PSA: Godot 4 has many issues with pixel perfect games

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  For the past two weeks, I've been attempting to get smooth camera movement working in a pixel perfect Godot 4 game. You may have seen my previous post about this issue from a few days ago. After countless hours of research and asking various Godot developers and veterans, I've come to the conclusion that Godot 4.0 introduces an overwhelming amount of regressions and undocumented changes that makes this seemingly unachievable at the moment. I'm not going into details here, but the list of roadblocks and factors that contribute to this issue is pretty massive as I outlined in this feature suggestion.

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  Work-around: Here's a PR I made that exposes a setting to turn off the collision outlines. I've been making custom builds with this feature since I found it, but I check back every few months to see if any progress was made. While collision outlines are miles better than where they were when I originally made the issue, unfortunately the core problem still exists.

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  I dunno, pixel perfect tends to be a pretty strict criteria and most major 2D capable engines I have played with have the functionality. For example, Unity has a 2D Pixel Perfect package, and Gamemaker has several community pixel perfect camera assets. Whether those examples pull that off in an effective or user friendly way is a different story, but the functionality is certainly there and it’s definitely a notable use case.

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