The Godot Engine is one of the easier game engines to learn but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some tips and tricks that are hard to know unless you deep-dive into the documentation.
When working as a game developer, every tip and trick to save yourself time and make your life easier counts. So I briefly scoured the internet to find some great Godot Engine tricks (Godot 3.5 and Godot 4.0) and baked them up in a nice bite-sized video, so you don’t have to.
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0:00 Start
0:21 Trick 1
0:51 Trick 2
1:10 Trick 3
1:35 Trick 4
1:56 Trick 5
2:35 Trick 6
2:49 Trick 7
3:02 Trick 8
3:18 Trick 9
3:41 Trick 10
4:07 Trick 11
4:22 Trick 12
4:41 Trick 13
5:17 Send In Your Own Tips and Tricks!
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Have any tips and tricks for the Godot Engine of your own? Let me know in the comments and I'll include it in another video!
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Saul Goodman dubbing Godot Hack videos. Well done.
Wow trick 10 is really useful in all langs and interactions with GD
Hmm this seems only geared towards gd script devs but all still great tips!
This aged well
2023 is indeed the year of godot, good catch XD
There are so many good tips!
Gamechanging, thank you
Ghetto engine tricks
Nice list! I only knew about half of these
I just bookmarked this video so I can re-watch it at the end of each day for the next week or so until I get used to using these in my workflow 🙂
Trick 6 doesn't work because left clicking a node closes the script section and opens the 3D/2D section. So the script section closes before it can be dragged into.
bro thank you sooooooooooooooooooooo much
Gold
Godot 4 only:
– Trick 14: Holding Alt+clicking in the Script editor will add additional cursors
– Trick 15: Pressing CTRL+D in the script editor will highlight the word under cursor, if you press CTRL+D again it will keep highlighting and creating cursors for the next occurrences – insanely useful for refactoring or quick searches (I implemented this :P)
– Trick 16: Select anything in the Script editor, then press CTRL+D to highlight and create a cursor for the next occurrences of the selection – almost the same as above, but for arbitrary length selections not only word under cursor. (I also implemented this one)
Why do you have a semi at the end of each line?
Something I didn't realize about color, there are a bunch of pre-defined constants for common colors. If you type "Color." (add the period) and start typing the name of a color, it will open a list of suggestions to auto-complete, and shows a swatch so you can tell what 'salmon' is. Very fast way to grab a color if you just want to test stuff!
Great tips! I consider myself a Godot veteran and didn't know about quite a few of these. This engine keeps surprising 🙂
Hi! I am looking for a shortcut to focus back to the script editor. When I hit F5 to test a game and close it with build in function or F8, the focus is no more on the code window. Have to waste my time to get mouse and click on the editor :/ THX in advance!
nice list
This is so useful, thank you lost, have a great day!
Fantastic! Wish I had known about variable documentation via super comments when I first started.
It's better to pronounce it, go-DOE. Like "Waiting for…".
Great video.. Thank you…
Thanks do much man so many useful tips
As I’ve watched a lot of Godot Tips and Tricks lately, I did really expect that I might know all these stuff.
But MANNNN was I so wrong!!! Those are tons of amazing tips, and I’m absolutely love your content! That’s really great work! Really glad that I found out this channel! Subscribe! 😊😊😊
Another one for my play list: Godot 4 – The Good Stuff. Already added the water shader tutorial the other day.
Where do u get that hdr sky ?
Link please..
it took me years to realize that i can drag n drop images from my file sytem to the engine filesystem to import then, from the engine filesystem to an sprite to use it as texture, or direct to the screen (from the OS or the engine filesystem) to add it to the screen as an imported image…
My brain hurts.
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