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AnimationPlayer

Plays and queues handmade animations

Use it when

You need animations that have a known start and end point, and you want to control the timing of the animation

Examples

  • Fading the screen to black
  • Designing an explosion animation for a weapon
  • Creating a gun reload animation
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AudioStreamPlayer

Plays sound and music

Use it when

You need to play any audio in the game

Examples

  • Playing background music or looping ambiances
  • Playing footsteps sounds in sync with a character's animation
  • Playing voice-overs for dialogues
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Timer

Counts time and triggers events

Use it when

You need to count time, delay code execution, or trigger events after a set amount of time once or repeatedly

Examples

  • Creating a cooldown time for a special ability
  • Spawning enemies at regular time intervals
  • Implementing a game timer that you can pause and resume
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Tween

Animates properties procedurally

Use it when

You want to animate a property of a node, and you don't know the start or end points of the animation in advance

Examples

  • Animating items the player collects in the game world flying towards the user interface
  • Animating cards moving from a deck to different positions in the player's hand
  • Moving a character to the position of a mouse click in a point-and-click game
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