Comments by "IgorTheLight" (@igorthelight) on "Godot in 100 Seconds" video.

  1. True! But I would still recommend to make a 2D game first - it's much easier ;-)
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  2.  @AgraxGaming  True! Developers are 100% agree with you ;-) My opinion - Visual Script could help to convert people from UE Blueprints to Godot, but if it's not popular - it's taking development time that could be spent on other, more useful things. So deleting it was a good decision. Sad but rational.
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  3. Visual Script will not make a transition to 4.0... They did a poll and only a few percent of developers really used it
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  4. You may try - it's very easy to start! * Download Godot * Create a folder for it and for your projects - that may be the same folder * Start it and you are ready to go ;-) You may start with that: https://youtu.be/wETY5_9kFtA?list=PL9FzW-m48fn2jlBu_0DRh7PvAt-GULEmd
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  5.  @AgraxGaming  True - Blueprints is very intuitive! Godot's "Visual Script" tried the same idea but their latest poll shows that VS is not very popular and they deleted it in Godot 4. But it's still available in 3.x for those who want it ;-)
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  6. Is it "best" depends on what is your goal is ;-) It's great for: * Fast starting with game development * If you don't need an Asset Store * If you are ok to wait for Godot 4.0 if you want to creeate a MODERN 3d game. It's already good for 2D
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  7.  @Shadow-cs7oy  True!
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  8.  @XoLucyna  ;-)
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  9.  @Im_Ninooo  Yeah, Godot 4.0 is still rough - try it's final release (early 2023, probably). They like Blender (both are Open Source projects) so they will improve importing from Blender ;-)
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  10.  @bobbirdsong6825  Well... Games could generate random encounters (a random person asks you do do some random thing). If we are in a simulation - how would you know that? If you never was in a "real" world - how would you know that our world is slightly illogical? If in a game at night some random vampires would spawn - that's very strange by our standards, but that's pretty normal in that game's world.
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  11. Welcome to community! 🙂
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  12.  @Dxpress_  Very informative! "The other difference is that you can attach multiple components to a GameObject in Unity, but a Godot Node is one and only one script, which I guess makes sense, otherwise that'd be getting into multiple inheritance." - true! But you can attach a script to every Node (so you could attach one to KinematicBody2D and one to it's Sprite, because both inherit from Node and any Node could have a script attached to it). So both engine.s logic is quite flexible.
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  13. In Godot 4.0 it was reworked and it can utilize types fully ;-) Use "var a := 5" instead of just "var a = 5"
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  14.  @Im_Ninooo  Can agree. Watch some tutorials and then it will "click". When it does - it will became very comfortable ;-)
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  15.  @Im_Ninooo  True! Importing 3D meshes could be painful in Godot - it's mostly used for 2D games for now ;-) But with every version, importer became better and better! And developers created a new importer for Godot 4.0. Can''t say is it working good because I'm most interested in 2D side of things xD Also... why don't you animate in Blender itself? I heard it has a pretty good animation system!
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  16. True!
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  17. GameMaker Studio is also great! It's very comfortable to START making games but after a while you would understand that it's pretty limited... You could do anything with it but most things are just not there... (using 2+ sprites on one object, writing and testing shaders at the same time, using particle system, using anything GUI related...). So I switched to Godot! Yes - I am converted now! Join us! ;-)
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  18. True!
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  19. The "Mini-Unity" ;-)
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  20. It's nice but it needs a good Editor ;-) I know that it's a framework and not an engine but still...
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  21. Connect to a Matrix ;-) "Tank, I need to learn 100 most useful skills!"
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  22. Unity is great because it has the biggest Asset Store of any game engine. If you want to use your own assets of you are fine with just googling - Godot is MUCH more pleasant to work with ;-) I used GameMakerStudio 2, Unity 2017-2019, Unreal Engine 4 (not 5 tho...). ANd I still prefer Godot.
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  23.  @zendraw3468  Well... Godot is rough. I wouldn't recommend it for 3D for sure. In 2D world - it depends. 2D game market is dominated by small indie studios - I think it's perfectly capable of making any indie-level type of game! What is the hardest to make 2D indie game in your opinion? HADES? Ori and the Blind Forest? Godot have much less features but to make a 2D game you don't really need much. I think Unity is just "battle-tested" and have a big Store, so developers know for sure that they could finish their game. In Godot... not so much... And consoles - Unity supports them out of the box while Godot doesn't and never will - it's Open Source while console SDK's are not. That's a BIG con for many developers! They don't want to outsource their game so they could have a console port for it. So, in my opinion, Godot is small and comfortable engine for hobbyists. It has some rough edges and will scare off companies for sure. It just have to win over small indie game developers. It will never be as popular as Unity and it's fine for me, personally ;-)
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  24.  @zendraw3468  I hope that I have a mature point of view on this ;-) But I still not sure why I think that Godot is very comfortable to work with. Most likely it's his Theme + GDScript + small size + availability of source code (I looked how move_and_slide() function works, for example).
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  25.  @alimertc  Ha-ha! I use Python ;-) That's just a weird feature of Godot that most people don't know at all! Let's say you use Godot frequently and want to experiment - use it as your scripting language xD
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  26. Nice pun ;-)
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  27. You may use Go in Godot, I think ;-)
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  28. It's already in 3.4+ using portals! It will be proper implemented in 4.0 - that's true!
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  29. It's an interesting story ;-)
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  30. Godot is a "mini-Unity" ;-)
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  31. Try it! It's like, download, create a folder for it and start ;-)
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  32. As a Godot hobbyist I don't care how people pronounce it. Godoh or Godot. The correct way is Godoh but it's fine if you don't want to call it that way ;-)
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  33. Depends on your background but maybe that was a long time ago or a tutorial was not so great ;-) Godot is pretty simple to understand: Nodes are just building blocks. If you build something good from them - save it as a Scene (it's a Prefab in Unity's terns). You may attach a script to any Node. Any Node could emit signals (those are Events).
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  34.  @helderlimaletsgo  Just make small games and you will learn fast! Just watch some tutorials, do as they say and CHANGE something ;-) And DON"T try to make one big game! I'm 95% sure that it will never be finished and will be abandoned. You could make big games ONLY after you have like 10 small ones (with all the features that you want in your "serious" project). Example: if you wanna make a Diablo clone, create a game where you fight monsters in just one room (1 class, 1 room, 3 types of monsters). Then make another game where there are many rooms, more monster types (like 10) and they could drop loot. Then a game with few classes... Than a game with a few types of rooms but they are connected randomly... Your games must be playable as fast as possible! And you will get there!
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  35. Start with a 2D game as your first ;-) It's easier and you will learn a lot of usefull things before you would touch 3D meshes, materials, shaders, bone animation and such
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  36. Not sure about PS5 - external companies do the porting ;-)
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  37. Beta is is here and it's pretty stable for small projects ;-) Beta 4 will be in a week
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  38. Add that it's made with LÖVE ;-)
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  39. It's based on the name of the French play "Waiting for Godot".
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  40. Yep!
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  41. More advanced Nodes do inherit all the properties and methods from less advanced Nodes. So Node2D inherits from CanvasItem which inherits from Node, but they are not that bulky as MonoBehaivour! In my example, Node gives ability to be integrated in engine's MainLoop, CanvasItem gives the ability to be drawn while Node2D gives Transform and Z-index - no unnecessary things ;-)
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  42. Yes ;-) If you want good modern graphics - use Godot 4 Beta branch!
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  43.  @gp6763  Agree. The thing is: in Unity or UE there is a financial motivation to add something to their Stores while in Godot there is none. So when I use Godot (and I use it much often that any other engine), I just don't count on that I will find something in a Store. And that's fine for me personally but most people would prefer to have a big Store where you could find/buy anything you want ;-) Godot 3 have everything for 2D and Godot 4 have almost everything for 3D (no Ray Tracing and no DLSS tho).
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  44. That's strange to be honest - Godot uses OpenGL ES 3.0 - maybe start it in OpenGL ES 2.0 mode if you have a VERY old PC ;-)
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  45. It's based on the name of the French play "Waiting for Godot". Because community is always waiting for a new cool feature. It's a self-joke ;-)
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  46. It's getting bigger over time but even 4.0 is around 100 Mb and it has A TON of improvements!
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  47. Today is a good day! ;-) No installation needed! GDScript is very easy and Python-like
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  48.  @thatsalot3577  Nice! ;-)
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  49. It is! It has many improvements over those few years like HTML5 and Android version of the engine! Yes - you may use it on ANY device now! Even on your refrigerator if it has a browser! ;-) Also - there is Godot 4.0 Beta 3! It has Vulkan support and GDScript 2.0 (true static types and it's faster!)
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  50. True! It's like "young Unity" - when it was faster and not that corporate monster ;-)
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