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Godot 4 Game Development Cookbook

By : Jeff Johnson
5 (1)
Book Image

Godot 4 Game Development Cookbook

5 (1)
By: Jeff Johnson

Overview of this book

Want to transition from Godot 3 to 4? Look no further than the Godot 4 Game Development Cookbook. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to become proficient with the latest GUI, GDscript 2.0, Vulkan 2D/3D rendering, shaders, audio, physics, TileSet/TileMap, importing, sound/music, animation, and multiplayer workflows. With its detailed recipes, the book leaves no stone unturned. The Godot 4 Cookbook begins by exploring the updated graphical user interface and helps you familiarize yourself with the new features of GDscript 2.0. Next, it delves into the efficient rendering of 2D and 3D graphics using the Vulkan renderer. As it guides you in navigating the new Godot 4 platform, the book offers an in-depth understanding of shaders, including the latest enhancements to the shader language. Moreover, it covers a range of other topics, including importing from Blender, working with audio, and demystifying the new Vulkan Renderer and the physics additions for 2D and 3D. The book also shows you how the new changes to TileSet and TileMap make 2D game development easy. Advanced topics such as importing in Godot 4, adding sound and music to games, making changes in the Animation editor, and including workflows for multiplayer in Godot 4 are covered in detail. By the end of this game development book, you’ll have gained a better understanding of Godot 4 and will be equipped with various powerful techniques to enhance your Godot game development efficiency.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Using NavigationServer2D for 2D projects

In this recipe, we are going to create a background using a MeshInstance2D and four Shape2D instances as walls. We will create a CharacterBody2D with a NavigationAgent2D node to interact with the NavigationRegion2D node that we will add as a parent to the background so that we can create a navigational area where the player can move. We will create a script to move the CharacterBody2D to a target location on the opposite side of the map.

Getting ready

For this recipe, click the + sign to the right of the NavServer3D scene we just completed to add a new scene. In the Scene tab, click 2D Scene. Click on the word Scene in the top-left corner next to Project, then select Save Scene As and name it NavServer2D.

How to do it…

Let’s create a background and walls as a child to the NavigationRegion2D node:

  1. Left-click on the Node2D node and then the + sign in the Scene tab. In the Create New Node window, type nav in the...