Super Fancy Location Indicator

Tossing

I really want to use this feature for puzzles, but I can't think of a good one lol. Maybe I'll just make objects that do something when you yeet them.

Oct 14, 2021

This was a quick and dirty test but, it was the best I could do. 2D VFX is really hard if you don't want to draw every frame and you don't know how to use shader graph shiz and whatever. I hope I can do better in the future, but uh technically I'm future me and I haven't touched VFX since...

Aug 11, 2021

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April 30, 2022

Chests! Normally they won't initiate dialog but inventory isn't set up so yea... I'll be real with you it's almost been a year since I put chests in and inventory still isn't set up... I got started a few days ago tho, maybe it'll be ready before this summer, fingers crossed.

Stacking

Very useful feature, totally not a pain to work with due to the submenus needed to select what you're acting on and then select what you're doing... I plan to make this a gimmick in at least one dungeon but maybe I should look into streamlining the process before that haha.

Party Follow

So following party members are a bit tricker in 3D. The main issue I need to solve is how they handle being obstructed by something they can scale. I sorta want to put jumping into their state machine but I'm lazy so for now they teleport. I had a slight issue where when they teleported somewhere they could crush the player controller into the ground... it might still be an issue I need to test it more haha.

If you were curious about how their path-finding works it's something like this:

A. Determine the vector between the current position and the player position ignoring the y-axis. B. Add vector to velocity to move in the player's direction. C. If one of 6 ray casts reports collision and velocity is close to zero pick another direction to walk in for a while before resuming from step A.

I could use the built-in navigation stuff Godot has but it needs to be baked and I sorta want to avoid that with how much I like to tweak the environment sometimes. Idk it works well enough for now but there is totally room for improvement haha.

I am NOT stoked to create building textures, but I am stoked to see a textured building... so I guess I have to make textures one of these days.

Battle Scene

Since I had to rewrite everything while porting to Godot 4, I decided to make some tweaks to the battle scene. The UI changed a bit but float text is mostly the same...

Sometimes when someone suggests a feature for my game my internal reaction is "dear god just leave me alone my game is fine and doesn't need to change", because to be honest I am actually an incredibly lazy developer masquerading as a productive one. 🤪