godot-proposals VS Godot-Mixing-Desk

Godot was fine, for the most part, it's a good engine for small games. The main issue was around working together and resolving conflicts with git (Godot isn't really working and constantly kept changing IDs in resource files), and it kept losing data in scenes when the code changed so we had to rebuild things several times. On previous test games we also ran into huge performance issues in the editor when we wanted to do too much work in scenes, so we had to switch to doing most of the work in code.

The worst part was when I had to rip out a bunch of testing code that used @tool for release as it seemed to cause issues when doing a release build. The engine is generally not great when you want to follow clean software engineering (e.g. dependency injection is not possible, I opened a proposal to that end here[1]).

[1]: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/8850

If we had a Mask2D, this would be super easy and straight forward.

So if that's what OP meant, clip_children property won't work. Instead OP needs to use a CanvasGroup parent and the Line2D (with CanvasItem Material in Subtract mode) and TextureRect as siblings, or any of the other methods explained here until we have a Mask2D node.

There is an open proposal to have a compile option for a LibGodot, as a Library https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/6267

Yes, there could be the option to open at least 2 tabs at the same time, when working with scripts. This has probably already been suggested in: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals

I cannot tell exactly where the jitter is from the video, but if it is what I'm thinking of, it is a known issue, see here. There is a proposal to fix this, with tons of discussion here. Try some of the workarounds mentioned in these two links. Game looks great by the way!

It's in the release notes. Here is a link to the pull request, based on this proposal.

Currently not possible: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/7213

As for adaptive music, there used to be Godot Mixing Desk, but it hasn't been maintained for a while. I've seen some small projects pop out here and there, I'm waiting to see if there'll be a conclusive one for Godot 4. In the meanwhile I might try FMod.

Absolutely! Mixing Desk might be up your alley. I also have a version for 4.0 in progress, which is a total rewrite and condenses all the features down into a single node.

https://github.com/kyzfrintin/Godot-Mixing-Desk maybe something like this can be useful? loudness jump can most likely be fixed my normalizing the raw audio in any audio editor though.

As I said, I'm only small time. Super small time. My main project is a Godot Engine plugin, Mixing Desk. My only motivation on this was to help bring extra procedural/interactive audio and music features to Godot, and help make it easier for others to do the same.

Also, I'd recommend modulating your music to reflect the state of your detection. This is easily done with my plugin, mixing desk ;). Something simple like a drumbeat could fade in if you're close to being spotted, to add tension.

Take a look a this plugin https://github.com/kyzfrintin/Godot-Mixing-Desk

Some nice added benefits are an open source behaviour tree system (https://github.com/andrew-wilkes/godot-behaviour-tree), an open source audio solution (https://github.com/kyzfrintin/Godot-Mixing-Desk), the Tween nodes, being able to animate material properties, a functioning navmesh (again, 3D issues on Unity's front; 2D ports don't support side view), no need for weird lighting setups between 2D and 3D, faster scripting with gdscript, the Line2D node (which I use to render and bend the body of the wormy creatures in our latest tweet), and generally just the fact that all transforms are in 2D without needing to worry that my scene view is playing tricks on me.

It's a shameless plug, but if you ever run into any issues with FMOD, my Mixing Desk plugin can handle interactive music like that pretty easily! Adaptive/interactive music is something I've studied for years, and I put it all into that plugin :)

Have you heard of or considerd trying out Godot Mixing Desk? :)

I made one of these :)