Godot, as well. Started this Sunday

Nice!

I've been learning Unreal, and wow is it so different in good and "bad" (just challenging) ways. Some things that blew my mind: 1. Player movement (in most cases): Do NOT code yourself! Just check mark or uncheckmark / edit already existing controller. 2. The idea of Pawns: very similar to when I tried multiplayer in Unity, pawns are just a controllable object by player or ai. 3. Must use blueprints (this I don't enjoy atm but understand I will have to accept). I prefer how much cleaner written code is but w/e. 4. Material Editor is almost completely identical to Shader Graph in Unity! I was excited about this one. 5. (All/Most?) Templates have full Day/Night cycle that can be controllable by realistic time / date. (edit) 6. Game modes and game states are some incredible ways to control the "rules" of your game. SUPER important and still learning this one. (edit) 7. Unlike Unity, most logic does not run in "Start" or "Update" methods (or Unreal's equivalent). Sounds like we use something equivalent to triggers more often? (Haven't explored much in this yet) Overall, Unreal is definitely more opinionated, which makes it difficult to learn. However, it sorta forces good coding conventions at the cost of slightly more difficult configuration. Any custom solutions that fight the engine and you would need to really understand the deep nitty gritty of the "magic" that Unreal does for you to change it. It's been fun but challenging, and still have a lot to learn.

Unigine, it is between unity and QUE. Ano is very well documented, in C# and C++

My day job is switching to Godot and I'm switching to unreal. So far I'm enjoying myself. It's giving a good separation of work and home projects

Godot's got the upper greg here

This is the most accurate statement yet

@@TheShelfman Thankyou. One thing I really miss is having time to think while I'm working. I'm considering making an editor plugin that adds a progress bar that steals focus for a random length of time every few minutes.

@@segue2ant395 LOLLL I think that the awareness of that plugin would only anger you more

​@@segue2ant395surprisingly relatable

I managed to bring a test level from ue5 to blender and then into godot. Very silly and the textures wouldn't load from blend files that way but it does mean I can put "toy" versions of my Pavlov maps into a godot game as decorations. I just need to export to another format first.

I hope that it understand sarcasm by the time it decides whether I'm worth keeping alive or not

CHATGPT is like my kid....ask once...get answer...need to ask " are you sure ? " 😅

@@guylainelaroche6391 hahahaha

Let's hope Roko's Basilisk AI doesn't show up in this lifetime 😱

That's fair! The switch felt incredibly daunting after over 8 years with Unity, but it's surprisingly incredible

Thanks! Loving the switch for sure

Yeah I should. The code side of signals is a little daunting (also mostly chatgpt's fault I think), but I'm looking forward to using them

@@TheShelfman Unfortunately, in my experience, ChatGPT is a complete mess with GDScript. The cutoff for 3 was right before a lot of fundamental changes were made. But yeah, if you've ever used Qt or Java, you already know signals, you just don't know you know them yet.

@@TheShelfman TL;DR: signal foo(args...) - declares a signal foo.emit(arg_values...) - emits the signal some_object.foo.connect(callback) - connects to a signal.

These are all brilliant tips, thank you!

You can drag multiple nodes onto the script too. Simply select the nodes you want with, then drag them onto the scriot, hold CTRL, then let go. Godot automatically adds the Onready references to the nodes and you can change the variable name from there. However, since you've figured out how to get a reference using the insoectoe via Export variables, I recommend doing it that way, especially since you'll find it similar to how Unity gets component references.

Godot is my new best friend

@@TheShelfman Friendship over with Unity

Thanks so much! Glad you're enjoying the videos. Just sad it had to be because of this chaos haha

Thanks! And I'm glad it's helpful! Was really helpful to me too😁

What's neat is there are web frameworks that use a similar philosophy. In web dev it is slightly different vocabulary but same concept "Data down, Actions up." So it was really cool hearing this used somewhere else!

Appreciate it man!

Appreciate it, Vav! Definitely planning on making more videos on this adventure😁

Thanks! Yeah I'm still constantly learning haha Good luck if you do decide to make the switch!

Just heard about resources. Really gotta dig into that as well cause that sounds like just the thing I need

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Thanks so much! And good luck!

Thanks for watching Jonas!

Thanks!

It's awesome! And happy to hear you like it, too. I believe I remember a video in which you used it!

I appreciate that, thank you😁

Is this what it means to be in denial?😭 Thanks man!

Hey! Thanks for watching! I'm afraid I'm not a tutorial channel, but there are loads out there that can help. I will however be making more videos on godot in the future, which might be of help to some degree. Good luck on your gamedev adventure!

Thanks! And I'm sure godot will stay godot! They stated somewhere that they aren't a unity competitor, just another engine. And so far it's awesome

I feel you haha. When I first started making games, the first engine I tried was also JME3, but 14 year old me didn't understand what he was looking at. Then I tried gamemaker, and unity. Good times!

Thanks man! I think it depends on how far your personal project is. If your college only allows Unity, stick with Unity for that of course haha, but if your personal project is only in its prototype phase, it can't hurt to switch. Otherwise, I'm in the same boat with Le Chateau: I'll be finishing that in Unity as well while learning Godot on the side

@@TheShelfman Ok thanks man! Thats my twitter tweet now XD

I haven't! But that definitely sounds appealing. Will be checking it out, thanks😁

Oh yeah definitely. Took every ounce of self control to not use PascalCasing for functions. Thankfully because I'm quite used to python leaving out semicolons and curly brackets wasn't too difficult

@@TheShelfman haha sounds like a lot of fun

​@@TheShelfmanwhy not use c# though

That's fair. Definitely separates them. Currently sticking with prefabs for the time being though, but with other projects, sure!

That's fair. Loads of people have decided to go with C# and it has definitely crossed my mind, but because it was made with GDscript in mind, I figured I'd at least give it a try. Thanks for watching Rob!

Thanks😁

If you make 2D games, I think godot might be the better option, but I don't know much about unreals 2D capabilities. As for post processing, I do believe godot can do that yeah!

@@TheShelfman thanks alot I'll probably go with godot and unreals 2d engine is pretty good but not the easiest to use

Thank you!

I'm sorry okay😭

Just make sure it doesnt happen again...wait, Unity already took care of that XD

That''s unfortunately not the kind of video I'd normally make. Besides, I'm not quite good enough yet at Godot to be able to do that. However, I'm sure there are plenty of videos out there already that tell you exactly what you want to know😁

Haha perfect timing! Curious to hear what you decide😁

Groups I still gotta read about somewhere! Thanks for the tip😁

@@TheShelfman basically you can put a node (or nodes) in a group. This way you can just use the "get_tree.call_group()" command to send commands to all nodes in that group like execute a certain function. You can also send parameters with it like run get_damage and also send the 5 damage with it. Also when a node enters an area you can check wether that node belongs to a group before executing the underlying code. Like "if body.is_in_group("Player"):" then do certain actions. Code example might not be 100% correct spelling due to being on phone atm.

I am definitely not the right person to ask haha

That's fair. Everyone has their own use cases. Gotta decide what works best for your specific use case

Oh I didn't know that. Will have to look into that sometime!

You can't just load an exported game. If you export a Godot game it's scripts are compiled to bytecode and editor won't show that properly (unless you specifically select in the export settings that you don't want to compile but nobody does that because it results in slower runtime). You can also add 256-bit AES key encryption to .pck files. You have to recompile export templates for that and it's not bullet proof but it will make sure that script kiddies won't easily rip your assets.

@@novh4ck You say that, but amusingly you can make a script for that :D The bytecode is a 1:1 mapping apparently, unlike other compiled stuff, so you can unbytecode it easily with a script, as well as decrypt since by design the key has to be available for you

@@MaakaSakuranbo Still you cannot load a game you bought "as if you're the creator". You made it sound like it's trivial and that's not true.

@@novh4ck Far more trivial than in Unity or Unreal

Oh that I hadn't even considered 🤔

@@TheShelfman I bet there must be a best practice or configuration to avoid it, as I'm sure many people trip into it. I'm not sure if it's a problem only when importing .blend files, but it's quite annoying :D I definitely want to avoid using .GetNode("node name") approach

Thanks! Only thing that comes to mind right away is how in Unity you can drag a bunch of the same type of assets to an array and it'll automatically adjust the array size and fill them all in. In godot it seems to want me to add each node/item manually

@@TheShelfman as far as I can see, that works out of the box. I would send gif If I could, but I noticed that comments with link don't work very well on yt. I exported array as: @export var test_array: Array[Texture], then duplicated icon 3 times, selected all copies and dragged it to exported field, and it added them all, and resized it as you described. Is that what you were talking about, or something else?

I'm not sure actually. Never looked it up. But if it's something you need, Google can always help

Hahaha that's great. Thanks for watching 😄

If you hate programming, I don't think Unity is a good option either. I'd recommend GameMaker for 2D games, and then probably Unreal for 3D games!

They're the best

That's awesome!

I'll have to look into that, thanks!

That's unfortunate. I haven't tried 3D yet, but I'm sure I'll get there at some point. I've heard people praise Flax engine for 3D because it's pretty similar to Unity. Maybe something for you to try out?

@@TheShelfman I'll try it now. Thanks

Thanks for the tips!

@@TheShelfman hey no problem. Glad I can help a bit.

Oh man I love myself some scriptable objects. If "Resources" are the godot alternative, then they'll be my next best friend

@@TheShelfman and also Autoloads...

@@TheShelfman But unlike Unity's ScriptableObjects, you can actually change values inside Resources and also use it as a way to save values.

Same here!

Hmm I wonder what could cause that. It's super quick for me. It has its quirks, sure, but overall it's nice to be able to change a line of code without having to wait a week for it to compile

@@TheShelfman I've tried the LTS version 3.5 and it is way faster, smoother and have lower delay (overall better than 4.1). Maybe the latest is not yet optimized that much? I guess I can live with a little UI delay, the latest version's perks are great imo. Great video btw!

I hate that I kinda agree😂 Guess I gotta speed up my words

most solid gamedev advice i've ever received

@@TheShelfman here for you 🫡

I didn't know that! Great stuff

@TheShelfman I didn't know about it until I was tinkering with GDExtension and looking under the hood--and GDExtension is _amazing_, by the way! It's a lot more coding, but you can do practically anything with this engine.

Hahaha yeah it was quite the experience

It's genuinely my biggest struggle so far lmao

That's... certainly a sentence 😂 Thanks!

You also got loads of short tutorials that would be perfect for me, but I'm sure plenty of people love your long ones as well!

That final point is DEFINITELY something I'm missing. I wanna be able to see what's going on in the scene through the editor as well😭

@@TheShelfman Bro I feel you😔

Launch your game in debug mode in godot 4 to get the same effect as unitys thing

I'm not sure I follow. Pressing the "run project" button starts the game, and it says it's in DEBUG mode, but when I switch to the level scene visual, it doesn't show the character moving around or anything? Is it possible?

@@TheShelfman Yeah same. And also only scene -> game changes apply not the other way around

For now mostly something as simple as dragging a bunch of nodes (of the same type) to an array in the inspector, and it accepting them all at once, rather than having to drag them in one by one Andddd I really liked being able to watch in the scene view in the editor what was going on in the game, but I can't seem to find if that's a thing that works in godot as well

@@TheShelfman oh, yes, I miss this ast aspect too in godot :/

Sickkk how's that going?

Yeah I'm not paying money for chatgpt to give me more recent answers haha

Nice! How are you liking it?

Nope, the free one. Hence why it didn't know godot 4

Hi!

It'll take a bit, but the amount will definitely grow rapidly

I appreciate you wanting to help, but I've been doing this long enough to know that this is my style. Take a look at my other videos (not this one or the unity one), and you'll find exactly what my style is. Besides, I'd like to point out that the views show that people are liking the videos! These 2 videos were quick and easy to make, but don't define my entire video making style. Years of creating, and forming an on-camera personality, that defines my style.

What's yours🤔

​@@TheShelfman Your question was, "Is Godot My New Favorite Engine?". And I said, "It is My New Favorite Engine."

Accurate. Like it's trying to tell you what a word used to mean, but not anymore🙃

@@TheShelfman I love when it gaslights me

Ehhh disagree here. Unity is really powerful for 2D. Sure it was made with 3D in mind, but over the years it has taken 2D more and more seriously. All my published 2D games have been made in Unity

Yes! Thanks!