Export is 90 mb while I have nothing

TheMadKas

I wanted to see how is the export size while you have just a single scene, and nothing in files and it was 90 mb how?

xyz

TheMadKas I wanted to see how is the export size while you have just a single scene, and nothing in files and it was 90 mb how?

It's called overhead. Adding another scene won't add another 90mb. It will probably be something negligible. Couple hundred mb for a game in this day and age is small.

Toxe

That is something the devs are working on. But you can easily compile your own version of the engine to trim down the size and leave out parts that you don't need, especially if you are making a 2D game or tool.

https://popcar.bearblog.dev/how-to-minify-godots-build-size/

kuligs2

Toxe thanks, didnt know this, i might revive my gdmaster app and update it to the latests godot version with stuff disabled 🙂, because its just a console server, and by default it compiles to 130mb binaries, which is outrageous

Toxe

kuligs2 Yeah, the size is one big drawback of Godot at the moment and I hope we will be able to reduce it further in the future.

kuligs2

xyz It is small but for a server application that just pushes around bits over TCP IP, thats too much 🙂 Sure, call me retarded for using godot to write a server application and complain that it weight too much, but i wanted to do that in the spirit of creating something using only godot.

Toxe

xyz Couple hundred mb for a game in this day and age is small.

Highly depends on the platform and game. Also Godot is supposed to be usable for other things than games.

But at least if you aren't doing anything with 3D it's pretty easy to cut down the size.

xyz

kuligs2 call me retarded for using godot to write a server application

Well, you said it yourself 😹

xyz

Toxe Also Godot is supposed to be usable for other things than games.

Yeah but most of Godot's (and any other game engine's) overhead likely falls on graphics support. Using it for non visual applications is not too reasonable, especially if you care about executable size.

Toxe

xyz Using it for non visual applications is not too reasonable

I have to disagree here. Godot's UI system is actually pretty darn good and IMHO better than a lot of other UI frameworks. And it automagically runs pretty much everywhere and you get access to features that those other UI frameworks don't offer out of the box. Therefore using Godot to make a tool is really not that far fetched.

But as I said, it would be nice if the final executable could be a little smaller.

xyz non visual applications

Unless of course you where talking specifically about pure terminal programs or servers, in that case I would agree. Unless something Godot specific is needed then, yeah, there are better languages to get the job done.

xyz

Toxe Godot to make a tool is really not that far fetched

It's not far fetched at all if one doesn't make a fuss about executable size, which is the main "problem" people are complaining about in this thread.

"Regular" ui frameworks are not hardware accelerated, excluding stuff like imgui. There's a substantial overhead price for a hardware accelerated gui system, more so if it's a part of a strictly object oriented graphical engine where very broad rendering functionality needs to be implemented in base classes. In case of a full blown game engine that's the whole gpu rendering api/wrapper. You can't simply strip the code of such a system down to mere button rendering.