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Thanks bud, means a lot :)

1. Indeed, pixelise shaders have always seen a bit odd to me as if you have an inbuilt scale function for the screen/framebuffer why bother?! (I suppose the answer is I'm lazy)

2. Each character mesh is split into each body part and has a mesh for each level of damage. The relevant damage version of a body part is simply shown/hidden as necessary. I originally wanted to implement this by swapping the mesh resource in the instance, but Godot doesn't allow for this.

Yeah, sounds could be quieter. I was going for the over-the-top distortion, low-fi arcade sound effects. As with all my games I experiment with things which leads to inconsistencies with various aspects.

Alfred Reinold Baudisch (Pardall)3 years ago(+1)

Thanks for the answers! I have just one more, if I may - as I said this game contains all elements I love about a retro game, so I'm curious about the process :)

Are the levels assembled in TrenchBroom + Qodot or do you do lay down the geometry + texturing in Blender?

MagellanicGames3 years ago(+1)

Each piece is modelled/textured in Blender. Import/export scripts attach collision and the correct materials based on name look-up tables. Levels are then put together in Godot. At runtime the individual pieces are merged into a single room mesh. The runtime merging preserves the collision nodes attached to each individual piece and parents them to the new combined mesh node. I can also choose to have the mesh combining script simply generate a trimesh instead of pre-defined box collision meshes.

Each component mesh can be easily put into a scene and instanced with others to save having to make the same rooms over and over.

Hope that answers your questions, always happy to answer as I love talking about this kinda stuff.

Alfred Reinold Baudisch (Pardall)3 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks again for the answer. Quite an interesting process, very different from what I thought.

Due to what you explained, I researched a bit and found out about Godot's "-colonly" and other extensions to deal with collision objects. That helps the workflow a lot! https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/workflow/assets/importing...

MagellanicGames3 years ago(+1)

If and when it works ;)

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