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• Camera movementOzardUntil this module I had the camera as a child of the Runner in the game scene, so the CanvasLayer was not centered on the camera. Looking back into this module previous lesosns I found that the camera must be placed inside the runner scene, so I did that. This made me think about what would happend If I had two players each having it's own camera. So I tried it, I guess the game gets the first camera in order (top to bottom). Is adding the camera to the player a common practice? Are there better ways to handle the camera overlay? I'm super new to game programmig, will we dive into this camera stuff later on the course? 1 1 Jan. 14, 2025
• Is it good practise to create functions separate from _ready()?BONDEGGHi, I've noticed that the _ready() function has a tendency to get quite busy and therefore (for me personally maybe) quite hard to read and follow. In this case, is it good practise, or will anything bad happen if I created separate functions and just called them in _ready()? For example, this lesson I moved the *_finish_line.body_entered.connect* code to a separate function, poorly named *connect_finish_line_body_entered()* and then just called that in _ready(). All seemed to work in this particular case, but is there a reason to not do this? It seems to make it a lot more readable and easy to follow for me at least! ```gdscript # .. func _ready() -> void: # .. connect_finish_line_body_entered() # .. func connect_finish_line_body_entered() -> void: _finish_line.body_entered.connect(func (body: Node) -> void: if body is not Runner: return var runner := body as Runner runner.set_physics_process(false) var destination_position := ( _finish_line.global_position + Vector2(0, 64) ) runner.walk_to(destination_position) runner.walked_to.connect(_finish_line.pop_confettis) ) ``` Thank you :) 2 0 Apr. 02, 2025
• I very much enjoyed this lessonilliterate-spiderI learned that most likely with game character inventories when you open it up it uses a canvasLayer or should use one. 1 0 Mar. 16, 2025
• Why are control nodes not ideal as the root node in UI-based games?SingleMom420In this lesson, you wrote: > This often leads people who don't know about CanvasLayer to use a Control node as the root node of their game, which isn't the most appropriate. If one were to make an entirely UI-based game, like an incremental clicker game, for example, why would it not be ideal to have the root node a control node? Assuming the game only uses control nodes. 1 0 Feb. 01, 2025
• Can I use 'await' instead of connecting signals?DMKI just thought they were more intuitive and allows the code to be 'read like a book', but no one seems to use them in production. Why? 2 0 Jan. 08, 2025
• The scene running side panel is grayhumble-pelicanHello, after adding the canvas layer, the side of the runtime scene background will have a gray range, is this normal?How to deal with it？ This is image links https://imgur.com/a/45mmgdy，Thank You 2 0 Dec. 06, 2024
• The text is not centeredPixAngelHellow there, Is it normal the text appear with a little gap from the left? 7 0 Nov. 26, 2024