Yuri :godot:

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2026-05-06 14:31:32 UTC

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And the answer is yes, there is persistent cache on the GPU side.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5735/kw/Shader%20Cache
Dropping files from GLCache triggers the stutter perfectly. (Just don't forget to shut down Godot first.) And, more importantly, my shader baker works!
3.5 seconds on startup (stretched for many frames so it doesn't completely block the main thread) in exchange for smooth sailing afterwards.

2026-05-05 18:41:23 UTC

How is Zed so freaking fast? You open it and it just is, it exists, it is available. You switch projects, and they just are, at your fingertips, that exact moment. WTF.
It feels like a trick, like every project is permanently loaded into the memory. This is uncanny.

2026-05-02 14:53:40 UTC

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@nprofile…8epn I am saying that people started to spell doom for the project like AI companies sponsoring Blender hasn't already been the case for a long time. It was a misplaced anger over project receiving much needed funding with no strings attached.
I think it's much different from integrating "AI" into a project. I think many people don't understand how unstable funding is in FOSS. I think many throw "better it not existed at all if it can't exist without AI money" too easily.

2026-05-02 14:38:20 UTC

https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/
I guess that makes some people happy.
I still think the outrage is ridiculous. Nvidia, a military-industrial complex giant, has been a sponsor since forever. AI-loving Meta; Grok's No.1 fan Timmy are sponsors as well. There is damn Meshy even, literally encroaching on artists...
Anthropic is shit, but is it more shit than those companies? Many reacted like something unprecedented has happened, but that's not really the case.

2026-05-01 16:57:18 UTC

Suddenly thinking of Folding@Home running for over 25 years, helping with medical research by using combined power of personal computers (and even PS3 at one point!), being overall successful and valuable, and how its FLOPS footprint is negligeable compared to the useless you-know-what.
Apparently the project has been in heavy decline ever since a big boom during COVID-19.

2026-04-21 11:06:36 UTC

Why is my tilemap data crying like a baby?
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2026-04-12 12:10:32 UTC

I played Ace Combat 7 for 10 hours before I realized that the machine gun is not going to be unlocked — it's always available!
The reason for my confusion is that GUN is indicated with "---" where the ammo is for other weapons, and "---" is used as "no info" throughout the UI. GUN is just infinite...
That's 17 missions of the campaign without firing MG once!
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2026-04-09 11:32:32 UTC

Controls in Godot 4.7 will have enforceable maximum size 👀 It's very useful, though I'm wary of the complexity of changes and the use of AI tools in the related PR.
GUI sizing is already incredibly complex (and brittle) in Godot...

2026-04-08 14:36:24 UTC

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@nprofile…udln Anyhow, my original point was that an image so unstable would be considered a buggy mess 20 years ago. The reasons at the time would be different, as would be the tech. But we'd still criticize games in this kind of state.
And yes, Fallout 4 was a buggy mess at launch with numerous visual bugs.
I don't have top-of-the-line HW. I am bound to play games at unplayable framerates or with constant ghosting from upscaling. Budget or not, games today scale down terribly. And we accept it.

2026-04-08 14:33:20 UTC

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@nprofile…udln This specific recording (as seen in the YouTube video, not my clip) seems very choppy. And it's running on Series X, as per Microsoft's demand for this preview.
I don't know if it uses upscaling already, but in all likelihood it does, with a Quality preset of some sort. No AAA game now runs on consoles without it. Performance mode was locked for the preview.

2026-04-08 14:25:05 UTC

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@nprofile…udln So it's 20 years later and shadows are still only visible without artifacts 20 meters in front of the car...
Except now it's because of RTGL bugs (as seen here) or upscaling (as seen in many other games).

2026-04-08 13:59:09 UTC

I know it's a preview build, but I've been told FH5 does the same thing. 20 years ago this kind of flashing and pop-in would be considered a buggy mess. Today it's just what ray tracing and upscaling does to games, and is considered modern visuals.
(clip by SkillUp)
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/369/429/650/141/556/original/ad5e25310b65e147.mp4

2026-04-04 13:37:35 UTC

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@nprofile…k7jp The depravity on men really knows no bounds! I can accept no body and no head, but an open tag like that would haunt me in my dreams 😬

2026-04-04 13:25:11 UTC

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@nprofile…k7jp All closing tags or just redundant ones? Cause we haven't had a need for the latter ever since XHTML died 👀

2026-04-02 10:42:22 UTC

Didn't ask indeed. You know all is swell when your communication tool starts showing ads that look like a malware.
Also, Last Meadow, it will be really hard to convince me now that you are a legitimate game.
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2026-03-30 11:41:27 UTC

I hope I can undevelop seasonal allergies somehow, like I somehow developed them at 25 years old. I feel like at some point it will just kill me because I would be unable to power through them.
(Yes, I take pills. Pills become ineffective after some time.)

2026-03-28 08:49:16 UTC

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@nprofile…je2k In the gamedev space people have absolutely not embraced it hardcore. Businesses, yes, like in any other field. Creatives did not.

2026-03-28 08:16:22 UTC

It doesn’t surprise me that Russian studios like Owlcat Games are using genai to cut costs. It fits perfectly with how businesses are run in Russia. The whole mindset of the place is stuck in the 90s, just velvet suits swapped for a business-casual attire.

2026-03-09 22:01:18 UTC

Do not recommend taking multi-month breaks from your projects! Turns out, not everything on the backend of my game was working as needed, and now my head hurts from trying to remember how things work 🥲

2026-03-04 16:10:44 UTC

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@nprofile…5q0u Given Remi's recent comments, I'd say it's either a miss from the production team, or they deemed it is superficial and harmless enough to not make a big deal out of it.
If you think they should've rejected it regardless, I concur though.

2026-02-27 14:25:18 UTC

Debugger is such a misnomer! It does NOT remove any bugs, I have to do all the work 😒😠

2026-02-26 13:51:23 UTC

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@nprofile…m4xw I wanted to answer from the position of const requiring constant expressions, so this whole thing would have to be constant, including the condition. Which would be pretty rare.
But I forgot that const can also be used to mean immutable in some situations.
Yeah, that's a fair case.

2026-02-26 13:01:28 UTC

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@nprofile…m4xw At the point of going multiline, I'd just repeat `x =` and use full conditional statement tho.

2026-02-26 12:32:28 UTC

I hate pythonic ternaries on an emotional level. The way they have to be written means you’re using something before establishing that it is safe to do so.
`result = obj.special_method() if obj is SpecialType else 0`
It’s so dirty and an example of aesthetics over logical coherence.

2026-02-25 13:06:58 UTC

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Listen, if you don't like debugging Godot inside Godot, you won't like debugging Godot inside Godot inside Godot inside Godot either
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2026-02-25 12:25:28 UTC

I refuse to explain anything
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2026-02-19 14:04:28 UTC

Not an avid reader, but I enjoy reading physical books. The smell, the turning of pages. The whole ritual of intently peering into pages to decipher glyphs and symbols written within.
In this digital age books also feel more significant to me. Like, if it was worth it to print it on paper, it's worth it to pay attention and read.

2026-02-11 13:04:17 UTC

This might be controversial, but getting paid for honest work is pretty nice!

2026-02-10 15:29:10 UTC

Oh, my first negative review on Steam! I dunno what they mean by that, but at least there are 33 others who recommend Bosca 🥲
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/047/027/653/252/932/original/5ad8b27e2552f4d9.png

2026-02-08 14:10:46 UTC

I wish forward compatibility was considered for breaking changes. Kind of like modern tweens were backported to 3.x as an alternative.
The idea that everyone will always be updating their Godot version is flawed.
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2026-02-03 17:48:28 UTC

When people who have never designed human-oriented things start pretending to be some hidden genius level innovators — it's a giant neon sign that the technology they are hyping up is a useless fad.
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2026-02-01 18:28:05 UTC

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@nprofile…jful I have them delayed as much as possible with manual confirmation, but at a certain point you cannot turn off your PC without applying updates in 11.

2026-01-31 13:28:21 UTC

Anyone else feel the drive to make games because you are simply mad at the state of the games industry and want to do something about it?

2026-01-27 16:33:10 UTC

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@nprofile…3e8h The bugs are coming from inside the house!!!

2026-01-27 10:51:01 UTC

The fallacy of many professional software users is firm belief that everyone is (or should be) using said software exactly as they do. You can see it in their critique and suggestions.
I’m the exact opposite, I’m convinced nobody is using the same tools like I am. And nobody should be!

2026-01-22 19:11:45 UTC

It sucks big time that buying games like Hellblade, Indiana Jones, or Forza means supporting Microsoft, and I can't allow myself that.

2026-01-21 00:09:42 UTC

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@nprofile…vez7 Well, it can't be, because you need to authorize yourself with any of these services. So you can ignore that it exists completely. But still...

2026-01-20 22:32:35 UTC

Fuck, ShareX, why...
You've been my goto screen grabbing tool for years and years 😑
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2026-01-18 16:47:14 UTC

Finally went through the effort of deleting and archiving most of my GitHub repos. A handful will remain as active mirrors, which will get updated as I work on them. The rest are either gone (no value in preserving + forks), or rendered inactive (has some value).
Phew, that was a lot of clicks!

2026-01-16 21:48:38 UTC

Does PTSD ever go away? Or does it keep lurking in the shadows, ready to reveal itself with any trigger? I'm so tired.

2026-01-13 12:48:45 UTC

So, apropos to nothing, how's Bazzite going for peeps?

2025-12-19 16:28:46 UTC

Anybody used itch.io community boards successfully for their project?
I was thinking it might be a good alternative to Discord for keeping discussions public and indexable... And yet, I realize now that I've never ended up on those pages when looking up something online.
Setting up your own boards is such a PITA, and a resource hog, especially if you need an email server as well, for registrations.

2025-12-15 19:53:12 UTC

am i an artist?
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/725/316/663/712/484/original/868d7218a3abdca0.mp4

2025-12-08 16:28:42 UTC

🥁 About a month ago I asked how is everyone managing their sound effect archive...
🎺 And today I'm sharing SLAMY with the world!
It's a super-simple sound library manager with a built-in mixer for quick edits. It's a great help to me, and maybe to you too?
https://yurisizov.itch.io/slamy
Available for all desktop platforms (macOS builds are coming up shortly!), made with Godot, and fully FOSS itself:
https://codeberg.org/YuriSizov/slamy
PS. If yellow is not your color, I'm truly sorry!
#foss #audio #gamedev

2025-12-06 20:06:14 UTC

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@nprofile…tktl No, I don’t. What would be the benefit?

2025-12-06 19:40:31 UTC

I need to move all my projects off GitHub as soon as possible. Surely this will discourage LLM-whisperers from wasting my time.
I already use Codeberg for all new projects, it's really chill!
The only real blocker for me is need to compile C++ for all 3 desktop platforms, and Actions are the only free/cheap way to run on macOS.

2025-12-03 19:27:28 UTC

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@nprofile…7vf6 It really is a very simple tool that I'm making for my own gamedev needs, so I'd say it should be great for gamejams!

2025-12-03 19:21:29 UTC

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@nprofile…7vf6 Well, thank you :)

2025-12-03 19:20:43 UTC

🔊🎛️ I have nothing on Audacity, but my little sound effect library manager now has a simple audio mixer where I can trim, fade, and layer effects directly from the library!
The tool will be FOSS, releasing in a few days 👀
#foss #audio #gamedev
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/657/231/112/350/807/original/9757170be52265e2.mp4

2025-12-02 17:50:02 UTC

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@nprofile…5tsq Oh, by the way, it momentarily skipped my mind at the start of our conversation, but in Godot exiting editing and exiting focus for a text field are two different things.
ESC keeps the focus, but hides the caret and prevents input capture for text input. Editing can be re-entered with ENTER. So your concern is actually respected here, which makes the behavior even more bizarre :/

2025-12-02 17:35:03 UTC

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@nprofile…2x0s In this scenario: the textbox was clicked on first, then the mouse was moved somewhere else on screen which happens to be a GUI element with a tooltip, then ESC was pressed.

2025-12-02 16:39:23 UTC

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@nprofile…5tsq Yep, it is :) I was pretty confused why it took two ESC presses to exit the text field in my app, until I noticed that my cursor was hovering something elsewhere in the UI, with a tooltip, and it would hide on the first press.
Hiding tooltips on ESC also happens in browsers tho, but they don't consume input like that.
RE TAB: We should end up in the same state as at the startup of the app after hitting ESC. So whatever TAB would focus on first from that point would be IMO sensible.

2025-12-02 16:30:38 UTC

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@nprofile…5tsq Hmm, I'm not sure I agree with your addendum here. As a user of any software, I want to be able to escape focusing anything. TAB is to move somewhere else. ESC is to restore the status quo, IMO.
Though here one of the 3 presented options definitely happens :)

2025-12-02 16:24:54 UTC

Okay, this is a pretty bizarre default behavior! What do you think should happen here once you press the Escape key?
A: Text field exits editing.
B: Label tooltip hides.
C: Both.
#godot
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2025-11-29 12:17:13 UTC

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@nprofile…e082 By the way, if you wanna investigate it, this issue has apparently been reported already (and I don't think the PR opened for it right now is good). 👀
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/111656

2025-11-28 12:47:07 UTC

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@nprofile…e082 Even if so, don't worry. main.cpp is a mess, and startup order is a complicated subject with race conditions baked into the problem space. Which is why any kind of refactoring has always been postponed.
It's on maintainers to do the due diligence anyway, not on you :)

2025-11-28 12:15:05 UTC

Something changed in main.cpp between Godot 4.3 and 4.5.1, and now scripted resources loaded with the project theme cause debugger to report bogus errors on startup :/
They still work fine, there is just an validity check failing in the scene debugger code for no good reason.
This means I can't use my scripted textures inside of the theme without causing an error spam. So I have to put them in overrides of individual nodes. Which sucks.

2025-11-24 22:02:45 UTC

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@nprofile…edt8 You have to use relative paths with load/preload.
If `other_script.gd` is next to the script you're trying to include it in, use `preload("./other_script.gd")`.
If it's in a descendant folder, then
`preload("./path/to/other_script.gd")`.
If it's in another folder, then use .. to go up, like `preload("../sibling_folder/other_script.gd")`.
It's a bit annoying at scale, so maybe I should think of some way to help plugin developers.

2025-11-24 20:05:32 UTC

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@nprofile…edt8 Ah yeah, there is a project setting to exclude addons from checks and it's on by default!
I think this is by design, so you are not plagued by errors from other people's code if you use others' plugins. But can indeed catch you off guard if you develop some yourself :D
Let me know if you have any feedback after moving your plugins to this hook!

2025-11-24 19:57:39 UTC

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@nprofile…edt8 Oh, interesting. Yeah, coding this I had no code assistance to catch these issues. But interestingly enough, I did run into various crashes from typing and treating warnings as errors.
But anyway, should be an easy fix! Thanks for troubleshooting <3

2025-11-24 19:39:52 UTC

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@nprofile…edt8 I just tried with 4.5.1 mono, and that's certainly not the cause of the issue. Both installation of the hook and execution worked fine.
I'll try a bit more, but do let me know if you figure out anything about your setup or process that might've caused this problem.

2025-11-24 19:25:39 UTC

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@nprofile…edt8 What kind of error? I haven't tested this with the .NET build, but as you can see from the image this is developed in 4.5.1 specifically.

2025-11-24 18:05:46 UTC

🤓 My last cryptic post? I just figured out a way to create and run GLOBAL editor and project manager PLUGINS in Godot!
Limitations apply, but for editor and PM enhancements it's perfectly workable. This is mostly a proof-of-concept, but may grow into something, if there is any interest 👀
The hook that enables it all:
https://codeberg.org/YuriSizov/glad-hook
My playpad plugin adapted for this hook:
https://codeberg.org/YuriSizov/godot-playpad
Pretty cool stuff, I think!
#godot #godotengine
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2025-11-19 14:12:50 UTC

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@nprofile…g7yf There is no border around any node 👀 I use a non-standard layout, it's the FS dock on the left. Sorry, I might've tripped you here. But you're overall correct with the observation and where the problem lies :)

2025-11-19 14:05:16 UTC

What will be deleted once I press "Delete" on my keyboard?
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2025-11-17 17:11:38 UTC

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@nprofile…lh7t Oh, but the tree already culls items way out of view (otherwise it wouldn't be smooth with thousands of items). I think making items visible just forces them to update, do text shaping, etc, which is expensive. Since all items can affect table layout and column sizes, even culled items need to be accounted for.

2025-11-17 16:41:06 UTC

🌳 UI trees in Godot are pretty speedy, once the text cache is built. 10k items is like nothing, it scrolls smoothly!
Alas, filtering can be laggy. Hiding a TreeItem is cheap, but making it visible is not. At 10k items, if you set them all visible in a single frame, you'll see the tree hang up for a moment.
Solution? Make items visible in batches! Start by hiding everything immediately, then show, say, 1k items in a frame. Repeat until exhaustion. Replace that hang with responsive UI!
#godot
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2025-11-12 22:20:19 UTC

According to Valve, they managed to run pretty much all x86 games (so far) on their new ARM-based PCs thanks to this FOSS project:
https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX
This runs together with Proton to seamlessly transcode Windows x86 games for Steam OS on ARM. FOSS is THAT cool!
#foss #valve

2025-11-11 18:43:04 UTC

🪇 So what's everyone using to make sound effects for their games? I don't mean simple bonks and zinks, but more complex, layered effects.
Packs are an option, of course, but even then you might need to mix things up (and also you might need to go through a lot of packs).
#gamedev #audio

2025-11-07 10:41:10 UTC

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@nprofile…7vf6 I think on BS there is at least an issue with streaming since often the quality improves on some devices or after a few seconds of playback.
But it also probably just compresses more aggressively. It has way more users than any given instance here. I'm honestly surprised by how little compression there is on gamedev.place. That may not last forever though.

2025-11-05 16:52:07 UTC

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@nprofile…lh7t Yeah, the end result of all this will be pretty close to what Selenium does for web. Not sure, though, how useful all that framework be outside of the particular project I'm making it for. Most people don't really need to autotest the editor :)

2025-11-05 16:37:50 UTC

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Does your editor also start placing Suzannes all over the place on its own?
(I don't touch mouse or keyboard until the very end — to stop the recording.)
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/498/049/843/544/017/original/72cb8865f2191b8e.mp4

2025-10-30 19:22:04 UTC

Tweening on an object you are already tweening on may lead to very tweensical results (and hard to figure out bugs).

2025-10-30 11:59:02 UTC

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@nprofile…re4l Thanks :3
Yes, there should be a small delay when the scenes change from this interaction. But unfortunately it cannot be too long to fully appreciate it. Animation is cool, but user expects to see a result of their action.
I will probably shorten the effect too, make it fall off the screen faster. It'd be cool to do something more static with these buttons though!

2025-10-30 00:59:02 UTC

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@nprofile…d0vd Thanks a lot! :)

2025-10-29 22:21:54 UTC

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@nprofile…4m8e Wow, that's a high praise! 😳 Thank you!

2025-10-29 21:52:37 UTC

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@nprofile…8ktq Ah, appreciate that :)

2025-10-29 21:52:20 UTC

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@nprofile…35vy I know! 😭

2025-10-29 15:56:10 UTC

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@nprofile…77yt Ah, fair, RTL introduces a bag of problems and it's performance hungry when it comes to updates.
Would wrapping everything into a custom "effect" be a viable approach? That way you can address each character and change its transform to hide or reveal only a portion of the paragraph, without recomputing and reshaping the text.

2025-10-29 15:07:16 UTC

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@nprofile…clfq Sweet of you to assume I don't know how if statements work ;)
However, this is not the point. The point is that there is no error. The problem is in the engine, who screams in panic about a normal state of things. When I say that I dunno what to do about this warning, I mean that I can't think of a way to shut it up without breaking the intended behavior. Other than this message spam, there are no issues to solve here.

2025-10-29 13:25:29 UTC

This is such a bogus warning. And I honestly don't know what I'm supposed to do with it.
First of all, why would that even be the case. Offsets already handle cases where size doesn't align with the anchor rect. And second of all, nothing actually breaks upon ready as far as I can tell.
Also, what the hell is this implementation. Couldn't you just... call_deferred?
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2025-10-29 08:14:32 UTC

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@nprofile…77yt Do you mean how one would create an editable label for the user? Or something else?

2025-10-29 00:19:07 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v I'd say whatever takes the longest. Same as if you use parallel tweeners and then chain another at the end — it will trigger after the last one finishes.
As for weird types, yeah, some cases may not necessarily make sense. Something like this is better discussed in a proposal though.

2025-10-28 22:27:24 UTC

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@nprofile…jg92 I like you wordplay sir 😼

2025-10-28 20:55:22 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v Like in my clip, I want consistent speed, regardless of the distance. I can figure out how to shorten or extend the duration, but I'd rather say "change the value by (10.0, 20.0) per second". "Per second" is arbitrary here, which is why I proposed using existing duration argument as a unit of time. But it would likely be 1.0 for most situations. The delta is what I want to use first and foremost.

2025-10-28 20:49:52 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v You'd give it a color or vector4 with each component representing respective deltas. The whole point is in providing the delta and not figuring out how to shorten the duration.
Just to be clear, you can already achieve the desired effect by changing the duration manually, that's how my clip is done. What I was suggesting is a convenience tool where I don't need to bother with the duration but can instead say "change value by X units per Y time", and let the engine figure out total time

2025-10-28 20:41:02 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v How would you modify duration to satisfy this idea?

2025-10-28 20:26:53 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v So nice!
As for the name, I agree, it's a bit weird. But I also like that it follows an existing method which modifies how the data from the previous method is interpreted. Consistency is a plus.

2025-10-28 20:24:09 UTC

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@nprofile…p4xc Ah, no, alas. My UI supports moving the cursor away while holding down, so it won't play nice with that. Would've been really satisfying though!

2025-10-28 20:13:35 UTC

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@nprofile…92z3 Heh, "particles" 👀 I'll see if I can find some occasion for them to be spammable!

2025-10-28 20:08:00 UTC

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@nprofile…p4xc Thank you :)
These are my cop-out buttons! As in buttons which I'm going to use in places where I need an interactable object, but nothing specific and unique fits or a distinction would be distracting.

2025-10-28 19:50:04 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v Thanks :3

2025-10-28 19:43:10 UTC

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@nprofile…fynw Ah, thank you :)

2025-10-28 19:39:22 UTC

😩 Oh woe me oh woe!
I made some truly... TEARABLE buttons!
#gamedev #indiedev #ui
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/453/464/615/342/235/original/84fd1b49b3031441.mp4

2025-10-28 16:14:28 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v No, pretty much what I expect it to do. Because it needs to calculate the total duration for curves and easing to work with this approach too 🙃

2025-10-28 16:11:19 UTC

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@nprofile…zjcm Yep, precisely, I don't want to rely on the call order and always keep in mind to `add_child` before setting anything.
It's super inconvenient and introduces "magical" behavior, where things hidden from the call site can drastically change the behavior.

2025-10-28 15:46:27 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v Of course, we can be a bit creative too, and add something like what you suggest, where:
- The duration provided to `tween_property` is used as a time unit instead
- `as_rate(...)` takes the type-appropriate delta for that time unit.
So a line
tween_property(self, "value", 20.0, 1.0).as_rate(0.5)
would mean "tween value from current value to 20.0 with the rate of 0.5 units of value per 1.0 second".

2025-10-28 15:42:19 UTC

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@nprofile…ce6v What I envision is that you'd provide a type-appropriate delta to be applied to the value, say, every second instead of the duration. And the duration would then be deduced from that delta, plus start/end values.
So we'd definitely need a different method signature for `tween_*` methods. So probably a new set of tweening methods then.

2025-10-28 15:35:47 UTC

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@nprofile…zjcm You see, when you instantiate the scene, `_init` is too early to access child nodes, since it is called before the packed scene's tree is reconstructed.
But `_ready` is pretty late, because nodes are available by the time you receive `NOTIFICATION_SCENE_INSTANTIATED`, which happens way sooner. In fact, in code it is just one line — it all happens within the `.instantiate()` call.
By the time you call
inst.some_text = "Hi"
you can already update the label, if you fetch the reference.

2025-10-28 15:31:44 UTC

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@nprofile…zjcm I just explained a use case two messages ago :) When you instantiate the element's scene, you want to be able to set it up immediately:
var inst := PACKED_SCENE.instantiate()
inst.some_text = "Hi"
The setter for `some_text` can set the variable immediately, but cannot update the label immediately, because `onready` hasn't happened yet. But by the time you try to set `some_text` the nodes are actually already there and you can access them, you just have to do it by hand.