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Nerdzmasterz

Absolutely. Remember, I dabbled in VR before. 🙂
It's probably the best platform to date.

The other dimension isn't what makes it hard, it's filling up the world that takes forever.

cybereality

3D is harder, not only because of the math, but because assets take longer and require more skill to make. It's fairly easy to make a full 2D game almost by yourself (or with like 3 or 4 people) but 3D can take a whole team if you want high quality. So it's more about time consumption.

Nerdzmasterz

I suppose I can offer insight on this. Personally, I prefer working with pre-made, modular, low-poly 3D models as much as possible. They're cheaper and very effective for beginners in 3D.

For those who just want to build in 3D for your first 3D game, start very small and then, if you want to spend more time on it after that, work your way up. Single play games would be the easiest, like one that tells a story in a small few levels- like Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. You will quickly realize how much more you have to add in to make it look good.

Pixophir

Do you guys know about a good Blender >3.0 Book ?

I love books. Browsing amazon I mostly find outdated books, and the one or 2 labelled 3.0 have reviews like "save your money and use the online documentation".

Nerdzmasterz

Pixophir Not that I'm aware of, but Blender changes so often, it's difficult for me to even try to keep up. I would rather look for something more stable. IDK, is Rhino 3D any good?

Nerdzmasterz

The math is... not that bad, really. Instead of moving up down, left, and right, you will often move forwards and backwards, and rotate left and right. Up and down is mostly for jumping or camera movement- hence the dreaded gimbal lock.

cybereality

This is a good book, I read a previous edition. It's for Blender 2.8, but the basics have not changed.

This one is also good, but I haven't finished reading it yet.

Pixophir

Thanks all. I probably try with the documentation first.

Need a second monitor ...
... and a larger desk.

fire7side

Pixophir Check out Grant Abbits website. He's got courses that I think are cheap plus a lot of free ones and he's really good. You don't have to worry about 3.0 because the basics have been the same since about 2.8 or so. You don't need a second monitor. A pen tablet might be nice for some painting tasks. A desktop computer is probably a little better, but even if it's a 13 inch, I would get started right now. Start with his beginner courses.

https://www.youtube.com/c/GrantAbbitt

Nerdzmasterz

I've been studying game development for years, and not once have I really needed a second monitor. Heck, I can run Godot on a laptop if my graphics don't have to be superior. I would like a second monitor for certain things, but otherwise it's not a bad setup if you need to export to the desktop and import from the desktop straight to your Godot project.

If you're working with 3D, and you ever do need superior graphics, top-notch characters, and excellent rigging, you could try to save up for grabbing Daz Studio as well. It's free, but it can get expensive when you use it for real projects. However, if you can afford it, the results are stellar- and they have buildings/props/locations you can use as well.

These are characters from the 3D game called Psychotic, which I've been itching to get done some day. In the last character in the list, a closer shot of my icon, I did some editing in Unity- added the brain and light bulb-hat, and the lights, and whatever, but it still gets my point across. You can tell from this that he is actually a light source with glowing, alien skin.
The main character:

Extra:

Some villains

Nerdzmasterz

Speaking of, I am on the lookout for 3D horror assets to match the characters. I can easily find 2D assets, but 3D is another matter. Anyone know a good place with such models? I won't spoil the game, though.

cybereality

Nerdzmasterz Anyone know a good place with such models? I won't spoil the game, though.

I get all my art from here:
https://www.cgtrader.com/

fire7side

Nerdzmasterz If you haven't already, check out Blend Swap for free models. It's kind of hit and miss, but you might find something useful, however you have to check the license.
https://www.blendswap.com/

duane

Speaking of tutorials, I've got a better idea. Instead of written or video tutorials, we just need someone to embed the godot IDE into a game. The game sets you tasks to accomplish, then you use the embedded IDE to finish them. If you get too frustrated, the game pulls up a copy of the ideal project to compare with, but doesn't let you edit it -- you have to make the changes in your project.

That ought to be easy to do. 🙂

cybereality

duane Instead of written or video tutorials, we just need someone to embed the godot IDE into a game.

They did this.

https://gdquest.mavenseed.com/courses/learn-to-code-from-zero-with-godot

Nerdzmasterz

cybereality Apparently that game is poorly advertised, I've never seen it before but would not have been opposed to trying it back when.

I wouldn't mind giving a go at a programming game, as I like stuff like that. Then I could post it free somewhere. I have to work on a few projects that pay first, though.

cybereality

It's not a game. It's an interactive tutorial app. They had a Kickstarter last year I think, and it's in beta, I don't believe they finished it yet. So maybe that is why it wasn't advertised much.

Nerdzmasterz

I'm thinking they should have a hacker game on it. Program a robot to retrieve objects, hack into security systems, and stopping a psycho from destroying the world as we know it.

Here's my thing- so many times, I have heard about "how hard it is to code".

Um...

What's so hard about print(6 + 8), or get_node("Button").show()? 🤔

Wolfe

Nerdzmasterz I also never tried making shaders, it sounds difficult.

Nerdzmasterz so many times, I have heard about "how hard it is to code".

Um...

What's so hard about print(6 + 8), or get_node("Button").show()?

Nerdzmasterz Back in Unity, I guess I was pampered. I could buy already-made shaders and use post-processing with a few clicks.

If I can code a shader, surely you can do it too. 😛 My current avatar is a metaphor for my programming journey.

GDShader has one foot in Godot philosophy and the other in conventional syntax, making it friendly to write but also more relatable to common code, resources, and examples than GDScript. I think the beginner-friendliness of learning to create shaders in Godot has been seriously understated -- there's this false sense that it isn't as simple as (or simpler than) other tutorialized features or techniques in Godot.

Online resources about shaders exist, but for whatever reason it hasn't sunk in that Godot makes them about as easy as anything else it does.

fire7side

Boy the tab key is kind of strange when entering code. You press it and the cursor disappears and the code doesn't appear to indent, but then when you post it, it's indented. Just have to get used to it I guess.

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