Complete Godot Rhythm Game Tutorial 

can you post a new link? i have some questions about the video and need some help

This video is 3 years old but somehow this comment found me just in time. Thanks for the tip btw if anyone's still struggling, make sure you're using "Global" instead of "Globals" (I think it's just a typo) and use the game _ready function instead of an _on_ready function

Thank you! :) Would love to see it!

@@legiongames2400 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0sVOlYBlXsg.html hope you enjoy it!

I CANNOT ended up making a game over the weekend using this

​@@999dunkins me too im a noob

You're very welcome!

I could NOT go for a cup of coffee while making a game on this engine and I cannot get ANYTHING from this tutorial, how is script even work? this dude did NOT say anything if you know what I mean

I could go touch some grass and eat at a five star restaurant while waiting for unreal to compile shaders

Thank you very much! I love your videos!

Thank you for watching! :)

Was a little scared of making terminology mistakes LOL, unfortunately the googling I did didn't help it seems. :D Hopefully it doesn't confuse too many people.

so what is the correct terminology for it, i'm still confuse sorry. Is it call beat like what you imply in your comment or would it be call tempo.

@@MrLeeJiGun note instead of measure

Thank you for watching friend, I'm sorry I haven't gotten to updating it just yet. :(

@@legiongames2400 you still got a discord man? i really would appreciate it if your link in the pinned comment still worked...

Not yet unfortunately

bruh you play to much Friday night funkin'

@Reajes_CocoKola 8 months ago maybe... Now I'm stuck with being iron at valorant lmaoo

Looks really cool, thank you for the tip

You could subtract your offset from your song position. So when you set song position to playback_position + time_since_last_mix - get_output_latency just add -offset there as well I'd say? Might need to add a condition after that to make sure the resulting song position > 0 before reporting beats.

@@legiongames2400 Thank you for the answer, I'll try in that way!! :)

Counting beats :D

Looking in to it more it looks like the song_position_in_beats resets to 0 (or -1) and it is the last_reported_beat the doesn't. I figured out a workaround something like.....if last_reported_beat > song_position_in_beat then set them both to -1. Seems to skip sometimes though. anyone know of a better way??

I can try to help but I honestly wrote this so long ago. Did you download the project or did you rewrite your own code?

¿La canción sigue sonando y las flechas ya no aparecen?

As far as I know, _physics_process() generally updates less frequently than _process() since _physics_process() runs 60 times a second and _process() runs every frame. In this case, I think I'm doing fewer calculations. You're right though, shouldn't use it since it's not a physics object. Thank you for watching! :)

There's no real issue putting things into the physics loop that dont have to do with physics. _physics_process() is a misnomer and unfortunately causes a lot of confusion. It really should be called something like _fixed_process() to better convey the use case. The difference between _physics_process() and _process() is just the update timing. _physics_process() updates at a fixed rate (default is 1/60 a second) whereas the _process() updates whenever possible. Its up to the programmer to decide whether they want a consistent update or as many updates as possible.

​@@adamsmiddy I looked it up - function _physics_process gets executed always in constant regular delta steps (or at least is supposed to) but you can set it into physics framerate that's 4x drawing frame rate. For rhythm game I think it's better to update info at drawing speed - _process is triggered each frame and is in sync with the drawing, can't say that about physics_process.

@@adamsmiddy This was exactly my impression of the difference. I use _physics just for the fixed delta, it makes me feel more safe :D. I'm not sure why they changed the name though, I know it used to be called _fixed_process in Godot 2 and it is still how most people perceive it. Unless there was both a _physics_process and _fixed_process then and they just merged the two into one? Idk, never got the chance to use Godot 2.

@@NeZversSounds I think it would definitely lead to a more smooth game experience if I uncapped the fps from 60. Didn't know that you could run _physics_process more often than normal _process, thank you for sharing that!

I got my notes to spawn! But I was wondering now if there was a better way to sync the notes to different tracks? Would it be better to make a Conductor scene and script for each individual song? And just in case you do reply, do you know how to make double notes spawn consistently as well as making held/pressed notes? I've only a couple of days under my belt of programming and this is basically the monopoly of rhythm game tutorials. Sorry for bothering

how did you get the notes to spawn if you don't mind me asking? I'm guessing you're in godot 4 as well.@@MiguelGomez-pg6dd

Hey so the way it's implemented in my code is the event only gets fired off once when the player first pressed the input. event.is_action_pressed(input, false) - the false input in there makes sure that "echo" events don't count towards triggering it. Could I see your input code?

unfortunately haven't dabbled in recording with Godot just yet. sorry couldn't help :(

yeah, for sure you'd probably want to save notes into a json and then read that and spawn them as the level is playing. Alternatively, you could just add all of the notes in the editor and just have them be part of the level from the beginning.

Would just have to keep track of which beat you're on and have an array of spawns for all of the beats. I would probably go for a binary representation of spawns so I could store all of the spawns for a beat in one number, so 111 for all three lanes spawned or just 7 in decimal. So something like [ 7, 0, 1, 4 ] would spawn all three arrows on the first beat, nothing on the second, only the left on the third and only the right on the fourth. Let me know if that makes sense.

​@@legiongames2400 I got, it.Thanks! But what should I use to read the array and spawn the corresponding beats? And if I am to make multiple tracks, would it be better to put them in .json files? Sorry for bothering you, I am very much a begginner to Godot and programming in general.

@@chudstation6913 Haven't worked much with reading binary in code, but the solution that comes to mind is save the corresponding beat number in a separate variable, do modulo 4 on it to find out if you need to spawn right lane, subtract 4 if so. modulo 2 to see if you need to spawn middle lane, subtract 2 if so. if 1 remains spawn left lane, if 0 remains don't spawn left lane. Would be good practice to put it in a json, yeah. And no worries.

This is probably way too late, but I think using the pop_front() function would help. It removes and returns the first element of an array, so you might be able to do something like this: var note var chart = [1,0,5,3,0...] note = chart.pop_front() _spawn_notes(note) I haven't tried this, so what I put above might not work. I did make a thing where you can make a non random chart, but I used a dictionary instead of just an array which is probably much more inefficient but more organized. I created a node called chart and attached a script where I made a dictionary with B1, B2, B3, and B4 entries which are all arrays. Each index was one measure, and what the code does is that it sees if each entry had a 1, 2, or 3 and then spawned a note in the lane based off of the number. I haven't played around with it much, but it doesn't seem like it's affecting performance a lot.

Tbh I haven't seen my code from this in like years, but what exactly are you having issues with? The instance() function has been changed to instantiate() in Godot 4

the only time you use instantiate is in the spawn notes function right? I tried changing it and it still doesn't work, I don't know if I need to replace randomize in the ready function as well with something different.@@legiongames2400

@@jasonw2197I was able to get it to work, you basically just need to update the beat and measure signals.

appreciate it man, I'll try that out @@Swirly3844

how did you update them? did you also have to change the instance function to instantiate?@@Swirly3844

Gamesplusjames has a tutorial series like that, it's for unity but you could use it as a reference for the maths/architecture along with this video

@@lochrowley9997 too much work :/ since unity uses C# i could use C#

I've watched it several times and still haven't managed to replicate anything by myself. Mind sharing some tips?

@@pneuma8961 What I'm doing is using the code from the tutorial series linked below as a reference for the maths, then I'll probably end up doing something in between that and this tutorial. more specifically we just need to get the notes to reach the buttons at the right time, then it's just finding a way to check how accurate the player was. I hope that helps. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cZzf1FQQFA0.html