Godot UI Masterclass: Build a Dynamic Inventory System

Learn to create extensive game user interfaces (UI) and dynamic data systems with Godot by building an Inventory Screen!

Created by: Alfred Reinold Baudisch
Senior Software Architect and Game Developer

What Will I Learn?

• How to implement an inventory and character system and UI from scratch
• Complex user interfaces with Godot, EVERYTHING about making user interfaces with Godot
• Advanced interface programming with GDScript
• Godot Nodes and Scenes fundamentals. Understand what are Godot's Game Objects and Components in depth.
• Godot Control Nodes and UI fundamentals including margins, anchors, layouts, responsive layouts, aspect ratios and more
• How to create an infinite scrolling grid of items, how to split it by pages and how to animate it dynamically
• How to structure the Data Model of an inventory and equipment system, separating items by categories and creating groups of categories,
• How to understand Godot's Container Nodes, Automatic UI Placement and Size Flags
• ow to create Equippable Item slots that accept configurable categories of items and show the items equipped in these slots
• How to create and expand custom Scriptable Objects (Custom Godot's Resources) with different attributes for items and equipment
• Godot's scripting language, GDScript, including the Observer pattern with GDScript's Signals in details, with a sample Traffic Light project
• How to handle and sync One Handed and Two Handed items, while automatically unequipping items if both hands are equipped
• How to create pickable items, dynamically add them to the inventory and list them in the inventory screen, in the correct category

Requirements

• Godot 3.5
• Basic Programming Logic and Fundamentals (Control Flow, Variables, etc)
• No prior experience with Godot, everything about Godot is taught in this course

Target audience

• People interested in getting started with Godot from scratch, and that want to go beyond the basics
• Godot users that want to get better with making UI and screens with Godot
• Developers that want to make Complex and Dynamic User Intefaces
• Godot users that want to learn about Scriptable Objects and Resources in depth
• Godot users that want to learn how to make advanced game systems with dynamic data
• Users from other engines that want to get started with Godot
• Game developers that need to learn how to create inventory systems
• Godot users that want to learn how to create custom Scenes and Nodes in depth
• Godot users that want to learn GDScript in-depth