Today I was really struggling with the missing support for any type of refactoring in the built-in editor for gdscript - search & replace doesn't count.
And the fact that you cannot move the debugger into a separate window (these value fields are so so small).

I ended up installing Rider. Which has a semi-working rename refactor for gdscript but a well working debugger and inspector. Hot reload works as well.

I hope this PR [1] makes it.

[1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/102380#issuecomment-4109142496

#godot #gdscript #rider

Programming mantra of the day - repeat after me:

Do not erase items from an array that you are currently iterating over.

First iterate, then erase.

I know this by heart but it seems I need a couple of decades more time to not fall for it once in a while 🤣

#programming #godot #gdscript

As infuriating, frustrating and up its own arse as #Python can be, I have to admit that list comprehensions go unreasonably hard. I wish more languages had this. I wish "We have Python at home" #GDScript had this.

I literally keep forgetting that this is a thing because I only use Python for Nikola and then I remember and it feels like cheating somehow.

Significant whitespace is still the Devil's palimpsest and I will die on this hill.

Playbook is coming along - mostly done.
Save seems to work.
But! load seems to work, but doesn't update UI properly. May need to rewrite quite a bit of how it works.
For individual changes, Signals bounce around a bit, updating the individual entry. But when all is loaded at once, I need to send everything, without over-writing values.

#godot #gamedev #gdscript #ttrpg #rpg #BladesInTheDark

tip of the day. Whenever I want to make a gif animation of my godot app or game I use this [1] function to create an image at certain points in the program. Like after sending a signal, redrawing a component or on a timer. I have it in a screenshot class that names them "yyyymmdd-idx.png".

Then I use imagemagick to convert [2] them into a gif.

[1] get_viewport().get_texture().get_image().save_png

[2] convert -delay 20 -loop 0 *.png anim.gif

#godot #gdscript #gif #tips