im not sure if i gave credit to godot for this, but the animation system is so so so much better than unity’s though. i actually really enjoy working with it and 3d stuff (more or less) in godot. i’m still trying to figure out how to precisely attach stuff to bones still, but once i get that i think i’ll have to say Godot’s 3d stuff is better than unity’s (at least, builtin stuff)

so now im trying to serialize/deserialize godot structures for my save/load system, and apparently

• Object.get_class() -> String returns the builtin/native class name from which a class derives, not the name of the actual class
• as of Godot 4.3, there is a Script.get_global_name() -> String which returns the class_name of a script!
• … expect if it’s declared as an inner class, which still has no way to get its name

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i’m currently in the process of rewriting my prototype as gdscript and this language is somehow both too pedantic and too loose at the same time. type “hints” are actually runtime errors if it receives something it doesn’t expect, but this can be fixed by just Removing The Type Hint ??? why

worse yet are the array type hints. if i have the following

var nums: Array = [1, 2, 3]

this is somehow different from

var nums: Array[int] = [1, 2, 3]

and if i want to coerce one to the other?

var nums: Array = [1, 2, 3]
var nums_int = nums as Array[int] # runtime error

i’m realizing that my main game idea’s story is very similar in theme to a lot of westerns and it’s got me wondering if i should go rewatch a bunch of western movies or something

I want more games to follow the #Doom story structure:

act 1: you are Anger Incarnate. your personality is Hatred and Spite. you want to Kill Enemies with a Gun because of Revenge

act 2-5: violence.