In the move from Godot 3.x to Godot 4.x one of the few regressions was support for 2D tiled maps. Since the 4.0 release however, several features are being reintroduced to bring Godot up to parity with the older versions. In the upcoming release of Godot 4.3 (currently in Beta1) […]

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When just starting out in game development, one of the hardest and most immediate decisions you will have to make is “What Game Engine Should I Start With?”. Of course, as the saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know, making it almost impossible to make such a decision […]

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There is no question that the Godot game engine has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. You can actually trace the evolution of the Godot game engine from prelease to today here. One area Godot has often trailed the competition though is in aesthetics. In […]

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This is a casual, slightly unstructured tutorial covering the task of lighting in the Godot 4.x (Godot 4.2 specifically in this example) game engine. We cover topics including lighting and shadows, world environment, emissive textures, global illumination and more. The tutorial is video only and uses assets from the GameMasters […]

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One of the most exciting new features in the recent Godot 4.2 game engine release was the addition of Blender style transformation hotkeys. You need to configure this feature yourself, but the video below shows you step by step how to do so. At first glance the Blender hotkeys may […]

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This is a quick tutorial to get you up and running with the C# programming language in the Godot Game Engine using Visual Studio Code and the newly released C# Dev Kit. STEPS Install Visual Studio Code (available here) Install Godot Engine – .NET version (available here) Create a project […]

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Today we are going to look at how easy it is to move assets from the Unity game engine to Godot in just a few seconds. We recently did a video showcasing how easy it is to move from Unreal Engine to the Unity engine using the excellent Unreal Engine […]

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The Apple M1 (and later M2) chips were a big step forward in performance on MacOS. Here on GameFromScratch we have covered game development on an M1 powered Mac (Unity, Unreal, Blender and Godot) as well as covering some of the downsides of Mac Game Development as well. We also […]

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Perhaps you are coveting recent Unreal Engine Humble Bundles or have been hoarding the free monthly assets, today we will show you how to export from Unreal Engine 5.1 to the Unity or Godot game engines, or even to Blender. There are multiple ways to export from Unreal Engine to […]

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Love it or hate it, the FBX interchange format is an important one in the world of game developer, so today we look at the process of using FBX in the Godot 4 game engine. In Godot 3, FBX support is built-in but lacklustre. In Godot 4 we need to […]

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