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That is true, for sure, but I think it very much depends on what you want to do. For prototyping something really quick, I think it is amazing. Additionally, this opens the gates towards learning about script templating, which can be useful in the long run!

What I'd do would be to leave it with export and then have a common parent for the camera and the Tilemap. Then I'd go one step further and make my Camera2D a class and in that parent I could simply Camera2D.tilemap = actualTilemap (or instead of Camera2D, the name you set for that class). One other way would be to add the Tilemap to a group and use 'get_children_from_group(<group_name>)' Let me know if that helps you! 🥜🥜

@@cashewolddew thanks! Discord also recommended making a group, so I did that and it seems to have worked, but I haven’t fully tested it yet with multiple scenes and transitions

I'm happy I could help! Good luck with your project! 🥜

I really appreciate you letting me know that! 🥜 🥜

Yeah I feel like there are so many things available but it's about stumbling upon them at the right time! It doesn't matter if someone else already covered it, they might not appear in my timeline!

Thanks for the suggestion! Will do one soon, for sure! 🥜

Then, I guess, it was a lucky upload 😀 So glad to be able to help! If you have any other things you're struggling with, I'd love to hear them, maybe those will appear in next videos 🥜

I can't wait for 4.3! I'll make sure to update these tutorials because that version makes things much simpler. 🥜

That's the spirit! I'd love to see that! 🥜

YOU SAW THE LEGO VIDEO TOO???

@@brilliant_Potato YOU SAW IT TOO!!!??????

Hah, fair point :D. Well, math is really useful, of course, but for this scope, you do not even have to know what expo stands for, as the transition name for the exponential in Godot actually is called EXPO.

Glad I was able to help! 🥜

I love to hear that! 😁🥜

Reading comments like yours brings me a lot of joy. The fact that I'm probably saving some people's time or even getting them a bit closer to releasing their game really motivates me to make more and better videos. Thanks a lot for this! 🥜

That's a good question. Well, for one, it would take a lot to change all those settings manually every time. You'd have to take into account the resolution, the aspect ration, the maximum area your camera can travel and the scene you currently are in. The scene is important because you could have levels which are of different sizes. They could be horizontal, vertical or simply very large. With large levels an additional thing comes up, you have to think of a limit to your camera size. This takes all these from you and sets up any level immediately, while also taking into account the size of a tile in your tilemap. Considering these facts, you can decide if this is useful for you. Maybe for smaller projects you wouldn't need something like this, but, in my opinion, for more complex setups this would be a lot of help.

Thanks for letting me know the video helped you! At the time of making it I was not aware that you could specify the source_group, but you're right, it's much cleaner that way. Thanks for letting others know about this! 🥜

Thanks for the comment! What you're telling me sounds like target seeking or even pathfinding. I actually have a video which makes a fish follow the mouse (so basically, one character following another moving "character" if you consider the mouse a character). Wouldn't something like that work in your case? Anyway, I'll make sure to write it down and think of something in this regard in the future if you don't find a solution. Let me know if this helps you! 🥜

@@cashewolddew I have a main character that moves with WASD. There are three monsters that follow him in formation. There are hordes of enemies that spawn and use navigation agents to find and attack the player. As this is going on, the player's monsters attack enemies that enter their radius. The attack as well as their return to their starting position both use tweens. Thanks for the reply! It's probably hard to conceptualize what I'm doing without a demonstration, but thank you nevertheless. I hope to learn more about how tweens operate in the process/physics process function so that I can better execute on this idea.

@@craybarmanhorn Maybe it would be a good idea to make a discord server for people in the community who'd want to help each other. I'll think of a way to apply that.

Hmm, I think you're right. I can see how one could understand that there are some new features for tweens in Godot 4.2. However, my intention was just to specify for which version of Godot this tutorial is, similarly to how I do on most of my other videos. Thanks for letting me know. I'll pay more attention in the future. 🥜

Correct me if I'm wrong, to my understanding get_tree().create_tween is used to make the tween independent of the node and create_tween binds the tween to the node as an alternative to doing get_tree().create_tween().bind_node(self), so there are uses for both cases right ?

@@ChaoszZChannel A tween created with the scene tree will not be tied to the node, meaning that it will keep animating even if the node is freed, but will finish automatically if there's nothing else to be animated. In the other case, you're right, create_tween() called on a node will automatically bind that node to it, which automatically kills the tween when the node is freed. I generally like creating SceneTree tweeners because they can be used to animate more stuff, even if I freed one of the nodes I was animating, but I think this is a very fair point to be made, that there's a difference between these. Thanks a lot for this! 🥜🥜

I'd love to hear from you once your game is finished. Hope it turns out great and I'm glad I could help! 🥜

I'm really glad this is on par with your expectations! I'm happy to hear it has been helpful! 🥜

It's never too late. I'm sure they'll help a lot in the future!

It's great to hear that! Are there any other topics that you'd like to see covered in depth? 🥜

Thanks for the idea! I'll add it to the list!

What I'm doing in 4.2 is basically getting information from the obstacle layer and cutting from the navigation layer. If I remember well, in 3.5, there are no layers, but rather, you have to make multiple tilemaps. Isn't there a way of referencing the tilemap containing obstacles and removing the navigation at those positions in a similar fashion to what I am doing?

I have never tried that. I could check it out, but from what I remember, I didn't see an option to do that. Anyway, as you said, there is AStarGrid2D, which you can use to achieve exactly that. It is not much different than this, maybe just a little more coding. I would be very grateful if you'd let me know if you found out it is possible. 🥜

You are too kind! 🥜

Thanks for the comment! As of now I'm not aware of a way of doing that, but as a hint, I know that when you want functionality better tailored to your needs, you can work directly with the NavigationServer. While it is not as straight forward as the features shown in the video, it is more powerful. Hope this helps! 🥜

@@cashewolddew Thank you, it gives me another avenue to explore. I've seen references to the NavigationServer before but sometimes I am blinded to a feature when there is no node for it.

@@cjmars That's quite understandable! 😄If you find anything useful, I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks a lot for the kind words!

Thanks for subbing! 🥜

Thank you so much! I'm happy it helped! 🥜

Ha ha, for sure! 😄

I was able to try this on Windows and it seems to work. Generally, though, Linux systems are case sensitive, so I would try to be careful in that case.

Sure, I'd like to!