Dodge the Creeps tutorial

bartje

I'm a complete newbie here, so if I missed something, let me know :-) Learning Godot with 'Dodge the Creeps' I want to point out some things. (using Godot Engine v3.2.3.stable.official on Linux)

I think I found a mistake in the tutorial. In the chapter about the enemies, there is 'CapsuleShape2D' . I couldn't find that node, I guess it should be 'CollisionShape2D'.

[EDIT] another thing that I don't get, that is when pressing the play button, the option to choose which script to start from, as described in the tutorial when testing the code after coding 'Main.gd'

Because I don't get the enemies to show up in the test after the chapter about the 'main' scene, I decided to look for, and I found the finished game code. First thing I always do when using existing code to check my code, is testing it. To my surprise I found out it does not work, when debugging the downloaded code it did not run. After pressing the start button, nothing happens, and no errors are shown.

So, I don't quite trust the tutorial because of the error (what else can be wrong), and I don't trust the downloadable code of the finished project because it doesn't play...

TwistedTwigleg

@bartje said: I'm a complete newbie here, so if I missed something, let me know :-) Learning Godot with 'Dodge the Creeps' I want to point out some things. (using Godot Engine v3.2.3.stable.official on Linux)

Welcome to the forums @bartje!

While you are free to leave feedback for the documentation here, this is the Godot community forums and the main Godot developers, including those who do the documentation, sadly are not very active here. I would suggest making any recommendations for the documentation on the Godot Documentation Repository if you want it to be seen by those working on the documentation :smile:

I think I found a mistake in the tutorial. In the chapter about the enemies, there is 'CapsuleShape2D' . I couldn't find that node, I guess it should be 'CollisionShape2D'.

CapsuleShape2D isn’t a node, but a resource that goes into the CollisionShape2D node. Once you make a CollisionShape2D node, in the inspector there should be a property called shape, where you can make a CapsuleShape2D.

[EDIT] another thing that I don't get, that is when pressing the play button, the option to choose which script to start from, as described in the tutorial when testing the code after coding 'Main.gd'

Because I don't get the enemies to show up in the test after the chapter about the 'main' scene, I decided to look for, and I found the finished game code. First thing I always do when using existing code to check my code, is testing it. To my surprise I found out it does not work, when debugging the downloaded code it did not run. After pressing the start button, nothing happens, and no errors are shown.

So, I don't quite trust the tutorial because of the error (what else can be wrong), and I don't trust the downloadable code of the finished project because it doesn't play...

If its from the official Godot documentation, then please make a bug report, as the tutorial project should work.

As for the trust stuff, while I understand where you are coming from, please note that most contributors that work on Godot does so in their free time without compensation. Because of this, most people do not have the time to actively maintain and support some of the material, so it gets out of date periodically and needs updating (which contributors usually do on weekends when they have the time). I can assure you that if the tutorial was on the official documentation, it can be trusted and it likely just needs updating/fixing :smile:

DaveTheCoder

I did that tutorial about ten days ago, and everything worked. You may want to start over with a new project folder, and try it again. If you get to a step where your results don't seem to agree with the tutorial, stop there, and ask about it here.

another thing that I don't get, that is when pressing the play button, the option to choose which script to start from, as described in the tutorial when testing the code after coding 'Main.gd'

That may have happened because Main.tscn had already been selected as the "Main Scene" in an earlier step. I vaguely recall a couple of trivial things like that in the tutorial.

What's the URL of the completed project that you downloaded? There seem to be two versions, and they're different. I didn't try them, since the project I completed with the tutorial worked.