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We covered viewports a while back but now we are going to go into a bit more detail, as it’s an important subject. There is a 1080p version of this tutorial available here. Please note, the full screen portions didn’t display properly in the video. One very important thing to understand is, […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 13–Viewports and Cameras Read More
In the previous tutorial we covered Sprite Animation, although to be honest it was more about creating animation ready sprites. The actual way we performed animation wasn’t ideal. Fortunately we are about to cover a way that is very much ideal… and capable of a great deal more than just animating sprites! As […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 10-Animation Read More
Until this point in the series we have only created single scene games. In any non trivial application you are often going to want to have several scenes make up your game. For example you might have a scene for your title screen/intro, then a main menu, then a game playing then finally a […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 6–Handling Multiple Scenes and Global Data Read More
In this tutorial we are going to explore the tilemap functionality built into the Godot game engine. A tile map is a 2D game map composed of layers of “tiles”, which are essentially just a fixed size sprite with some additional properties. It allows you to quickly paint a level and reuse art assets, […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 8–Tilemaps Read More
In this tutorial we are going to take a look at two key topics in Godot game development, Collision Detection and Physics Simulations. Collision Detection is simply detecting if two objects overlap. Physics on the other hand simulates the movement and interaction of game objects based on physical properties. This of course also includes […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 7–Physics and Collision Detection Read More
This tutorial is available as an HD video here. In this tutorial we are going to look at the UI aspects of the Godot game engine. If you have prior experience with other game engines, you will probably be shocked by the number of UI widgets and containers that ship with Godot. While […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 5–GUI Programming. Using Controls, Widgets and Containers Read More
This tutorial is available as an HD video here. Today we are going to look at using audio with Godot. If you’ve used other game engines you will find the process is probably quite a bit different and perhaps a little unintuitive but in the end rather simple and quite power. It is a […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 4 – Playing Sound FX and Music Read More
This tutorial is available in video form here or embedded below. Now might be a good time to pause and look at the life cycle of a typical program, as this can be a bit confusing with Godot yet is something you really need to understand. Every non-trivial game has a game loop […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 3 — Program Lifecycle and Input Handling Read More
In this tutorial we are going to be taking a look at what seems to be everyone’s favorite subject, graphics. We are going to start by creating a Sprite. A Sprite is basically a 2D image with spatial information such as scale, rotation and position. We are then going to take a closer look […]
Godot Engine Tutorial Part 2– 2D Scenes, Sprites, Coordinates and Viewports Read More
Welcome to the first coding tutorial of the GameFromScratch.com Godot tutorial series. We are going to take a quick look at the Godot IDE then jump in and create our first application. I want to say right up front, I am no Godot expert, so if I may a mistake or you spot something […]
Godot Engine Tutorial– Part 1: Your First Godot Application Read More
