HobbesHK

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

Agreed! At first I wondered if they had mixed Lanter’s voice in there somewhere, to blend with Hayden’s during the initial transition. Don’t believe they did, but it was so nice to see a live version Anakin that wasn’t all petulant doom and gloom teenager. A bit of redemption for Christensen here too, which is well deserved in my opinion. The Obi-Wan show didn’t really give him much to work with, but this episode did a lot more.

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

You may want to change the fact that web exports don’t work on macOS. MacBook Pro M1 user here. I’m happily running my Godot 4.1 as web exports on my server. Setting the headers is required for any browser / operating system, but things seem to work fine for me on Mac.

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

I took away the 2 .visible = true commands at the end, just to see if they were the culprit. They are not. It appears that the get_viewport().get_texture().get_image() command gets called before the interface elements are turned off, even though the order of code would make me think otherwise.

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

await get_tree().idle_frame

Thank you for this! I just tried it out but unfortunately Godot throws an error on await get_tree().idle_frame : Invalid get index ‘idle_frame’ (on base: ‘SceneTree’).

Could it be because I’m running in application mode, which only refreshes the screen if there’s an update?

As an alternative, I’ve put the code to turn things off into its own function:

<span style="color:#323232;">func turn_off():
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$"%SaveReport".visible = false
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$"%BackMainMenu".visible = false
</span>

I’ve then tried an await turn_off()

The code runs, but doesn’t do anything and the screenshot still gets saved with the buttons visible.

I’m trying both await functions just before the take_screenshot() function like so:

<span style="color:#323232;">	await turn_off()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	await get_tree().idle_frame
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	take_screenshot()
</span>

Am I missing something very obvious here? Any help would be much appreciated!

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

Managed to fix it by using await get_tree().process_frame instead. It seems that idle_frame appears to no longer exist in Godot 4.1?

So my full code for triggering the screenshot function is:

<span style="color:#323232;">func _on_SaveReport_pressed():
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	await get_tree().process_frame
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$"%SaveReport".visible = false
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$"%BackMainMenu".visible = false
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	await get_tree().process_frame
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	take_screenshot()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$"%SaveReport".visible = true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	$"%BackMainMenu".visible = true
</span>

For some reason, I have to await before I turn the interface elements off, and after I’ve turned them off. It now works a treat for my app. Thank you for your assistance!

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

Thank you! I had a look through the documentation and managed to fix the error.

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

Aw, I feel honoured that my little threads are called “official”! Thank you! 😀

Honestly, Wednesday was a very busy day for me, so didn’t get to watch it until yesterday evening. Thanks for opening the discussion up. My thoughts for the week.

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Overall feelingI felt this episode was an improvement over last week’s, but to be honest, given my somewhat scathing thoughts about that one, that wasn’t difficult. There was actually something happening in this one. I’m still feeling conflicted about the overall tone of the show. Ahsoka hasn’t really shown her fun side yet. It’s all very dour and stilted still.

**What show am I watching?**Are we a Rebels Reunion show or an Ahsoka show? I would love the series to commit to one or the other. We have Hera, Jacen, Sabine, Ahsoka. But, we nearly got them together this episode, for them to be pulled apart yet again. And if we’re going to bring the gang back together, where’s my buddy Zeb? I refuse to believe he’s just hanging around in that bar Mando met him whilst all this stuff is going down. It would’ve felt very natural to bring him into the fold as Hera flew off to go and help her friends.

**“Anakin spoke highly of you.” “Funny, he never mentioned you.”**This show needs to stop already with the “this person is a mystery reveal”. Who is this evil Sith? How did he know Anakin? Where did he suddenly come from in an era where Luke and Leia were the last hope? Filoni stretched the lore to its limits by sending Ezra to another universe and making Ahsoka a not-Jedi-Jedi to stay faithful to Obi-Wan & Yoda’s conversations. Also, just, enough with the whole “mystery reveal”.

Those plot points have been done to death. In this episode, quite literally because, did Ahsoka just kill Mystery Helmet Guy? And he just… turned to dust? If he was being sustained to such a degree by the Dark Side, then, erm, hello? If this is indeed the end for that baddie, then, that’s disappointing. I have faith in Dave Filoni, but we’re halfway into the season and I feel like we’re still busy getting started.

We’re finally going placesTook half the season, but it seems like we’re travelling. Disappointed that Thrawn still hasn’t appeared though, when the trailer first launched I thought we were in for an exciting season. It may still turn exciting, but can’t escape the feeling we’ve wasted a lot of time to get there.

**Anakin?**I would love for Ahsoka to have a proper character moment with Anakin, aka the child-murderer. Which, erm, not sure how we’re going to gloss over that one. But this very mystical World Between Worlds seems to be letting all sorts of people in lately. Maybe some Loth Wolves installed a revolving door somewhere?

We’ll see where this goes, though. It’s probably the way for Ahsoka to make it to the other universe.

AgencyI think my main problem with the show so far, similar to the Kenobi one before it, is that a lot of stuff happens to Ahsoka. She doesn’t take control of the situation or carve out her plans. She’s responding to people, attacks, schemes, but her plan so far hasn’t gone beyond “Let’s go fly there and have a look.”

It feels very inconsistent with her character from before.

Also. Sabine handing over the map just like that? Cartoon-Sabine would’ve kicked her ass over that. No WAY, would she go against Ezra’s sacrifice in that manner? Ezra did everything to get rid of Thrawn and helped end the war. Sabine, with her strong moral compass and iron will, would suddenly go, “Oh yeah, screw it, I miss Ezra so let’s help out these baddies get Thrawn back.”

Unless this was part of the plan she made with Ahsoka all along….

….would’ve been great if there had been even a HINT of that, though, if it were the case.

6 / 10 for me.

Which, is painful. I love these characters, but they all seem to be wandering around looking for the plot. I hope they find it soon.

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

That’s a very good point, that Filoni is trying to redeem the sequel movies, but I feel that may be a very challenging thing to pull off. Where the prequels were clunky and clumsy movies, they did have a solid overarching plot with clear themes throughout. The sequel movies, unfortunately, have very little overarching themes or plot.

With the New Republic shown to be an ineffective government regarding the response to a possible threat, and the imperial remnants operating within society, in episode 3 and Mando, that thread is becoming clearer as we lead into The Force Awakens. The rise of the First Order may be the most solid attempt at redemption. Other than that? The sequels are just too much of a mess at this stage to connect with, thank you Disney.

A Filoni-led Old Republic era? That may well give him the freedom to let loose.

Regarding dead people speaking, I think I would’ve preferred Force Ghost Anakin instead. We already know he’s out there somewhere, from Return of the Jedi.

Let’s see what this week’s episode will bring, I suppose!

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

Very excited about this update because it’ll finally fix Godot minimising at random (and getting stuck) on Linux Gnome when using certain extensions. It’s been a head scratcher for a long time!

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

I don’t miss it one bit as a social platform. I just wish that search engines wouldn’t prioritise it as much when I try to find a “how to do….” guide. It’s insane how many Reddit threads (half deleted and otherwise) dominate the results. Just show me a nice webpage please.

Without Adblock detection. And no bloody “how to” videos either. I just want to read it through, thank you.

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

That is SUCH a useful tip. Thank you.

HobbesHK, 9 months ago

Amended the title to also include Ep 2, since they aired at the same time. Good call. 😃

HobbesHK, 9 months ago

As someone who has watched all of Clone Wars, Rebels and read the Thrawn books, I fully get where you’re coming from. Though I think there must be a 10 minute YouTube video of “what to know before watching Ahsoka” somewhere. Rebels is enjoyable (and gets suitably dark in its later seasons) but doesn’t tell an overtly complex story, so a quick primer video would be enough if you don’t want to experience it all.

All the dead space between lines stood out to me too. Ahsoka is obviously older here, but where’s her playfulness and spark?

HobbesHK, 9 months ago

Anyone want to take a guess as to the identity of the third villain lightsabre fighter? Whilst watching in our house, we dismissed “corrupted Ezra” for being too predictable. Then a Night-Sister-resurrected-evil-Kanan was suggested…

I’m not completely opposed to that suggestion. There seemed to be something specific and recognisable about the fighter’s stance…

HobbesHK, 9 months ago

Sooo

These two episodes are set before the end of Rebels?

gizmodo.com/ahsoka-timeline-star-wars-rebels-disn…

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

This one appears to be trending on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8SSTGUZBU

HobbesHK, 8 months ago

Oh, now that could be interesting indeed! And much more exciting than my fears about the theory it’s Fallen Ezra. Because I really don’t want that to be true, but feel it will be.

HobbesHK, 9 months ago

Is anyone perhaps able to summarise these alleged “best” settings? I hate YouTube clickbait.

HobbesHK, 9 months ago

As far as I can tell, it’s all there. Team Hide is definitely there. Loving the controller support, Larian knocked it OUT of the park. Changes the game into a 3rd person behind-the-player RPG yet somehow mapping all the complexities of KBM isometric RPG play onto the game pad? Heaven! Can strongly recommend this way to play.