Summary.tscn was correctly set up (Label anchored to full button rect,
horizontal/vertical_alignment = 1). But Main.tscn — which instances
Summary.tscn as UI_summary — had per-Label overrides that reset the
anchors back to 0 and shrunk the Label rect to 1x23 px (legacy from
Godot 3 where margin-based positioning was the default), making the
text render in the top-left 1 px corner.
Drop the layout_mode=0 / anchor_right=0 / anchor_bottom=0 / offset_*
overrides on each ButtonPuzzle/Setting/Credits/Quit Label so they
inherit Summary.tscn's full-rect anchors and the centered alignment
becomes visible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
In Godot 3 the TextureRect stretch_mode enum included a deprecated
"Scale on Expand" at value 0, so Tile=2. Godot 4 dropped that value
and shifted everything down: Tile is now 1. The convert-3to4 tool
does not remap enum values, so the separator at the right edge of
the menu kept Godot 3's Tile=2, which Godot 4 reads as Keep — the
texture rendered once at natural size at the top instead of tiling
down the full menu height.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Discovered while playtesting the migrated build. Each fix has a
specific Godot-3-to-4 cause that the --convert-3to4 tool did not catch.
Fonts:
- Replace 4 .tres font wrappers (MKX_Base, kirsty_base/medium/title)
with FontVariation pointing at the .otf/.ttf source. Godot 3
DynamicFont with size= and font_data= is invalid in Godot 4 (those
properties don't exist on FontFile).
- Apply size 46 via theme_override_font_sizes/font_size on the 5
Labels that used kirsty_title.tres (LabelLoading + 4 in Summary).
- Drop the broken VisualShader text_outline.material from the 4
Labels in Summary — Index p_from_port errors in Godot 4 meant
COLOR was never written, so text rendered invisible.
- Migrate VisualShader nodes inside text_outline.material (compressed
asset; updated by the inspect/migrate scripts).
Translations:
- Move project.godot section from [locale] (Godot 3) to
[internationalization] with locale/translations=... (Godot 4). The
old section was silently ignored so tr() returned the raw msgid.
- Adjust Setting.translate_int_to_locale to return "en"/"fr" to
match what the .po files declare (was "en_GB"/"fr_FR", which Godot
3 fell back from automatically but Godot 4 does not).
Label alignment (Godot 3 names not auto-renamed):
- align -> horizontal_alignment, valign -> vertical_alignment across
9 .tscn files.
Background / Loading / ChooseScene layout:
- Rewrite Background.tscn from a VisualShader-textured Panel to a
plain TextureRect (the visual shader connection ports went out of
bounds in Godot 4, leaving the panel grey on scene reload).
- Set layout_mode=1 + anchors_preset=15 on BackgroundPicture
instances in Main.tscn and Loading.tscn — Godot 4 inheritance no
longer applies the .tscn-root's anchors to an instanced child
unless layout_mode is set to Anchors mode explicitly.
- Replace scroll_horizontal_enabled (Godot 3) with
horizontal_scroll_mode/vertical_scroll_mode (Godot 4) on
ChooseScene's ScrollContainer.
- Add theme_override_styles/panel = StyleBoxEmpty on the
ScrollContainer (Godot 4 ScrollContainer ships a default dark
panel style that Godot 3 did not).
- Hide BackgroundTile in Template.tscn — it points at
UI-level-btn-shadow.png (228x228, 83% opaque black) which used to
render at natural size in Godot 3 but is stretched to fill the
456px rect in Godot 4, leaving a big black square below each
thumbnail. The proper drop-shadow needs a shader or 9-patch.
- TextureRect.expand=true (Godot 3) -> expand_mode=1 (Godot 4) on
ThumbnailLevel and TopPart's content rects.
Lighting:
- background_mode 3 (which used to mean Sky in Godot 3) -> 2 (Sky in
Godot 4; 3 is now Canvas, producing a black background).
- background_sky -> sky, background_energy -> background_energy_multiplier,
fog_color -> fog_light_color, fog_height_min -> fog_height; drop
fog_height_enabled / fog_height_max / fog_height_curve /
dof_blur_far_distance (no longer exist).
- Add fog_mode = 1 so Godot 4 uses fog_depth_* instead of the new
default fog_density-based exponential fog (which rendered as a
thick white cloud).
- ambient_light_energy 1.55 -> 0.4 — the new pipeline interprets
the value much more strongly so 1.55 produced a saturated pink scene.
- Remove the light_data = ExtResource(41) reference to
WarCraft.lmbake — Godot 3 baked lightmap binary format is
incompatible with Godot 4. Re-bake in editor when ready.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Catch-all commit for everything the --convert-3to4 tool missed during a
manual playtest of the game. All errors raised by clicking through Main
-> Puzzles -> level were fixed.
GDScript:
- PackedScene.instance() -> instantiate() (ChooseScene.gd)
- String(x) constructor doesn't exist -> str(x) (MBase, MScene,
MLevel, Animation, Levels)
- 'x as int/String/bool' doesn't parse strings -> explicit
int()/str()/bool(int()) (MScene, MLevel, MSetting)
- BaseButton.pressed (property) -> button_pressed; set_pressed() ->
direct assignment (Settings.gd)
- AnimationPlayer.add_animation() removed -> go through
AnimationLibrary (Levels.gd)
- PhysicsDirectSpaceState3D.intersect_ray(from, to, ...) ->
PhysicsRayQueryParameters3D.create() (Levels.gd)
- @export with type-hint-in-comment ('# (String, ...)') -> explicit
@export_enum (candle.gd)
- Get effective material with get_active_material() instead of
get_surface_override_material(), with null guard (Levels.gd)
- get_node() -> get_node_or_null() so missing items from ahog.json
(e.g. sm_super_dager in Home) don't crash (Levels.gd)
Scenes/resources:
- Remove 14 Tween nodes from WarCraft.tscn — Tween is no longer a
Node in Godot 4. Rewrite Animation.start_dissolve to use
create_tween().tween_method().
- Rename property material/N -> surface_material_override/N in every
.tscn (10 files) — Godot 3 -> 4 rename that --convert-3to4 missed.
Without this, MeshInstance3D.get_active_material(0) returned the
glTF-imported StandardMaterial3D instead of the project's custom
dissolve ShaderMaterial.
Shaders:
- One-shot scripts/migrate_shaders.gd walks every .material under
assets/ and fixes Godot 3 -> 4 shader code in-place. Fixed 17
materials: depth_draw_alpha_prepass -> depth_prepass_alpha,
hint_color -> source_color, NORMALMAP -> NORMAL_MAP.
Result: Main, Settings, ChooseScene, and the WarCraft level all run
without script or shader errors. Remaining noise is non-blocking
(visual_shader graph in text_outline.material, baked lightmap binary
format from Godot 3, and empty animation tracks).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
godot_db_manager was incompatible with Godot 4 (used WindowDialog, Tabs,
PopupPanel which were all removed). Replace with a minimal Database.gd
that parses the same ahog.json format and exposes the same surface API
(get_table_by_name, get_data_at_row_idx, edit_data, save_db, etc.) used
by the M* model classes — no changes needed in MBase/MScene/MLevel/MSetting.
Also port the lod plugin: fix class_name syntax (Godot 4 uses @icon
separately from class_name extends) and Particles -> GPUParticles3D.
Rewrite Global.gd async scene loading: the convert-3to4 tool mapped
load_interactive -> load_threaded_request but those have different APIs
(stage count, poll vs. status enum). Reimplement using the new
load_threaded_get_status / load_threaded_get pair.
Clean project.godot: drop the old _global_script_classes table (Godot 4
uses inline class_name declarations), remove gddb_* autoloads, and
remove the godot_db_manager entry from editor_plugins.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Open project with Godot 3.5.3 to update project.godot to the new
config format (adds physical_scancode field to InputEventKey).
Intermediate step before --convert-3to4 to Godot 4.x.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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