Components VS Resources | Godot Café | Page 1

frozen spindle Feb 22, 2024, 7:50 AM

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Hi!

I'm new t o Godot and I'm trying to figure out how to make things more modular with composition. Right now in my first screenshot, I created resources and have used the inspector to connect them into my main character. I've also come across Bitlytic's video where he seems to create nodes as components.

What is the reason for using one over another?

It sounds like resources are more as data containers to contain more raw numbers connected to variables across similar items whereas creating nodes adds more functionality..? It isn't super clear to me on the reasoning on one uses one versus the other

eternal sierra Feb 22, 2024, 1:30 PM

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You're pretty much on the right track. This has a clear breakdown of the differences https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/resources.html

Godot Engine documentation

Resources

Nodes and resources: Up to this tutorial, we focused on the Node class in Godot as that's the one you use to code behavior and most of the engine's features rely on it. There is another datatype th...

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Think of resource as static data to load from disk and nodes as scriptable behaviours at run time

frozen spindle Feb 23, 2024, 1:53 AM

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eternal sierra You're pretty much on the right track. This has a clear breakdown of the differe...

That's helpful. I'm using resources as a health component, but that wouldn't work because the health component only loads once and isn't malleable. If the character's health changes from damage, then it would directly affect the resource, which other characters/enemies might be sharing

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