3D Primer: Godot 4 Alpha 

Thank you so much! Improving my editing has been a big focus recently ☺️

Same! Knew I had to start the video with it after I got really confused :')

@@BramwellWilliams I couldnt tell if it was a bug or a new option i had to tick or an old option i never used before that got new functionality. Three dots just dont scream "environment setup here!". I think it would make(slightly) more sense if the preview icons controlled the actual sun/env setup and the three dots was a preview toggle. Cant wait for the next primer(hopefully another 3D one)✌

Yeah why would they have it enabled by default, it's actively misleading and definitely could confuse people who may be new to either godot or game dev in general (especially the latter) when they go to run their scene and they just see a grey screen -_- if there's no default environment the world should just be grey with no sun light when you make a new 3d scene just like how it's empty and grey when you make a new 2d scene

Hell yeah me too! I've been tending to use rigidbodies even for player characters, I'll need to give it a go - characterbody seems to have changed a buuuunch

@@BramwellWilliams Haha give it a try. Maybe we can compare some notes later.

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isn't it just!Lots of Godot 4 videos on the agenda 🤩

I better activate the bell

Probably with some shader magic, but I still have no idea.

I know right! such a smoother experience 😍

Thanks! Its Kay Lousberg's stuff, heres the link: kaylousberg.itch.io/ c:

@@BramwellWilliams Thank you! I didn't understand that either. Her stuff is really nice! wow.

I would say so! Or at least it's finally stable enough to start playing with and get used to the changes - in the other video I had a disclaimer about it not being worth porting big projects until the feature freeze in beta

Yep! I haven't showed that off yet because I'm struggling a bit with my source meshes though, as you need to add no depth test to every material in the weapon mesh (and mine have some silly internal vertices that get revealed 😔)

@@BramwellWilliams hm true if there are multiple materials that have no depth test enabled at once you'll probably need to mess around with the way the triangles are sorted in the mesh itself otherwise some triangles may show up in front erroneously, maybe messing around with the render priority could help?

​@@jlewwis1995 No! That's a bad idea, don't do that! There's no way to really properly fix the triangle sorting issue, trying to do so will just make your life hell. It's better to create a custom shader, and stick this code inside the end of the vertex function: POSITION = PROJECTION_MATRIX * MODELVIEW_MATRIX * vec4(VERTEX, 1.0); POSITION.z = mix(POSITION.z, 0.0, 0.99); This will manually override the raw vertex position, which is usually done automatically, but writing to it will disable that, so the first line has to manually apply projection and stuff. The second line is where the magic happens, it'll cause the model to render completely infront of everything else, while retaining depth-testing against itself. Lighting and such will be completely unaffected. The only issue is that screen-space effects such as DoF and SSAO will be broken by this technique, and shadow casting on the mesh is broken so it has to be disabled. But otherwise, it works perfectly.

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