Today we are looking at a free and open-source add-on for the Godot game engine called Script-IDE. In a nutshell this plugin makes the GDScript coding experience in the Godot editor a much more pleasant experience by adding several editing experiences you except to find in a tool like Visual

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There is a new GDExtension for the Godot game engine called Projekt J.E.N.O.V.A (no idea what the acronym is). This extension brings C++ scripting inside the Godot game engine, just as you currently can with GDScript or C#. It is also a very WIP extension with very little documentation so

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Tree3D is a Godot Extension (implemented via GDExtension) for Godot Engine 4.1 or higher that is used to create procedural trees. If you do not wish to build the extension from source, there are precompiled Windows binaries available here. The project is open source, implemented in C++ and released under

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Retopoflow is an extremely popular Blender add-on for doing retopology and it is currently available in Blender Market Humble Bundle (learn more). This was the most requested asset to do a follow-up review on from the Bundle, so that is exactly what we have done in this video. Details of

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Out of the box the lighting system in Godot doesn’t give amazing results. In fact, out the box the lighting system in the Godot game engine ONLY works in the editor, which can be more than a bit confusing for beginners. Thankfully we have an in-depth lighting tutorial that will

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A follow up on our earlier discussion on how to improve the Godot game engine (by making it prettier), today we look at another handy plugin that makes Godot more organized. If you are used to littering your code with TODO or FIXME type comments, this handy add-on helps you

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One of the major missing features of the Godot game engine compared to it’s peers is the complete lack of a Terrain system. Thankfully there are several add-ons and extension to address this shortcoming. Today we are looking at TerraBrush, a heightmap based terrain system for Godot 4.x created using

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The Godot game engine removed it’s built-in Visual Scripting language with the release of Godot 4.0. Thanks however to the extensive (pun intended) extension system GDExtensions, it is possible for a tightly integrated replacement to be created. That is exactly what Orchestrator is, a drop in GDExtension based Visual Scripting

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Earlier this week we discussed the excellent Phantom Camera Add-on for the Godot game engine. One of the nicest features of this add-on was the optional camera preview window, something I commented about being missing from Godot. In a quirk of timing a new add-on was released that adds exactly

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Phantom Camera is an awesome add-on for the Godot 4.x game engine that attempts to bring Unity’s Cinemachine style camera capabilities to the 2D and 3D cameras in Godot. The newest release of the camera does however require the newest release of Godot, with Godot 4.2x+ being required from version

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