It's Time! Start Trying Godot 4 Now 

Every time I see new features I become more and more grateful for choosing Godot over Unity.

Await being so simple, and the fact that tweens can be sequenced like that as single lines, is mindblowing from an ease of use perspective. I was a bit worried about learning Godot 4 but now I'm excited to get started!

another VERY nice use case of `await`: writing NPC/level scripts like literal stage instructions. imagine e.g. having an NPC object with functions such as `say(str)`, `walk(point)`,... which trigger a dialog, make the npc walk, etc and then just internally await being done. then you can just script any interaction like normal code like you would with the tweens (even with loops for e.g. patrolling enemies, or switch statements for dialog, etc) one of those calls after each other and your functions take care of any waiting / state transitions / etc in the background.

This video has singlehandedly gotten me interested in Godot again, thank you for making this!

So much more than this, too. Getters and setters, for one.

It's been a challenge figuring out all the new features. This was quite helpful. Thanks!

Oh I didn't know about the script templates :O It reminds me a bit of Construct and it's build in behaviors, but implemented in a Godot way, really great. Maybe I don't need to rely on Construct anymore in the future for quick prototyping. It needs some work though, it should at least contain a basic top down movement script as well, not only one for a game with a side view.

I'm glad you're back, your channel is like a gold mine, I still remember your great tutorials and I hope you keep doing that from time to time and keep showing news of your good card game

Thank you so much for making Godot 4 tutorials and lessons! I haven't been able to find ANYTHING on Godot 4 until I found you! So thank you! You are a life-saver!! :D

It's great that Godot 4.0 removes boiler plate code and provides reusable code templates to reduce repetitive development from project to project. Woopa!

Super clear and succinct explanations of the features. Thanks so much.

For the algorithm :D

yield actually has a meaning to do with threads, more than python generators yield means that a thread is willing to let go of its current cpu usage and resume later

I'm so impressed by how tweens work now, it's so slick and easy! The fact that it's linear by default and you can choose to change the smoothing function is really convenient as well

i will keep using Godot 3.x for now since i am making an actual game and i don't want it to become broken from updating Godot 3.x to Godot 4.0 Alpha (or even updating again to the next version of Godot 4.0 Alpha once that releases. Godot 4.0 Alpha is called Alpha for a reason). but once Godot 4.0 Stable gets released, i will definitely jump to Godot 4. Even if it means that i'll have to mothball my current game project, mess around with tiny test projects to adjust my mind to Godot 4, and then re-consider (with asking on the forums) what can be done with current technology because Godot 4.0 (and hardware that is commonly used today) is next-gen compared to Godot 3.x (and hardware that was commonly used when i started using Godot 3.2), and then revive the mothballed game project but adjusting it to the new technology. That process will take a while but i think that in the end i will end up with a game that's much funner and juicier because it does not underestimate the power of mid-range phones as badly as it otherwise would (because currently i am really bad with underestimating hardware, leading to silly things like using 3D and the Light and Particle systems as sparely as possible even if heavy use would make the game much better).

Love this video

Great video. I didn't know "connect"was changed. Thanks!

Thank you for this nice video! It really has some nice syntax improvements. I do have a question though: At 11:22 why would you use "tween.tween_callback(button.queue_free)" instead of just "button.queue_free()" since you already need a reference to the button anyway?

Aw, that was such a good video. I abandoned ship with my first attempt at a mini-project with G4 because it was taking so long to do anything, I redid 3 hours of G4 work in G3 in 15 mins. I just lost patience. So, um, could you make another dozen of those vids please? ;)

Bramwell could you show us how to use the tilemap? Baffled by it, no idea how to get a png into it to even start working with it.

Does GDScript 2 do JIT compiling at all? I'm more interested in some real performance improvements.

The new tween system seems to be very unintuitive to me. Great video..!

If you tween two objects with the same tween object, will they tween at the same time or one after the other?

why do you have to use a tween to queue free at the end? why can't you just queue free the button directly

Something I don't get when you do button.pressed refering to a signal, it currently is a boolean value is the button is pressed or not. Why would they remove/rename such a basic value.

Great video, but the amount of breaking changes in the language worries me slightly. Hope this isn't going to end up like Unity in a few years where they keep reinventing the wheel and every tutorial you find doesn't actually work anymore because they changed how everything works since then.

how is the interface different?

Now today it's really time, it's feature freeze soon

More tutorials about GDScript2 please.

Wooooooohoooooooooooopieeedooo

Finally GDScript that is less suck.

Sorry i cant wait that because my gpu is old