Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Thanks for watching! In this Godot Game Engine tutorial I cover how to add Empty Placeholder Blocks to your Platformer Game that are replaced with Solid Blocks when the player finds and jumps on a button or switch. Here are the video chapter timecode links:

- 0:00 - In this tutorial (overview) + example
- 1:25 - Video Intro
- 3:49 - Adding a New Floating Platform
- 5:20 - Two New TileMaps
- 10:34 - TileMap Collision Layers & Masks
- 13:53 - Creating an In-Game Button or Switch
- 20:40 - Adding Button Collision Shapes
- 25:02 - Adding a Script File to the Button
- 26:09 - Writing Down Important Collision Shape Info (into Code Comments)
- 28:04 - The Button's 'Up' Collision Shape Transformation
- 29:32 - The Button's Collision Layers & Masks
- 30:32 - Adding a Button 'TopChecker'
- 33:19 - Detecting a Player on the Button
- 37:43 - Pushing the Button
- 41:09 - Pushing Down the Button's Collision Shape
- 44:07 - Making the Empty Blocks Invisible
- 49:17 - Making the Solid Blocks Visible
- 50:45 - Making the Solid Blocks Collide
- 52:55 - The Button's 'Click' Sound
- 55:43 - Fixing Multiple Button Presses
- 58:20 - Button Location in the Level & in my Demo Game @ itch.io
- 58:40 - Wrap-Up, Social Media, & Call-to-Action

*note: In this video I use Godot 3.5.1

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