Gd Script

By Marijo Trkulja

Marijo Trkulja is the author with experience in teaching computer science-based courses and topics. He worked in many computer schools, and lately, he teaches via online teaching platforms. Most of his classes are Slavs Make Games courses and tutorials. In this book, you will learn basic concepts of GD Script from the start, and after it, you will get more advanced knowledge. Examples and exercises to test your knowledge are essential parts of the book. All GD scripts in the book are compatible with Godot's 3 versions.
In addition, a reader can find studies on the net with "Slavs Make Games" titles.
The author wishes you all the best in exploring Godot GD Script.
The initial book is from 2019 and is improved and republished in 2022.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marijo Trkulja
• Release date: Jun 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005183653

Marijo Trkulja

This is a rare fruitful author with books of various genres. He writes about ancient history in his native language in several books and in English about spiritual adventures and modern information technology.The book "Spiritual Adventures of Young Hakun" is one of his first titles, and among the young, technologically educated population it is known for the book "GD Script."He originates from the Aryan civilization culture with the endless spiritual heritage of the VedSuras.

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GD Script

Marijo Trkulja

Published by Marijo Trkulja at Smashwords

Copyright 2022 © Marijo Trkulja

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Preface

GD Script is a Godot game engine script for making games and applications. For example, a developer can make 2D games, 3D games, or applications based on the control scene environment.

Godot 3.1 is free to download from his website. You can download it for different platforms. The game engine is 50—MB in size.

Marijo Trkulja is the author with experience in teaching computer science-based courses and topics. He worked in many computer schools, and lately, he teaches via online teaching platforms. Most of his classes are Slavs Make Games courses and tutorials. In this book, you will learn basic concepts of GD Script from the start, and after it, you will get more advanced knowledge. Examples and exercises to test your knowledge are essential parts of the book. All GD scripts in the book are with the Godot 3.1 game engine.

From 2019 you will have the opportunity to learn from video lessons also. In addition, a reader can find studies, tutorials ans courses on the net with Slavs Make Games titles. The courses discounts can be obtained via author email at [e-mail].

The author wishes you all the best in exploring Godot GD Script.

Chapter 1: New project creation

After opening a game engine for the first time, click cancel in the dialog box and click once on the new project button in a second dialog, and you need to enter a name for your project and create the project in a new blank folder. After that, you can select open GL 3.0 or 2.0 (web project) and click the create and edit button.

Create 2D scene

We will create the 2D scene, so click on the 2D scene button. Action will create a 2D node.

GD Script

You can add the Godot script by attaching it to a node. Click to micro button scroll-like with the green plus sign to add it. You can press the right button and select the attached script also. GD Script is a default script language for coding in Godot. Use a template with a simple code part (default) in the beginning, and later you can select a blank or script without comments. Click create in the attached node script dialog window.

Hello World example

First, we will learn a simple command print with one string, and we can try to see the result of this in the output window. So after starting this scene, we will see the game window and then the output window with our word hello world. First, we will set a variable, an integer, and print it with the print command. Suppose you use a string variable like