Godot 4.4
i’m trying to create a 3d modular snap/grid system for a spell-construction portion of a game. notably i have gotten some portions working but my hand-contructed work is having serious problems with correct snapping, as well as rotating, and selecting for move or remove.
does anyone know of a godot asset in the Asset Library or elsewhere that might do this behaviour more easily?
It’s out of date now, but the only addon I’ve seen for this is GitHub - BenjaTK/criss-cross: A simple Godot addon that adds generic grid classes. · GitHub
while this looks OK, it doesn’t seem to have the other major functionality the system needs; snapping.
for each new added item, it has a lighter-shade cube that needs to be put on/in a node sphere for the placement to function. also, if you remove a block, any blocks only connected to the center through the removed block need to move with it.
Make a 2d system first.
…bruh. i’m asking on the forums because i don’t WANT to make this from scratch, and want to see if anyone has a module/plugin already made that fits this use case.
You probably won’t find a plugin for something that specific. Besides, you haven’t described the wanted snapping functionality clearly enough. In any case, something like this shouldn’t be too hard to implement. Do a 2d prototype and then transpose to 3d, brawh.
well there’s a lot of problems that are faced in 3d not 2d.
1: 3-dimensional snapping nuance(how can the editor tell if i’m focusing on the nearer sphere in overlap or the farther?
2: 3-dimensional click pick(in 2d, its pretty easy to tell which box a click is on, bc a 2d screen and 2d map are easily aligned. in 3d though, its harder and more nuanced and i;ve tried ray-casting to no success)
3: rotation: in 2d, you have exactly 2 rotation directions. in 3d, you have 6.
4: overlap: likewise, its easier to tell in 2d when a potential new sector overlaps existing ones.