Well hey, you don't need to be a professional! Your C++ journey could start today!

It might be shorter than that.

​@@Madalaski It's surprisingly a lot simpler to learn than i expected it to be! I've been learning it recently for Unreal Engine, and (at least the way UE handles C++) it's been a breeze. Godot's C++ still sorta scares me, the idea of either having to compile the whole engine or use the messy unfinished GDExtension API

@@FlooferLand Core c++ is straightforward, and easy to understand. It's real problems are Project Management (especially when releasing for multiple platforms) and undefined behavior (due to backwards compatibility with C, it's hard to get rid of that) But when you are working with Existing tools (like Godot and Unreal) A lot of the hard decisions are already made for you, so it's a lot more manageable.

Not until they ditch GDScript and focus on C#. I mean - there is increadibly abundant source of libraries, 3rd party integrations and code snippets in C# - why wouldn't Godot utilize this? Even this tutorial does not showcase a C# code. Am I too old already?

Thanks for the support :)

Wahey glad I nailed it with the Octopath reference!

Well hey if you're an expert in a language that's on over 8 million machines... Glad to have inspired you tho! What game did you and your wife meet in?

@@Madalaskiwe met on a old game called Darkages in elementary school. It’s an isometric RPG from Nexon/Kru Interactive.

My heart also goes out to the developers at Unity, who likely fought against this decision as hard as they could. I hope some resolution happens, but the only way I could see Unity recovering at all from this, is if they make their TOCs way more robust like Unreal. No retroactive changes, TOCs are explicitly tied to the version of Unity you're using.

​@@MadalaskiSadly this is never going to happen unless they lose massive amounts of market share. There's a reason Blender is so popular these days. It keeps the corporations in check. Plus is made by the people for the people 🎉. Godot is now in a similar position to disrupt. Seeing how the sponsor and donations doubled in a week! I suspect development may double as well. Unity showing is true colors is probably the best thing that has happened to balance the power in the space 😊 Thanks for the demonstrations and tutorials keep them coming!

Thank you!

Any time!

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We must fight to project Godo(t) and the Ring!

Haha, glad I could help!

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Thank you!!!!! 🙏

Godot and Ring must make it to Mordor

No worries, surprised you didn't find my other 3 tutorials!

Not much skill involved though, just knowledge, experimentation and good ol' fashioned hard work!

Me two years ago: "I'm not interested in Godot! Leave me alone!" Me now: "YEAH GODOT BABY! WOOOOOOO!"

Damn you solved my riddle

I'm not sure that was Renée Zellweger's line... :P

No you're awesome!

Fair enough, I'm looking into making a change to Godot right now so we'll see how that process goes and I might make a video on it :D

You're welcome :)

Haha, thank you!

At this rate Ruble's gonna take over 50% of my subscriber base!

No literally! I don't know if you've read some of the other comments, but there are people out there straight up claiming that Godot has no C# support? Or that extending/editing the engine in C++ isn't viable? Or there are no released games in the engine? The misinformation is crazy.

I'll think about it :)

Haha, well I wanted to grab people's attention...

What can I say, I have a talent

That's another vote for Godot Tutorials!

Haha well it'll be very complex but I suppose why not.

​@Madalaski That would be amazing! Infinitely interesting even if it's not something that would apply to anything I am doing. Even if it helps only 2 or 3 people push features they are attempting to implement that could still be huge for community at large if it gets to the right people.

Thanks, this channel likes you!

You can copy the lighting over to the Pixel World like I do in this video, or you can do some fancy lighting with the sprite itself, really your choice!

Thank you!

No clue who this is. Maybe I should get a new profile...

Oooh that's an interesting one... Since theoretically you're only doing one bout of pixelisation (the environment) and not multiple passes, you probably want something similar to the method I showed at the beginning or in my "Intermediate Pixelart Effect" tutorial. Essentially you want a camera rendering out the environment in one texture that is the same as your screen but lower resolution. Then in the main view you combine both the pixelated environment path and the regular rendering of your characters/handrawn sprites. But in 3D, there's the issue of depth and getting these two values to correctly intersect. In the example I showed at the beginning I failed because despite successfully creating a viewport that displays depth, the 32-bit red channel of the viewport texture couldn't contain the 64-bit depth information. However, someone on Reddit came up with a clever solution which is to divide the depth information between the red and blue channels, using all 64 bits and then combining it back in the mainview. Kind of a hacky solution though, I'm hopefully going to look soon at allowing viewport depth to be queried in Godot...

@@MadalaskiHmmm, yeah I hadn't thought about that issue with the depth. I am using an orthographic camera as well, could be potential oddities in there I hadn't yet considered. Essentially my goal is to capture a look similar to that of the Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga remake, which used pixel characters in a stylized 3D top down environment. Having the environment rendered at a lower resolution while the characters stay at their same size is exactly what I want! I also experienced the ol' method of changing the entire viewport size distorted the characters in an undesirable way. Thank you for writing out your thoughts on this, really appreciate it! I'll mess with it a bit and see if I can nail that look. And welcome to the Godot community, we're happy to have you here!!

The other steps are pretty good too!

Ssssh he's sleeping.

Haha well I imagine the effect is even easier to setup in Unreal!

Yeah it's great for messing with directions and how the sprites display on the screen. Really hope people do amazing things with it.

Could I also display the menu and ui in normal resolution? I am new to Godot

@@WarClonk Yeah with my version of the effect, you can keep the UI at normal resolution

@@WarClonk Sure. You'd render the pixelated/gameplay scene to a viewport and put the UI on top. This way you can also have a smooth camera that doesn't have to follow whole pixels, while still having pixel perfect texturing.

I came down to the comments to wonder if he realized that was a possibility.

Bitte! Sehr danke! (Es tut mir leid, meine Deutsche ist ein bischen arm)

The way that this video has better retention than any of my previous ones... That being said I really do just prefer talking fast that's not a ploy!

Oh wow I had no idea that Unity made you pay for console support now, that sucks! I do know about W4 though, they were the "3rd party" I mentioned ☺️

@@Madalaski It's not a new development. It was always like this.

I don't have all the information but if you have a texture where each pixel is a point on your grid representing where the fog should show, then you can sample the texture with the grid coordinates as your UV coordinates and use that value to disappear/appear the fog. The filtering of the texture should make the affect nice and smooth.

@@Madalaski thanks for that. I usually struggle with the details, like how to make it follow camera, where to place the shader (on canvas item ?), when it’s in a texture with the size of the screen, then need to take the zoom into the account, and it’s not super performant to scale it. Then there’s the issue of isometric tiles translation to shader coordinates and all of the things like that that keep adding up or the solution :) fun stuff

What's insane is that it's STILL GOING

@@Madalaskiwait what???

Well this cements more Ruble content in the future.

In terms of animation, that's as simple as increasing the "sprite_size" parameter on the PixelNode we made. The animation should play withing the bounds after then. You can do the same thing with collision as I did with lighting but obviously that could definitely hit your performance. The "World Linking" bit I show at the end is something I'm experimenting with, where you can set a world in Godot to inherit certain objects from the main world, so realistically it wouldn't take any extra processing. However! I have an even better solution for you! You'll need to edit my code a bit but the only things that need to exist in the viewport's world are the model, animation and the lighting. Anything else (physics, character controller, logic) can all stay with the sprite. Then instead of having the sprite match its position to the character, you just have the character model match its position to the sprite! That should solve your problem with physics :) PS: If the physics needs to read data from the model in some way (like bone collision or something) that's still possible to duplicate the information across and keep all the physics on the sprite node.

@@Madalaski After commenting, it hit me that I might be attaching the node at the wrong place in the hierarchy, and it sounds like I was on the right track. I'm still in my experimentation phase, but I get the feeling I'll be playing around with this concept for a while! So thank you again for the insight. 🙏

@@Madalaski Looks like a followup tutorial, then? I mean, you know. I'd rather find that vid than sift through the comments to know how and what i'm supposed to be doing.

Ironically it's a Unity project I made some years ago. The download link is on my Obra Dinn video. You'll need to do some heavy lifting to get it working proper. I'm planning on refactoring the whole thing in Godot, hopefully its Text features are good!

@@Madalaski That would be lovely! Hee. I do a bunch of random stuff and that's always been a pain point. Thank you! :)

Well you told you me your wish so...

Hmm, last I checked all my pixel art videos are working off of a Unity LTS and build off of each other. Also KZfaq doesn't let me just update videos, I'd have to upload a whole new one. If you're talking about updates from this video, then I should probably mention that one of my comments was not a joke. This version of the effect can't be replicated in Unity without some massive performance overheads, it's only possible in Godot and maybe Unreal.

You'll certainly never reach the Steins;Gate again, I fear.

@@Madalaski It would be fun to watch, though. If my future self plans to kill its past self, on which side should my present self be? This could lead to a battle of me agains myself in the time spagetti.

Have you seen my tutorial? 😅 The concept is almost exactly the same no matter what engine you're using.

@@Madalaski Yup, that's the one. 🌚 Ok, I'll be sure to try that method with Godot. I was just curious whether there's a difference in the process, since I'm not really well versed in coding.

@@thebookofive There'll likely be a difference in setting up the values and actually applying the post processing but the rest of code should be very similar?

@@Madalaski Okay, thanks!

Hey so someone else in the comments had a similar problem than you but the solution was simple so I'll relay it here. Essentially you want to alter the script so the model matches the sprites global position and not the other way round. Then make sure that the only things that are moving to the "pixel world" are your model and any visible children it needs. That way your model will be swapped out for your sprite but everything should still function and your scripts and colliders will just be moving the sprite around, which will in turn move the model.

@@Madalaski I got it working!! Thank you :D Appreciate the help

I mean sure, and I exclusively work with proprietary engines for a living, but there's a lot lot more than just rendering that the Godot Engine can give me.

Yeah, this is a good solution but "low cost" will likely mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Not being a negative nancy! But its the main problem with open-source engines and I figured people should know.

I think that's completely understandable! I think the changes that Unity made are good and there are members of the Unity community that fought like hell to get them (despite a lot of other people sending them abuse for being Unity shills) but the fact that they can now stop supporting the old LTS versions and review the revenue % they take annually, still makes me incredibly worried. I'm glad that engine diversity is becoming more of a habit though!

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Dome Keeper? Endoparasitic? Sonic Colors: Ultimate? Just a cursory google search clears that up.

@@Madalaski Sure Dome Keeper is a game that's on Steam and made with Godot, but it's a game with graphics and gameplay that could have been made in game maker, or even without any engine at all, do you know what I mean? I'd love to see a project that would really put Godot on the map. I'm personally skeeved out by Godot having it's own custom scripting language (no IDE, no proper debugging tools, no package manager, etc etc etc), but game engine space definitely needs some competition, so I'm cheering for Godot to become a real player. Right now it's not, sadly. With Unity you can name a huge list of absolute timeless banger classics, like Subnautica, Hollow Knight, Cities Skylines, Outer Wilds and so on. Godot needs that kind of list. Before that happens investors won't look good on a team using Godot.

Really depends on how successful this video is :)

Yeah that was my plan if I couldn't make the additions :)

This is specifically for pixelating certain objects in-game but not others. Since the effect is in screen-space, it's not as simple as using a shader. I do detail an optimisation method in the video, but some of the changes I want to propose to the engine are about multiple viewports. In this case since they're so low resolution and only have a single objection, the performance hit isn't that bad!

A Code Animator I designed (ironically in Unity) a few years ago: github.com/Madalaski/CodeAnimator It's not great I'm constantly editing it heavily to get it work for my videos. Might redesign the entire thing in Godot xD

Woh hey, none of that language here! I took me 3 years of work to finally get this effect up and running and you're not gonna just give up now! If you're using the script I put up, I actually found an error with it yesterday. I uploaded a new copy, you can get it from the same link: drive.google.com/file/d/1L1BDMuk974VLJFjkEyPp-6L1CddnkE1I/view?usp=sharing You'll need to add the character node to the pixel_node_path array in editor as a new "NodePath" element. Hope this helps!

@@Madalaski you're a legend and an inspiration, lad. I'll be like you one day 👊

@@cmalky It's really nothing, but hey there's no need to be like me, be like yourself! That'll be amazing enough ;)

You'd be better off looking at my Intermediate Pixel Tutorial from a few years back. The basic concept will show you how to add an easy "low res" effect.

Best option is to pixelated in screen space, then superimpose the unpixelated character on top of that. You be able to use the new Godot 4.4 rendering compositors for that easy, they look really cool.

Years of practice, experience and experimentation. Also I have a Master's Degree of Computer Science but to be honest that only slightly helps with the low-level graphics stuff.

The key thing is to never give up! I worked on this project on and off in Unity for over 3 years and I couldn't get it the way I wanted. But with all that knowledge and history, I was able to complete the effect in Godot in just 1 day!

@@Madalaski yeah like I think you need alot of knowledge to do something like this.

@@Madalaski but you will never let the project down? Never gonna run around and desert the project

@@simonw.1223 haha exactly. The knowledge is out there though, almost everything I learnt about game engines was from free resources online. Though my skills have definitely improved over the last 2 years of my career 😁