The ultimate introduction to Godot 4 

wbt your pygame ce one thats on your github is it a course?if so pls send link so I can buy it or is it an unreleased vid?

Hi.... sorry for going off topic but as this video is the most recent there are more chances you may read it. Just wanted to ask about pygame tutorial vodeo. Can we still refer to it but using pygame community edition? And are there changes we should be aware about?

@@amanterobot As far as I know pygame ce is mostly the same as pygame for now so his tutorials should still work with it I think

Fantastic guide, probably the best guide there is, and what a perfect timing! Keep making these, you are doing *Godot's work*

you are a brilliant teacher. I have never watched any tutorial for more than 10 mins at a time and was planning to do the same with your video but I am at 53 min mark and I don't know If i want to stop or not. I really really like your work. Kudos man. Great work

I'm on the same boat as you. More than 5 years developing in Unity, currently looking around for alternatives after recent events. I mainly work on 2D so so far Godot looks promising, though I also plan on doing some crash courses in Unreal to leave the door open just in case my situation changes in the future.

yeah, it seems Godot is pretty legit now for 3D, and is super refined for 2D. but yeah it's a good idea to have a wide skillset. one thing i've noticed is that getting up and running in Godot is super fast, covering a decade of Unity time. i think it's because now my brain thinks like a programmer and knows what features to crash course on faster. the true value of all that time with unity was that skill "programming" and not just in a single language, but the brain shape to think about it fast. and that transfers for sure. @@Hilipinapixili

The added attention from devs to Godot can only result in more people using the engine and more people wanting to contribute to it, and in turn resulting into a better product.

same@@Hilipinapixili

​@@Hilipinapixili I primarily do animation stuff in Unreal; Unreal being real time in 3D has helped me a lot - its very intensive though Where should I start if I want to learn 2D development?

5:03:00 Direction, Spread, Initial Velocity Min, Initial Velocity Max have all been relocated to Spawn/Velocity/

Thank you! I just got to this section yesterday and was very confused, or atleast more confused then I usually am. I just realized I have to go back and double down on learning the basics of python instead of trying to brute force my brain to know it.

Thank you so much. I don't get why they had to move everything around that much..

Thanks 🙂

Thank you very much, you have saved my life!

It's a valid thing to think about. I used this tutorial to learn godot and then stopped using "step by step" tutorials. This video in full is exactly the kind of thing you'd want to use to learn the engine. After that, figure things out as you go :)

bro this video is really different from tutorial hell

glad it's helping and thank you so much for the support :)

Agreed, he did very well.

yes exactly!

Exactly!

How has the switch been ? It's cool to see the pros watch the same videos as us peasants lol.

Yeah. Same here

lol same here

I worked with Unity for 4 years before the announcement.. from now on only Open Source software.. and I bet after this all mess the Godot Community will grow exponentially and the engine will improve to Unity level and beyond

I first started learning Godot over a year ago. Or well, I tried. Now I'm actually low-key glad this happened because this means we'll have much better tutorials, documentation and help from more experienced game developers and designers, whereas I was relying on somewhat incomplete tutorials which would have some aspects of it broken due to different versions of the engine being used.

Welcome

Actually, I'm here because GMS doesn't have a Linux client. But yeah, unity removed itself as an option

You had to call me out ?

Come on man

Hell yeah brother

i want to be unity dev in starting but after some time i not even start unity introduce new polices which make be to unreal but it was not able to run at 30 fps in my laptop so in jion godot

dude i felt exactly the same i haven't watched this yet but a glowing review like this from somebody in a similar situation makes me hopeful

this gotta be the realest thing ive ever seen

While this may be very true - the bit about learning how to problem solve. I feel like the biggest issue not talked about in development is the historical reasons for the functionalities of these engines. Why ‘this function’ is called here for ‘this reason’ or ‘that reason’. I jumped into Godot thinking I would have to learn how to hard code everything from scratch and learned that there are built in native functions and methods to all this stuff that were developed for the purpose of not needing to hard code everything. This is my first game engine/real programming environment to really ever work with, and I think for a beginner it can become very daunting to think how do I get ‘this’ to do ‘that’ when there is a seemingly infinite number of feasible ways to accomplish that problem. While, yes, there are an endless amount of ways to accomplish a task, there are a lot of native tools that allow for these problems to be accomplished a lot more efficiently and seamlessly that we’re created for the purpose of nullifying a lot of these inefficient ways, that we’re developed over many years within the game development industry. I feel like I’m not learning a coding language, but I’m learning the slang variant of the logic involved. I think this is the most difficult part about learning programming in Godot, again, my first gaming engine. But, somehow, honestly, I feel so safe working in Godot. I don’t know if it’s the programming environment, or GDscripts evolution from Python, but it feels still so intuitive. That being said I would love a better resource to understand the syntax behind all these “magic” methods and in-built functions, something that I could apply to all coding languages, and I am so thankful for this tutorial/teacher’s guidance. I feel like I’m really learning the fundamentals of the logic behind coordinating communication of different nodes within the engine’s environemnt. I am approximately 2/3rd of the way through this video and I feel like I can begin to solve my own problems and guide myself to solve them. Happy programming to everyone! 🫠☕️🕉️

@@themushroomherders someone who understands the difference between cause and effect, remarkable.

@@themushroomherders sometimes I wonder why he's done few things in such ways. So I tried to do it in another way that it is shown in here and I learned why he's done in that way because of that. that happened with me in the signal part for example when he used signals to let the level know when the player should shoot.. I thought that was dumb because now we rely on code on the level and if I want to change to another scene I'm going to have to do the same again and that's not good so I haven't used the signal and try to do everything inside the player(the lazer is separated from the player in another scene but didn't signal the level). and if you are rebellious and you try to do it in more than one way, you learn so much more I think

It's actually 14 hours, RU-vid stopped me at 12 hours so there's a link to a part 2 at the end :P

@@ClearCode lmao nice

​@@ClearCodemaybe should've split the video equally, cause the 11:3 length ratio of the two parts is a bit weird. Also why is the second part unlisted?

@@donaragorn this is like complaining about the plate being the wrong color when u get a free meal.

@@Criticalthinking_ I'm not complaining, I'm simply asking. Sorry if my tone came off as complaining.

Thank you so much! If it helps, I also never thought that I would become the guy who makes LOTR trilogy sized tutorials :)

​@ClearCode I'm glad it was you, thanks for this resource

@@ClearCode Extended Edition length. Think I'm just finishing The Two Towers or thereabouts. Thanks for this, haven't touched anything since GameMaker Studio before GMS2 came out so this is really helping.

However, you get a performance hit. From the docs "This operation is very slow. As such, it is recommended leaving this to false, which assigns a dummy name featuring @ in both situations."

@@kelvinm560 right, you wouldn't leave it enabled when releasing a game but for troubleshooting/bugfixing it's handy.

Thank you very much bro. 🙂🙏🏻

you just saved me from so many google searches THANK YOU

@@guy3480 ah, you are most welcome :)

Thanks for posting this! Had this issue and couldn't figure it out

Thank you! Ran into this issue.

Big Help, thank you :)

god, i thought i was going insane... thx for posting!

@@maksscratch cool, ppl should go and like so this comment stays on top

Legend! Thanks for that.

Similar story for me. Everyone said unity was THE super easy to learn program and now I feel gaslit lmao. Like it's not impossible to learn obviously but it's not exactly intuitive all the time

@@azumashinobi1559 It's definitely harder than many make it out to be, especially since most tutorials don't actually explain the inner mechanics of unity but rather go "do this, then do this". And the fact there's often like 5 different systems in Unity that can be used to achieve the same thing, half of which are planned to be deprecated, certainly doesn't help a lot of the time

@@moldman5694 right I hated the "do this, then do this" style tutorials so much. I like to have a fundamental understanding of what's actually happening and what my options are as opposed to memorizing instructions

​@@azumashinobi1559 did you find this tutorial to be better in that regard?

this happened to me with godot, sadly

Thanks for this!

I wanted to post this as well. Note that generating a 32 bit random number and then dividing that over a number that we know is 2 bits (in this case) just to get the 2 bit modulo may also be slightly excessive and slow. Not that you would notice, but still.

Also you can copy and paste the nodes into the new scene, but I chose to rebuild it because it reinforces the steps in my memory 😊

Have you made anything yourself after watching the Python tutorial?

@@konjecture lol Thats what i ask my self too im just following tutorials and tutorials and never made anything my self i guess Im not Creative

@@abdu11ahh you can try to recreate simple games that you love like minecraft or google game ideas

Thank you so much! And yeah, it took forever :)

thank you this worked for me too

That fixed it for me too. Thanks!

thanks so much dat fixed it but why this happen in 4.2 and what dose it mean 🥲🥲 ?!

Also you can use: get_tree().change_scene_to_file.bind("YOUR SCENE PATH").call_deferred() or var outside_level: PackedScene = preload(""YOUR SCENE PATH") get_tree().change_scene_to_packed.bind(outside_level).call_deferred()

@@sherifOneWay I could be mistaken as I'm a beginner here too (please correct me if so) - but my understanding is that call_deferred() ensures that when we try to change scenes it waits until the thread is empty (ie. it's finished processing everything that it was working on) before executing. If you read one of the error messages it gives a hint as to why this might be desirable: "Removing a CollisionObject node during a physics callback is not allowed and will cause undesired behavior." Essentially what's happening is that we decide that we want to change scenes while we're in the middle of processing the physics - this is because the trigger to change scenes is a collision between the player and the Area2D from the gate. When we change scenes we're basically just destroying the current scene, so all of the physics nodes that are currently being worked on disappear. I guess this could lead to certain physics interactions being missed or not completing whatever they're supposed to be doing. Adding call_deferred() just ensures that all the physics completes correctly before we destroy the scene and move on.

Thank you so much!

did you really just waste $50 dude

​@@joeylantis22 Wasted? Dude, this is a best tutorial for Godot that I found, and it's FREE. If someone is able to donate some money for a good tutorial then why not?

The Money is Well spent and deserved. This Video would be Well Wörth 50 bucks If He marketed it.

​@@joeylantis22 just choose a good place and sleep buddy , nobody likes you.

there is also _init() :P

lol, I was watching the WAN show when they mentioned me :D

Good recommendation, luke

ohhhhh thank you!

This is actually huge to know, lol.

@@AgentChick yes, especially for non-programmers, where they turn off when they see the modulo

i think the funny part is that when he was typing randi, pick random briefly appeared in the suggestions dropdown. It made me go "wait what?" so i tried it and it def did the same thing.

Thank you, solution 1 worked for me.

Solution 1 worked for me as well.

Thank you very much ,1st worked fine

THANK YOU! Option 1 fixed my issue. I went through each item related section 3x before stumbling upon this advice. Cheers!

Thanks!! 1 worked perfectly fine

exactly, i love unity, but not to the point of going potentially bankrupt good luck with godot

X2

Have you completed this tutorial by now 😂 ? I bet you didn't, this is hella boring and it's better to build an actual game and learning through instead of Playing with assets

@@Vivek-qc8qo ur the typa guy to fall into tutorial hell huh?

where can i find the second part?

@@saulmaldonado4607in the description

Did you encounter any issues with the signal player has entered gate? Mine seems to be an operand whereas his isnt

Wow!!! Thanks. 😀🙌

thank you, that's really interesting :)

Thank you so much

that pick_random() method is clutch

I just had this same problem. Thanks for posting this!

Another solution is just using get_tree().change_scene_to_file("res://scenes/levels/inside.tscn") instead of change_scene_to_packed(scene_name). That seems to be working for me to get through the tutorial.

Thanks a lot for your comment, I was stuck on this issue and didn't understand what caused it! For now I'll probably continue the tutorial with change_scene_to_file, just to make sure I don't break anything by trying to implement a workaround ^^'.

Can you please provide an example of your solution?

@@FelisArmis Haha, don't worry I really jumped a gun with it. Just don't use exported Packed scenes and continue tutorial. Later in the tutorial we created something similar, so I needed to scrap and change my solution anyway

There is more of it actually... check the description

Thank you so much!!!

If you have gone through the full course, what are your thoughts? I have slowly enjoyed the months of Godot use, love the new features coming in.

@@stanley8006 After finishing the whole course, I created a 2d game for a jam and I think this is a complete engine with strong foundations. The only feature I missed from Unity was the ability to automatically generate Collision shapes from sprites, but that didn't slow me down too much. Again iterations were much faster on Godot than I am used to so I was able to get a lot more done for the Jam.

so eould you advice me to go with godot instead of unity, I see some ppl saying it's incomplete!!!

Thank you!!