Godot 4.4 is pretty exciting, a lot of stuff to look forward to I'm excited for vertex shading, jolt physics, and typed dictionaries in GDScript Has anybody else been looking at the dev blogs? #GodotEngine #GameDev - ThreadSky

wolfmyths.bsky.social • 54 days ago

Godot 4.4 is pretty exciting, a lot of stuff to look forward to

I'm excited for vertex shading, jolt physics, and typed dictionaries in GDScript

Has anybody else been looking at the dev blogs?

#GodotEngine #GameDev

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clutchabuse.bsky.social•53 days ago

I just want them to fix the documented issues with external IDEs and C#.

akwashington.bsky.social•54 days ago

Omigod, typed dictionaries are coming!?!?! That makes me so happy!!!!

wolfmyths.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yes! Statically typed GDScript has some weird quirks, but no typed dictionaries for this long is criminal!

https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-dev-2/#typed-dictionaries

hyphinett.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yeah I saw that gridmap got a little attention too which I personally really appreciate :3

Vertex shading and typed dicts are also super important to me. Maybe I'll get Jolt to behave correctly. Last time I tried it had penetration/depenetration bouncing on a rolling ball project of mine.

thetadelta.bsky.social•54 days ago

theres this thing with shaders and lag spikes i hope will be fixed in 4.4 :3

wolfmyths.bsky.social•54 days ago

It could be the engine caching/compiling shaders, but if it's something that won't go away its probably something else then

Theres a bunch of performance improvements in 4.4, so it might get fixed!

thetadelta.bsky.social•54 days ago

its something to do with using shaders for the first time and it says on github it will be fixed in 4.4
:3

matesrsen.bsky.social•53 days ago

Yeah the ubershader implementation is already merged in 4.4 dev, PSO compilation spikes are no longer a thing.

localpsychic.net•53 days ago

I keep meaning to give Godot a real honest try but I always tell myself "you already know Game Maker well enough to make what you want just use that it'll be faster"

But one of these days...

fletchthebirb.bsky.social•53 days ago

I love anything that has to do with typing. I hope we get multi-typing in the future.

wolfmyths.bsky.social•53 days ago

Do you mean Generics? Those would be nice, there's also the Variant class that kind of serves at "multi typed"

fletchthebirb.bsky.social•53 days ago

Something like func deal_fire_damage(target: Enemy, Item) because what fire damage does to an enemy might be different than how it affects an item on the ground.

wolfmyths.bsky.social•53 days ago

You can pass in functions in function params, so maybe the hurtbox's hurt abstract method will be able to take a list of functions?

wolfmyths.bsky.social•53 days ago

In that example I'm sure there are workarounds using Godot's node system

Create a hitbox node for the fireball and create a hurtbox node for the item and enemy, the hitbox's job is to send data to the hurtbox, maybe the enemy will be given a fire debuff node that drains their hp

bvnanadev.bsky.social•54 days ago

yeah!! I'm also really looking forward to them adding fuzzy search to the files menu!

wolfmyths.bsky.social•54 days ago

I looked it up, but I'm unsure what fuzzy search is. It seems like a more accessible regular expression?

bvnanadev.bsky.social•54 days ago

it basically makes the search much more forgiving of typos! if you've ever used the file search in any other text editor and found it much easier to work with than the one in godot, it's cause they usually have that, it's a really good QoL feature!

alapidis.bsky.social•53 days ago

I’m excited the window won’t keep going back to maximized every time I restart the editor.

myles.redplanetgames.co•53 days ago

Finally!!!

keyboardmoss.bsky.social•53 days ago

The embedded game window is great and wasn't something I was expecting to find as useful. Being able to tick a single frame over let me fix a couple bugs I never had the time to look into.

keithjones.bsky.social•53 days ago

I love being able to click on an object in-game to open it in the inspector.

adaigal.bsky.social•54 days ago

I haven't been reading them but I should really start hehe 😅

slavicbrat.bsky.social•54 days ago

Also, embedded game window in the editor

7lear.bsky.social•54 days ago

really excited for the object snapping!!

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