Tutorial: Pause Menu in Godot 4 

With 4.0 stable out, for anyone following along with this tutorial: the minimum size for the Panel Container is no longer under Rect, but is instead under Layout -> Custom Minimum Size.

To anyone viewing this as of March 10 2023 you will receive an error whilst trying to use SCREEN_TEXTURE. "SCREEN_TEXTURE has been removed in favor of using hint_screen_texture with a uniform. To continue with minimal code changes add 'uniform sampler2D SCREEN_TEXTURE : hint_screen_texture, filter_linear_mipmap;' near the top of your shader."

4:33 Size Flags are under Control > Layout > Container Sizing 11:30 find_node is find_child now The -> arrow is typed just like that. Thanks for the tutorial! Works great in my project.

Quick note for anyone adding this to a pre-existing project: if you use _unhandled_input to control your character/player, your mouse inputs might be blocked. Just use _input instead. PS: I'm new to Godot in general, so if there might be a trade-off I don't know about, but this worked for me.

Just felt the need to comment and say that this is a wonderful tutorial. I've used to create multiple UI pieces for my game, not just the pause menu. Your use of nesting containers to help keep the UI elements fitted to the screen is brilliant and missing from other tutorials I've seen. Great work!

6:55 in stable Godot 4.0, SCREEN_TEXTURE has been removed. The way you now do this is adding "uniform sampler2D SCREEN_TEXTURE: hint_screen_texture, filter_linear_mipmap;" under the other uniform variables. besides that do everything he does

This might be the best godot tutorial on youtube, you explained everything so clearly and concisely. subbed!

This was incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for making this

This was a very helpful tutorial. In addition to a pause menu, I was able to get a working death and restart menu working from the same concepts shown in this tutorial.

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I just started learning Godot a couple of days ago and I'm finding the lack of assets really difficult to deal with in comparison to something like Unity. This was so helpful and super quick to implement!

Love the escape also "triggered" the button animation in the end!

I struggled for like 4 hours trying to get my game to `unpause` with a key press and not have to add a button. Finally caved in to look at videos and this made it look extremely easy. With help from all the comments below as well for updated changes.

you're like the brackeys of godot, very good tutorials

Lots of little great things in Godot 4 it seems! Love these videos man learn so much in such all at once 😀

great content man! Thanks for doing this stuff, also since shaders are still a form of blackmagic to me I really appreciate the simple explenations for them

For anyone not finding the "Size Flags -> Expand" they moved it under "Layout -> Container sizeing -> Expand"

Thank you for this great tutorial. One tip: for the last part (getting out of the pause menu), you can simply add a togglePause function in your gdscript. This way you can keep all of your logic in the Pause menu and no need to use a shortcut

4:13 you can change the font size from the inspector, under "Theme Overrides", in case you don't want to change resolutions ... and yes, apparently this bug is still a thing in 4.0.1, unless i'm missing something (very possible)

Wow, that can be done via Shortcuts too? I never knew about that, nice!

10:55 You could use `:=` to infer the Node type since it is known at "compile-time". It allows to remove duplication of type-hints for either the declarative stuff like the node types, but also works when you initialise from a typed function: For example, if I have this function: ``` func give_me_the_answer() -> int: return 42 ``` Then I can infer the type, so instead of : ` var my_answer: int = give_me_the_answer() ` I can just write, for the exact same benefits: ` var my_answer := give_me_the_answer()` Hope this is useful for the someone. If you want to search for it, it is called "Type Inference" godot. Have a great day :D

6:33 SCREEN_TEXTURE got removed in favor of sth else (I don't get it), but can be added again like this: `uniform sampler2D SCREEN_TEXTURE : hint_screen_texture, filter_linear_mipmap;`

15:22 Is there really any need to ignore the check for the escape key when pause mode is true? I just put this into the pause menu script and it works fine: func _unhandled_input(event: InputEvent) -> void: if event.is_action_pressed("pause"): if get_tree().paused: resume() else: pause()

Any chance we could get a short tutorial on how to get this menu working with gamepad inputs? Pretty please?

For the algorithm

Really nicely edited tutorial! What should I do if my (2D top down) player isn't always in the center of the screen? (The pause menu pops up centered on the player's position, instead of being centered based on the screen itself)

note that the blur background effect can also be achieved without a shader, simply by setting dof_blur_near_enabled of Environment (or CameraEffects in Godot 4). unfortunately though, canvas environment/camera effects do not work at all in the current Godot 4 alpha.

If your wondering where SCREEN_TEXTURE is it is now uniform sampler2D SCREEN_TEXTURE: hint_screen_texture;

I receive the following error in the _ready function in Beta 10: Invalid type in function 'connect' in base 'Signal'. Cannot convert argument 1 from Nil to Callable.

Cool. Godot 4 looks nice.

Nice tutorial. I like the new GD-Script features...

I'm so close to getting this working, I used your fps controller tutorial and slapped the two together, but the issue is that the mouse no longer controls the camera and i don't know why

hey i cant seem to get the shader to work can you please help

I'm having an issue with this tutorial in 4.2.2.stable where the UI is just tiny and on the side of the screen and i can't get it to be big and in the center and if i do stick it to my character i lose the ability to move my camera since it overrides my mouse input with the control node... I can't seem to find how to fix this so if anyone has a similar issue some help would be greatly aprreciated , thanks lads.

it says"expetced data type fo this code:uniform blur: hint_range(0.0, 1.0); how do i fix?

yayyy ui stuff

fyi - i ran into an issue whilst attempting to 'adjust' the unpause animation; i wanted the menu to fade-out more gracefully, and so disabled its autoplay-on-load setting, instead triggering the unpause only when the player exited the menu. i soon discovered that regardless of the settings/overrides i attempted to apply to the menu, it was always visible by default. the animations continued to work correctly (it would fade in and out as expected), but try as i might, i couldn't get the bloody thing to be hidden by default. only then did i finally realise that it required the use of a default animation state; b y duplicating my existing unpause animation, i created a third animation called 'hidden', which executed a hide in the shortest possible timeframe. i then set this to autoplay-on-load, and continued to apply my slower unpause animation programmatically when the user triggered ui_cancel. after a fair amount of cursing, it worked like a charm.

After reaching the end, and even swapping the pause effect with one I wanted more than the blur shader... I successfully learned the tutorial I used for the player control was incompatible with this code. I think it has something to do with mouse look input also being in "unhandled_event". Or the fact that a find_node function does not appear to be within Godot 4.1.3 Stable. May start again from the top with your tutorials; his work, as much as it felt good to follow the tutorials, is more geared towards an FPS project.

for the shortcut: why you don't use the _input(event) function? In my project I wrote in the script: func _input(event): if Input.is_action_just_pressed("pause"): if get_tree().paused: unpause() else: pause() In this way you don't have to navigate in menus and sub menus of components

Thank you

Great tutorial! I've learned so much about stuff I use all the time. I could never get the "duplicate" to do anything in the AnimationPlayer, now it's like facepalm, ta! I see so many comments about things that changed in godot. This is soooooo frustrating, why on earth do they keep on changing things like this? Not cool. Anyhoo, what happened to "find_node()"?? I can't even see any documentation on its disappearance, do we need to use find_child() instead? OOF.

How reliable and safe is it to develop a professional 2d game with Godot and c#? The documentation I find is not complete and details are missing on how to correctly use Godot with c#. Do you have courses to offer with godot and c#...?

Just wondering why all the demos are lagging on my Rog Laptop :/

thank you

find_node("whatever") doesn't seem to want to work in alpha 11, returns "Function "find_node()" not found in base self." You can right click and copy the path to the node manually to paste into the string for get_node("marg/box/whatever") which documentation says is faster anyway.

Godot 4 life

I've decided I don't wanna use the animation, so I usually just toggle the whole node visibility in code, but self.visible(true/false) and self.show/self.hide don't seem to work anymore, at least not for the Control node

cool!

For some reason, when I made the start menu it is pausing also the buttons, even with the mode seted to aways. Can anyone help me?

The menu seems to work properly but when I added it to my FPS controller from your other tutorial now I can't turn around (though my movement keys still work). Any idea what's going on? PS.... Am I missing something or is the handy font size feature at the top gone now?

I'm trying to use this in a project where the mouse is captured and now my mouse movents get swallowed... How do I get around this?

when making the shader i got an error, i did what the comments told me to do but it didnt work and i got a new error and it said Expected expression, found: 'UNIFORM' what do i do

Now I wonder what I would need to do to make sure things aren't clickable behind a window if I were to add in something like a settings menu that is called from here. (or in the way this works: Is "revealed")

what should i do if there's already an _unhandled_input(event): function in my character?

If I hit resume and the pause menu closes I can still hit the quit button even after the pause menu closes, which closes the game

How do I make those arrow symbols that you use??

This doesn't work in Godot anymore, even with the fix for SCREEN_TEXTURE. For some reason the blur doesn't affect 3D scenes. Anyone else had the same experience?

I feel like you overcomplicated the pausing code a bit, if it was me I would've just used _input(event) or _unhandled_input(event) in the pause menu script and toggled the pausing from there just to keep everything in one place func _unhandled_input(event): if event.is_action_just_pressed("ui_cancel"): if get_tree().paused: unpause() else: pause() (also youtube comments really need code blocks....youtube comments really need a lot of things)

1. 3:46 they changed it.... where can I see it? 2. I followed the tutorial but there are 2 issues: 1) for some reason it keeps on the blur effect even after pressing resume, I check the keyframaes and blur is on 0 on the unpause animation so idk what´s causing that 2) for some reason after resume the mouse inputs don´t register until a few seconds later... its like it lags

This videos shader was not working for me and after some Chat GPT i got this masterpeace, Be sure to change the shadder parameters to around 0.002 shader_type canvas_item; uniform sampler2D screen_texture : hint_screen_texture; uniform vec2 blur_size; void fragment() { vec4 color = vec4(0.0); int count = 0; for(int i=-2; i

anyone's blur shader not blurring the sky worldenvironment?

The issue I had which took me a little bit to find was clicking my left mouse button I thought would crash the game. I realized that the menu is always technically there, just invisible, so I was actually clicking quit every time I left clicked.

I think there will be more godot 4.0 coming in soon 😂

16:21 nah you're nice

damn this broke like everything in my code and ive spent hours trying to fix it but idk ima just not do this and make escape quit the game

var likeit; likeit = false; var loveit = true whatever!

with the newer alpha go with @onready var first_button : Button = get_node("CenterContainer/PanelContainer/MarginContainer/VBoxContainer/ResumeButton")

Nice video ✨ Can we go DM please ? ✨👀

get_tree().paused = false does not work anbody know why, same thing with equals true

Get_tree().paused = true. 18 min video in one sentence.