Is the game godot 4.0.1 compatible?

[aayan-infosec]

I tried to setup the game on the latest godot engine 4.0.1 stable. It gave me a few errors.

at first there are some dependencies issue with a. theme.tres, b. SplashScreen.gd

and additional errors like:

BallMachine.gd

W 0:00:00:0025   DisplayServerX11: Error setting locale modifiers
  <C++ Source>   platform/linuxbsd/x11/display_server_x11.cpp:5355 @ DisplayServerX11()

W 0:00:00:0025   DisplayServerX11: XOpenIM failed
  <C++ Source>   platform/linuxbsd/x11/display_server_x11.cpp:5401 @ DisplayServerX11()

W 0:00:00:0041   _create_window: XCreateIC couldn't create wd.xic
  <C++ Source>   platform/linuxbsd/x11/display_server_x11.cpp:5108 @ _create_window()

is this game just going to be godot 3.5 compatible?

[dulvui]

Yes you are right, currently it is only compatible with Godot 3.x versions and I'm using 3.5.2
Godot 4 has breaking changes, so many things won't work and need to be rewritten/fixed.
Once Godot 4 is quite stable, I will migrate it. Probably somewhere around version 4.1.0 or 4.2.0
But if you want to try to fix it already, pull requests are always welcome.

Just found a migration guide
https://gist.github.com/WolfgangSenff/168cb0cbd486c8c9cd507f232165b976

[dulvui]

Migration to Godot 4.1.2 started now

[dulvui]

I retried importing the game into Godot 4.2.2, and after some fixes and migrations, it runs now.

This is a screenshots of the game running, and as you can see, it is quite broken.

I'll spend some more time to see how much effort it is to make it work.
Another option could be "Ball2Box 2" or "Ball3Box", created from scratch in Godot 4.2.

[xolatgames]

Hi! ✌🏼 I want to contribute your projects, and already have create a branch for it (ilyuha-godot4) :

But I can't publish it, because I haven't permission for it:

ERROR: Permission to dulvui/ball2box.git denied to xolatgames.
fatal: Не удалось прочитать из внешнего репозитория.

Удостоверьтесь, что у вас есть необходимые права доступа
и репозиторий существует.

Or in English:

ERROR: Permission to dulvui/ball2box.git denied to xolatgames.
fatal: Could not read from external repository.

Make sure you have the necessary access rights
and the repository exists.

What can I do to contribute your project? 🙃

[xolatgames]

I've change a window resolution because I have a small screen. But you can change it later in Projects Settings -> Window -> Window width override and Window height override .

[xolatgames]

Record-2025-05-08_00.48.38.mp4

[xolatgames]

Record-2025-05-08_02.01.20.mp4

It was fun! 😄 So, can I contribute? 🙃

[dulvui]

@xolatgames Cool great work!

Yes you can contribute, but for that you need to create a fork and there you have the permission to do everything.
Than you can create a pull request from your fork to my repository and if everything looks fine, I will merge it.

Here the official Github guide on how to contribute to a project https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/contributing-to-a-project

If you have questions, I'm happy to help

[xolatgames]

@xolatgames Cool great work!

Yes you can contribute, but for that you need to create a fork and there you have the permission to do everything. Than you can create a pull request from your fork to my repository and if everything looks fine, I will merge it.

Here the official Github guide on how to contribute to a project https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on-github/contributing-to-a-project

If you have questions, I'm happy to help

Thanks so much! I'll do it now 😉

[dulvui]

@xolatgames I tried to merge the main branch, that had a lot of changes in the meantime onto godot4 branch and there are many many problems. I fixed many other bugs in the meantime that miss in the godot4 branch and merging everything is quite a mess.

I'm really sorry, but I think the best way would be to restart the migration to Godot 4 from the main branch, so your work would get lost, but at least I could replicate the steps you did to get it running in Godot 4.
I think I can just look at your commits and see what changed, except you want to try again from the main branch.