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Explore deeper into Godot's 3D capabilities with Food Fight! Learn to craft a third person action game with mouselook, projectiles and character customisation.
(Our ref: FF_GDT)
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This branch is the course branch, each commit corresponds to a lecture in the course. The current state is our latest progress.
Here are the lectures of the course for this section...
1 Discuss the game we're making 2 Examine the features we'll need to create
Plan out the central mechanics and feeling of our frantic third person action game
1 Create the Food Fight project in Godot 2 Download and install our assets
Get our assets ready and have a quick look at what's included
1 Set up a basic level 2 Add a camera, some lighting and a simple piece of furniture
How to fix center of gravity problems in a RigidBody
1 Create a Character Scene 2 Create a Player Scene 3 Basic Player movement and rotation
How to set up a character with a Skeleton, Mesh and AnimationPlayer
1 Animate the PC when the player moves 2 Have the PC move from one animation to another smoothly
How to blend animations with AnimationTreePlayer
1 Capture and free the mouse 2 Implement Mouselook
How to rotate the camera and player with the mouse
1 Introduce Matrices, Basis and Transforms 2 Identify how these concepts will apply to Player Movement
Identify how to move the Player Character relative to the Camera on the Horizontal axis
1 Add Jumping 2 Change movement so that it works relative to the Camera's horizontal axis 3 Add acceleration and deceleration
Use Transforms and basis to create 3D movement with Mouselook
1 Figure out if GridMaps are right for Food Fight 2 Create some architecture 3 Map out a simple level
Determine if GridMaps are the right choice for your assets
1 Create a template for projectiles 2 Spawn a projectile 3 Have a projectile move whichever way the character is facing
Be able to spawn and fire a projectile in a 3D environment
1 Add food types as ammunition 2 Create a script to scan a directory for files 3 Fire food!
How to scan a directory for files and return the contents as a dictionary
1 Make sure we can only fire once every x seconds 2 Give food a wooshing sound 3 Enable the Doppler effect
How to use the Doppler effect in 3D
1 Create bystanders 2 Create a spawner to fire bystanders across the level 3 Have bystanders vanish when hit by food
How to use has_method() and VisibilityNotifier nodes
1 Create Robot NPCs 2 Detect the PC with a Raycast 3 Limit how many times Robots fire each second
Adding Adversaries!
1 Create a Pause menu 2 Pause the game 3 Unpause the game! 4 Toggle Fullscreen
Learn how to pause and unpause a game in Godot and a cool way to toggle boolean values
1 Create Static furniture 2 Make invisible walls to contain the player
Start filling our level with static furniture
1 Create movable furniture 2 Add one-way transparency to the walls so that the camera can see through them
Fill our level with moveable furniture!
1 Limit Player Ammo 2 Create an ammo refill system
Limit player ammo
1 Add animations for throwing food and reloading 2 Add a Blend3 node in our AnimationTreePlayer 3 layer blending nodes
Layer multiple blend nodes in AnimationTreePlayer
1 Add lives to all characters 2 Have characters remove themselves when they run out of lives 3 disable friendly fire
Making and using enums
1 Create a GUI 2 Display player lives 3 Show how long before the next piece of ammo is collected
Displaying how long we have left to wait in a TextureProgress node
1 Create Game Over and Victory Scenes 2 Display an animated 3D Robot npc within a 2D scene
How to use ViewportContainer nodes to have multiple Viewports in a single scene
1 Display Robot lives in 3D space 2 Allow the game to load the Victory and Game Over screens
Counting lives as objects in the scene and using Sprite3D nodes
1 Create a PlayerTemplate Scene 2 Create a second Player Character
Creating templates from existing scenes
1 Creating a Player Customisation Scene
Better Lighting Techniques
1 Creating a Player Customisation guide 2 Applying textures to meshes at runtime 3 Cycling through lists
How to apply a texture to a mesh at runtime
1 Apply PC customisation to other scenes 2 Have a default setting if the player skips customisation 3 Make sure we don't load a scene in a paused state
Storing and applying player customisation
1 Create a start screen 2 Add music to the game 3 Finish Food Fight 4 Celebrate!
Create the perfect arena for fighting robots with food!