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Pixophir

K, cool, thanks :-)

Anecdotal, when I hear Harrison Ford and think of his impersonation of the daredevil pilot (who btw. did not understand the difference between units of distance and of time but who's nit-picking), I also think of his real world statement as a private pilot:

I'm the schmuck who landed on the taxiway.

Fortunately, nobody was hurt ...

fire7side

Pixophir He got that scar on his chin from putting a seat belt on while he was driving and hit a tree.

KanataEXE

So somebody has beaten me on publishing a shmup game tutorial on Udemy.

Tho, he is more on space shooter while mine is more sky shooter (think Strikers 1945).

I guess I should just settle with 2nd place. A lot of things happen in my life, so I should have seen this coming.

cybereality

Nobody was pretty good. Christopher Lloyd definitely delivered.

Nerdzmasterz

I said my farewell to Sims, and flipped open Unity again. I know this is a Godot forum, but, I was wondering if there was a way to imitate the water effect in this shot, as a lot of my games will most likely be low poly in style. Would be awesome even for the surface look- but this also has underwater features which I may or may not use for this.

And the underwater look, if anyone is curious.

Megalomaniak

Nerdzmasterz A vertex displacement shader should be able to do that. But the onus is on you to look up how to do that via unity/cg shaders.

Nerdzmasterz

Mainly asking because I don't really make shaders or materials, I just use them. Still, if Unity drops from the face of the internet, I need some sort of backup for this big project... Plus I can't really do it all on Godot just yet, unless the game was strictly 2D, like all my other successful projects... save one, but it was still 2.5 so probably still counts. I made basic levels in 3D for Unity which is why I'm using it for this one, never did 3D in Godot. I can't really do anything in 3D yet, so I'm susceptible to making games that encounter gimball locks. I still have a ways to go. Hey, at least I moved a cube once. Not that I did much with it.

Pixophir

There are a quite a few examples for modelling waves out there. I've also seen physically based approaches modelling orbital motion in breaking waves, e.g. on a beach. But that's really advanced and very math :-)
2.5d, vertex displacement or geometry shading will do just fine.
Also, living on an Atlantic island i can say that even the most beautiful sunset gets pretty(sic) boring when it happens every evening. I'd rather focus on the task at hand (e.g. making a prototype of a game) than switching engines to and fro.

Nerdzmasterz

Still planning on working on one engine, but I mainly brought this up as I never saw anything quite like the dynamic sky or the low poly water in Godot before. Vertex displacement shader... I'll have to check that out.

The dynamic sky might be easier to imitate with Godot 4, as we now have a sun, I'm just not ready to dig into it just yet, and hopefully, by the time I am, it will be officially released.

Bimbam

Nerdzmasterz
I suspect this is exactly what you need?

You will need to tweak the material though, in particular, the roughness to get the light reflection right.

cybereality

Check this project, I posted the code on Reddit.

cybereality

Did you do the shader tutorials in the docs?

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/shaders/your_first_shader/index.html

Nerdzmasterz

cybereality Actually got sick. I can't study, dev, or anything.

I'll be fine, tho. Just bored.

Audiobellum

Noob question alert. Does anyone know how to replace the texture image of a material for 3d models, after it's been placed in Godot? I want to update the textures of my mesh library in the less painful way possible.( I still keep a tscn screen will all the mesh library pieces, just in case I still need it).

cybereality

You can edit either the material or the scene file. It should update automatically, or maybe you have to press a refresh button after all the changes are made. I've definitely done it, but I recall it didn't work the first time.

Audiobellum

cybereality Thanks. It seems the problem that was holding me up, was that I didn't realize that the texture can be edited separate from the material. 😆 Now I know that this could be moving the goalpost but, do you know of anyway I can delete the the updated png file from the project, while still keeping it's image in the material? When I placed the models in the engine for the first time, it could in the material with the texture image yet with no texture file; is it possible to do that again?

cybereality

You can save the material as a tres file. Then you can double click on it and edit it separately, and it will update any objects that reference that material automatically. Otherwise, you can just use a dummy texture (with the correct file name) and then overwrite that texture by saving a new one in the project folder with the same name and it will also update automatically.

Audiobellum

cybereality Thanks.

Pixophir

In case someone is interested, from the makers of Factorio there's a new title "Sweet Transit". Looks like they have expanded on the train element of Factorio.

Audiobellum

Finally. I YouTube video that perfectly captures why I'm too scared to do a game jam.

Erich_L

Audiobellum I really like how he whispers subscribe at the end.

Bimbam

Wow OK, don't reheat disposable coffee mugs in the microwave! Whole house smells of burnt cardboard :S

How am I only learning this now !?!?

Audiobellum Finally. I YouTube video that perfectly captures why I'm too scared to do a game jam.

Shameless plug, but I did my first earlier this year (and also just released a video about it). I recommend, as it forces you to manage scope creep better which is overall a good thing.

And I just realised what I should have spent my video talking about 🙁

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