You were practically unable to move/rotate/scale control nodes inside of containers, and when you tried the containers would often override it and cause weird behavior. This made animating or moving control nodes in general super finicky and messy.

Transform offsets let you offset the control node and move it around without actually affecting the normal transform, allowing you to do cool effects and animations regardless of whether it's a container or not. It's also something you can easily reset or enable/disable so you can just play the animation and move the offsets back to zero, rather than having to keep track of where the node is actually supposed to be.

Looks great, I was never a framework believer because it was so overpriced (to an extent it still is), but this sounds way better and might actually be a good deal. Aside from the specs bump, they fixed almost all of the issues with the older frameworks (CEO talks more about it in this video).

Better build quality and less flex, better screen, better speakers, and a better touchpad. The biggest issue I heard about it was that it felt a bit cheap and wobbly because of all the moving parts, but if they manage to fix that, I might actually get it some day.

TLDR

It's mostly a bug fixing update, but weirdly they nerfed Sister Splinter which I thought was one of the easiest bosses in the game.

Slight increase in pea pod collider scale

Huge! It might not feel like a big difference but this will make pogo bouncing off those things much more consistent

Fixed Snitch Pick not giving rosaries and shell shards as intended

So I'm NOT crazy. I tried them for a short while and was sure they didn't do anything.

Do you mean it works reliably well in letting users through, or in blocking AI?

Both, check out this article talking about it: The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack

Looking at the statistics really shows how dire things have gotten with AI crawlers. The before and after is crazy. There are some other blog posts also mentioning they get maybe 1000x less requests per hour after deploying Anubis.

It's not a thing and I totally agree it should exist, there's a proposal for it on GitHub.

If you want to handle different types, the right way of doing it is giving your parameter a generic type then checking what it is in the function.

func _ready():
    handle_stuff(10)
    handle_stuff("Hello")

func handle_stuff(x: Variant):
    if x is int:
        print("%d is an integer" % x)
    elif x is String:
        print("%s is a string" % x)

This prints 10 is an integer and Hello is a string.

If you really, really need to have a variable amount of arguments in your function, you can pass an array. It's pretty inefficient but you can get away with it.

func handle_stuff(stuff: Array):
    for x: Variant in stuff:
        if x is int:
            print("%d is an integer" % x)
        elif x is String:
            print("%s is a string" % x)

Then you can pass [10, 20, 30] into it or something. It's a useful trick.

Their release page has a rundown of everything new

It's never a waste of time, people usually appreciate the small details. This looks great. Also reminds me of the logo for Osu!

Note that this change hasn't been merged into the engine yet. If you're impatient like me and want to export anyways you can grab this PR's build and no_threads template from the top right here (artifacts) and export using that.

Godot 4 released this year so most of what ChatGPT is spitting out is Godot 3 code which is usually not compatible. That is if it doesn't just give you complete nonsense. I wouldn't recommend using it much.

What you're looking for is a Tween. This can slowly change one value to another, and you can use it for colors. Something like:

var tween: Tween = create_tween()
tween.tween_property($RichTextLabel, "modulate", Color.BLUE, 1)

This will change the label's color from what it is now to blue over the course of one second. You can mess around with set_ease() and set_trans() to make the effect smoother if you need to.

You can turn on "dev mode" in your xbox console to be able to mess around with it and run homebrew, but that still doesn't mean you're allowed to publish your game to Xbox I don't think.

Aside from the fact that it's too late, I'm doubtful this would work in the first place. This could get companies to ignore your image if they detect you've used this, which may be the goal for some but won't stop AI art generators from happening or compensate the artists in any way.

Best case scenario for them is that this does work, and the people making models would just have to use the billions of images created before this tool for training.

• It's light. Compared to Unity which spends ages creating projects, compiling scripts, building, etc. Godot feels very snappy. Unity also generates about 350mb of placeholders every time you create a project, something I always held a grudge against because my drive isn't very big (500gb)

• It's open-source. Obviously a big reason for a lot of people, it feels good not to have to worry about any licenses or a business suit CEO saying devs are idiots

• It's more cohesive. It increasingly feels like you need a lot of extensions to get work done on Unity, and there are like 3 different systems to do one thing. In Godot everything feels more straightforward, and it's batteries-included so you have support for things like Tweens out of the box compared to Unity. Things are generally easier too like Autoloads compared to having to manually make singletons.

• I love signals. Probably the most subjective thing, but for me, I think signals are great and a way better alternative than blindly calling functions on another object. Other engines may have it but usually they don't work very well.