Best tutorial for a newcomer?

Antagonist

About myself: I have very little experience with downloading the Unity engine and trying some tutorials. Although I know what a script and a compiler do in theory, I don't know how to write anything other than "hello world" which I probably forgot years ago. I tried LUA and failed, C# and failed. I believe that part of the failure was lack of decent tutorials or a mentor to help me to learn by assigning me small projects, even remotely. Still, I seek to persevere and learn game development somehow.

I'd like to learn as a newcomer, with a fresh start and no understanding of any language. How do you do that with Godot? What do I need to install? All I have is the win64 exe and enthusiasm. Please point me in the right direction.

I know it's best to start small, but I'd love to learn how to create a 3D dungeon crawler.

Kiori

Top right of the forum there is a blue link, big, named "Documentation", it will send you to the main docs where they teach a bunch of stuff in a pretty nice pace. Beyond that, the tutorials section here has a bunch of stuff to look for. ;)

Ross

Check this thread for a bunch of tutorial links: https://godotdevelopers.org/forum/discussion/15457/where-to-find-more-tutorials

None are amazing, but I like Andreas's tutorials. He's reasonably quick (after the first video), clear, and not annoying.

Antagonist

I'll try Andreas first.

Antagonist

I guess I'll check out the documentation for 3D because I'm not really interested in working on 2D projects.

Kiori

@Antagonist said: I guess I'll check out the documentation for 3D because I'm not really interested in working on 2D projects.

For now most of the tuts are for 2d, that's related to the fact that a new 3d renderer is coming soon and it will change everything. But you will find that the Docs do a pretty good job as far as documentation goes, and it's a starting point. You can ask questions you have on the 3D section, or join our chat on discord(link in the top left beside the Home button).

Good luck.

NeoD

You may try Python tutorials, the Godot language have lot of similarities with Python and it's easier to learn than C#.

The Godot scene system is the same for both 3D and 2D so it's not a waste of time to follow some 2D tutorial to learn the scene system. For the 3D specific stuff you can look for any game development tutorial. I guess Godot didn't reinvent the 3D basics. 3D needs lot of knowledges who aren't specific to Godot.

Ross

There is a 3D tutorial series by Gamefromscratch:

Kiori

Well spotted Ross, GFS has a bunch of 3d tutorials, I've used them myself once.

Antagonist

@Ross said: There is a 3D tutorial series by Gamefromscratch:

This looks nice. Thanks for the video.

Ross

I searched "godot 3D" on youtube. :lol: and Gamefromscratch is always pretty good.