What are your biggest gripes with Godot?

[CarpenterBlue]

For me, it's that there is not a one single reliable way of erasing alpha in custom drawing without using shaders or blend modes.
It's always some sort of unholy setup with viewports and shaders.

[pixel-boy]

About masking, the CanvasGroup node and clip_children property of CanvasItems make this a bit simpler than before, although something more practical would be welcome.

For my part, the things I miss most about Godot is a dedicated interface for creating and editing game content.

Imagine a game with dozens of different levels, if I want to create a new level I need to know where the template scene is located, where the inherited scene option is, save this scene in the right place, which is tedious for someone who knows how to do it, and hard for someone who does not know Godot well.
I'd like to have a place that lists these levels without having to manually update it, and be able to just click a "create a level" button to add a new level.

Many games are based on content: characters, items, skills, levels, biomes, monsters, dialogue etc. and it quickly becomes a big waste of time to handle all that.

[CarpenterBlue]

Yeah, sadly for my usecase, CanvasGroup is overkill and way too expensive and clip_children does exact opposite of what I need.
Only solution presented to me was to learn goddamn Compute Shaders and I find that notion unreasonable.

[boruok]

1. Bloatware, its heavy for mobile and web (where size matters) even after stripping.
2. Performance on mobile-web
3. New uid system is nuts. Imagine that you make texture-atlas and your textures on nodes are disappear because (can't find resource at uid://dSAIdasd324)
4. Collaborative work using git, for some reason uid-files changes from pc to pc, imagine you get +400 uid changes and +3 script changes into repo.
5. Protection, every dummy can extract your assets in 3 clicks (6 if you have encrypted game)
6. Oh yeah, found that on 4.x-branch every 1 gui node ads +1 to drawcall.

[Zireael07]

1 and 2 are indeed problems - speaking as someone who mostly targets web

6 was always true, on 3.x too

[boruok]

6 was always true, on 3.x too

Actually, these entire thing cost only 2 drawcalls (1 for 2D-nodes, 1 for GUI-nodes), you can achieve this packing all textures into one atlas (even bitmap fonts). I've tried to do this in 4.x-branch, but drawcalls always stays high.

[Calinou]

Closing, as the scope of this discussion is too broad. This type of discussion is better suited for other community platforms like Reddit: https://godotengine.org/community

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