, which was already incapable of sexual reproduction, lost its ability to produce asexual spores. As a result it is now very difficult for the entire industry to obtain enough P. camemberti spores to inoculate their production of the famous Norman cheese.
Worse still, while the Roquefort PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) standard retains a degree of microbial biodiversity, the PDO specifications for Camembert require farmers and other producers to use P. camemberti exclusively."
What to do about it? Switch to eating American cheese, or Velveeta? Read on....
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Since people on the bird site seem to love this plugin by @anthonyec a whole lot, let us shout it out here as well:
https://github.com/anthonyec/godot_little_camera_preview
It adds a little camera preview to the editor, in both 2D & 3D scenes!
Gonna try and share more of the things I make on here, so here's another #AshPlushie. This time a frog for my nephew. #punkplushies #punkcrafts
I made a lamp! Well it was a lamp already, with the lovely rusted steel tube housing, which I found in a thrift store. Originally it had a neon tube in it but it was either already broken or broke during my investigation so now I've wired in a standard E14 socket with a smart bulb in it now.
Decadence is delicious.
Set your scoundrels loose in the City of Red Waters. This new setting for Blades in the Dark completely replaces Doskvol with a voracious, bloody alternative. Stalk the streets of Inverrouge, where ambition, intrigue, and corruption mix. #ttrpg
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/462722/City-of-Red-Waters?affiliate_id=24139