Hey everyone,
Happy to see the new forum and I wanted to show what I’m currently working on:
COGITO is a First Person Immersive Sim Template Project for Godot Engine 4.
In comparison to other first person assets out there, which focus mostly on shooter mechanics, COGITO focuses more on providing a framework for creating interactable objects and items.
Basic AudioManager for playing common sounds (needs rework)
Player attributes (component based)
Health
Stamina
Exposure (drains if not within Safezones, for survival games)
Brightness (aka visibility goes up within Lightzones, cumulative to a limit)
Raycast Interaction system
Included Prefabs for:
Carryable crate
Door (unlockable)
Lamp (switchable)
Chest (item container)
Wheel (press and hold interactable)
Hazard Zone (Area3D that drains a player attribute)
Items:
Flashlight (combine with batteries to recharge)
Battery (used to recharge Flashlight by combining them)
Health Potion
Stamina extension potion (increases max stamina)
Key to unlock door
There’s still some bugs but I’m hoping to open up the GitHub for this soon to get more feedback and ideas what to add and improve.
You can see videos showing off the individual features on my Mastodon profile, like this one here: COGITO: Lowering a draw bridge
Thanks y’all!
Still has some bugs and needs more polish and improved documentation before i set it completely public, but it’s getting there.
Feel free to send me a message if you want early access to the GitHub.
Templates are such a crucial necessity for communities, and really helps to nail home how many different aspects of Godot works! I also quite enjoy the focus of interactions instead of a generic FPS template. I’ll be following you and your project .
Hi, third person view is currently not planned to be part of this template.
BUT: You should be able to takethe Player Interaction component from COGITO and attach it to your own third person controller and with some minor tweaks it should work.
This is still Alpha and there’s bugs, but feel free to check it out. Would love some feedback and if you end up using it somehow, please let me know! Would love to see what people come up with.
A previous commit of this had the C# script for the Godot Input Helper plug-in included (even though it wasn’t used). I’ve removed it but I guess GitHub still displays the C# in the percentage.
The project itself is 100% GDScript and will stay that way.
Well this looks cool! I’ve been making a template for potentially making 2D platformers easier to create, but this throws me out of the water!
Having downloaded it, I am concerned with the size. At 2GB, it feels like a lot, and I can’t really see what’s causing it to be so big! Makes it hard to suggest using it for a smaller gamejam project.
I’ve given it a try, I’ll put feedback on issues in Github. But I am very impressed all the same, this feels like a massive step in making Godot a more beginner friendly AND more help improve workflows for more confident designers!
Thank you!
In regards to size: Yeah something is off with the repo. 1.5gigs is just the git dir, so I have to look into that. I’m new to using GitHub so I migh’ve set it up wrong.
If you grab just the /addons/ and the /COGITO/ dir, it’s about 18mb.
Hey everyone, wanted to let y’all know that there have been a few updates and that there’s now a walkthrough video showing off the current features of this template here: https://youtu.be/LYBo1_Qfru0
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to stop by that there has been quite a few updates since the last time I posted, also thanks to a lot of community contributions.
I’m currently working on improving overall flexibility of the included components, a new demo scene to show everything off, and new tutorial videos and a new documentation.
It’s still going to be a bit until, but there’s steady progress, here’s a pic of part of the new demo scene.
Hi! Thought you might like to know I used your template in a gamejam recently to create a horror game. I’ve only used a couple of components, but it was really helpful to get my little horror game up and running. This project really does feel like a big stepping stone to help people make interesting 3D games without having to do all the fidly bits each and every time!
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