godot-combat-system — Claude Code skill: Godot combat

What godot-combat-system does

The skill lays out how to build a combat system in Godot: hitbox/hurtbox architecture, damage handling through a DamageData resource, a health component, combat states, combos, ability cooldowns and floating damage numbers. It ships scripts: damage_data.gd, health_component.gd, hitbox_hurtbox.gd, hitbox_component.gd, combat_system_patterns.gd, plus combo_system.gd, combat_state.gd, damage_popup.gd, combat_logger.gd, networked_damage_manager.gd and hitbox_visualizer.gd.

Most of the file is a list of things not to do. Damage never gets subtracted from a target's health directly, because that skips armor, resistances and invincibility frames. Hitboxes stay disabled until an animation track or timed code turns them on, otherwise you get ghost hits. Damage types are enum and @export_flags bitfields, not strings. Hit filtering goes through collision layers and masks, not groups. Hitstun is not faked with OS.delay_msec(), since that blocks the OS thread. RigidBody impulses belong in _physics_process, not _process.

Everything assumes GDScript. Target checks use has_method(&"take_damage") and is, because the language has no exceptions. Shared stat resources need duplicate() per instance, or every enemy ends up sharing one health pool. Abilities are out of scope here: the skill routes them to godot-ability-system, composition to godot-composition, and FSMs to godot-state-machine-advanced.