Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this lesson I'll show you how to create an on-screen 'Heads-Up Display', which stays on screen in the game as the camera moves. The HUD will display the number of coins collected in the current game level!

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- 0:00 - Video Intro
- 0:12 - Recap (of the last lesson)
- 0:35 - Lesson Overview
- 1:22 - Creating a Reusable HUD Scene
- 6:05 - Adding the HUD to Level 1
- 7:25 - Adding a Coin Image to the HUD
- 8:22 - Aside: Rendering the Coin in Blender
- 12:52 - Adding Test (a Label) to the HUD
- 14:30 - Using Custom Fonts in a Label
- 19:26 - Adding a Second Label for the Coin Count
- 20:36 - Coding the Coin Counter
- 26:14 - Making an Exported Variable (a Pointer to the HUD)
- 31:36 - Updating the HUD Count on Each Coin Collect
- 33:45 - Testing it out!
- 34:23 - Wrap-Up & Outro

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*note: in this lesson I use Godot 4.1
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