Devlog 4: Fading

Progress continues to be made. Managing entries between lists is annoying, trying to string three dictionary and array variables together is unnecesarily complicated, and working with Z indices is looking to be painful. Making a game is basically solving a billion individual problems without creating new ones and without unsolving previously solved answers.

Some changes this week:

• “Update” system is in place for the most part
• Basic framework for level transitions (multiple floors on top of each other, cleanly fading into each one when traversing between the two)
• Reorganizing nodes for future-proofing

Also here’s a Godot magic trick for fading a level in/out based on the player’s position in an Area2D hitbox:

currentLevel.set_modulate(Color(1, 1, 1, (to_local(player.get_position()).x / $CollisionShape2D.shape.size.x)))

Magic. Not very complicated magic, but still magic.

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