Which is somewhat ironic, because I know that “sit and just do it” is the ideal start. Think less about choosing, just pick it up and go.

But I end up spending more time looking up things and getting excited about them.

LOVE2D? Oooh, it’s lua! It can even run on Android! DragonRuby? Oooh, simple and lightweight and fast! Oh wait, Godot just had a new update! Hey, maybe I should get back to programming Java, libGDX looks neat! Damn, Raylib feels like it does many things right! And on it goes…

I overwhelm myself with choices, start a bit then abandon at the second hard-ish hurdle (like menu/interface showing under the map despite lots of fiddling with the Z position, in Godot). So, yeah, just exposing my problem, I suspect I’m not alone in this.

  • kakes@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t there a node that will order its children by ZIndex or somesuch? I haven’t really used Godot much, but I remember that being a useful thing.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devOP
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      1 year ago

      AFAIK, the Z index was supposed to be the definitive thing defining what shows on top of what.

      There was also a weird problem where my map would display on top of characters if I moved to tiles in the negative position (x < 0, y < 0), so I had to make the whole map within positive values.

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      1 year ago

      There is a node for Y-sorting in Godot 3, is that what you’re thinking of? Y-sorting was rewritten for 4.0, so that node doesn’t exist in the latest version.