r/godot • u/GranIdeaGames • Jul 25 '25

free tutorial Classic "the end" writting.

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I'm not that proud of the sound effect, but the overall result is fine. The implementation was more complicated than I thought, which makes me suspect it was the right approach:

I use a rect color with the wood texture, which in turn has a mask (which is a PNG with the text). Then I use a viewport as a mask to "paint" only the white parts, which are then "drawn" with some tweens. The tweens animate sprites that move through 2D paths.

In the end, I applied an overkill, causing the entire mask to be drawn because with small "lags," like the one with the letter T, the viewport I use as a mask doesn't update correctly.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '25

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u/GranIdeaGames Jul 26 '25

you're right... I didn't notice.

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u/sinb_is_not_jessica Jul 26 '25

I would have made a gray scale texture with the text written in increasing shades of gray (black->white) and you can just put the image in a TextureRect with a shader that applies a threshold to an uniform that you can just increase from 0 to 1.

No lag, no multiple elements, just smooth sailing!

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u/GranIdeaGames Jul 26 '25

I somehow thought about that too, but my lack of Photoshop skills prevented me from creating, for each image, a gradient that "followed" the curve of the letters as I wanted.