They should be dominating the market with how much Unity keeps shooting itself in the foot but they aren’t. Why is that?

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They should be dominating the market with how much Unity keeps shooting itself in the foot but they aren’t. Why is that?

it's missing like half of the 3D features required.

you can't compare godot to unity. unity has countless assets and github repos that provide an endless amount of features for people to work on their game, whether it's shaders, renderers, AI logic, or netcoding. godot is building its own library but it will take time before it rivals unity in sheer broadness.

Just keep waiting, if it's not in 4.5 it'll be in 4.6 and if it's not in 4.6 it'll be in 5.0, and...

it'll get there. there are some impressive tech demos but a lot of animation stuff is completely missing. the performance isn't particularly good either.

Mandatory post
youtube.com/watch?v=p2Qr9jsmp74

fpbp

It's 3d capabilities are horrible, and if just want 2d you've got plenty of better, more fleshed out options.

is this the woke tranny game engine

you're going to have to be more specific

Unity has 17 years worth of head start and thus a larger market share plus community.

Godot is slowly gaining speed and popularity. It's also good to remember that up until few short years ago, Godot was still considered as a mere 2D game engine, a la Game Maker.
Shitposters like are a prime example of this outdated prejudice. Anything Unity can do is also doable in Godot. It also has benefits like fully FOSS structure, superior UIX and stability.

Folks have been saying that Godot has a chance to become the next "Blender" of game engines. As an oldfag myself, I can assure you that next to no one used Blender a mere decade ago, but now it's the global standard.

it takes a long time for people to switch because what they already know is still good enough.
the next wave of indie devs are probably still mostly learning unity but the shift will still gradually come over time.
unity isn't going anywhere since literally all the chinese gacha games are made in it for some reason.

what features are those?

just needs more bunnis

proper IK, animation blending, proper post process, functioning TAA, better perforamnce..

proper IK

can't you set that up in Blender

animation blending

that's in, you can blend animations while they are playing and also fade between them during transitions.

proper post process, functioning TAA

could be, I haven't dived into that stuff

better perforamnce...

yeah that tech demo some niggas released some days ago runs like dogshit, but for retro looking games I think Godot is more than fine.

It lacks good tutorials and the team behind it fucking suck ass at marketing it. If they were smart and thinking in the long run they should change both the name and the logo asap.

This tranny engine is the reason why Colors Ultimate was such a piece of fucking shit

>proper IK

can't you set that up in Blender

you are an actual retard.

functioning TAA

Not having TAA is a good thing, make your goddamn graphics actually look good nigger.

animation blending

as in motion matching.
TAA is good actually for modern PBR games. I'm not going to bother arguing about this. there's no better solution.

Unity has Jenshin impact.
It's ogre...

im 7m in and no youtuber has started reading his video essay yet is this just 2 hours of cherry picked edits? if so thats pretty kino

freetard software is bad and behind the curve

no way!

Nobody wants to associate themselves with insane woke cultists. Imagine being a dev that wants to make something different from the standard AAA wokeslop only for the only viable engine to also fall in the same category.

That's why Redot exists. Use Godot without the woke baggage.

and if you just want 2d you've got plenty of better, more fleshed out options.

Like what?

Name one thing of note Redot has done.

Because they're going full retard too.

It's a Godot fork. Everything notable on that engine, Redot can do.

game engines aren't a personality.
you can use their shit and not pay them a single dime.
most of the things you use every day are made by people you politically disagree with.

I'd rather monogame desu

because an engine made by a bunch of unpaid hobbyists is not going to compete with an engine that has billions of dollars behind it for a long long time
also godot is fucking crusty to work with if you're making anything that isn't super simple, every godot dev i know that's been working on a project for 6+ months hates the engine and wants to swap

Okay, but what has Redot done to prove it’s a better alternative to Godot? Have they fixed any of the bugs that Godot hasn’t fixed? Have they implemented any new features to differentiate itself? What has Redot done that is noteworthy?

pretty much kek

Post the womb one

ok

directionless mish-mash of features that embodies the worst of fossfaggotry
pretty sure the lead dev does he even develop anymore now that godot got so much momentum? has some bizarre love-hate relationship with C++, which is why the whole thing is designed around ORIGINAL SCRIPTING LANGUAGE DONUT STEELE that just doesn't fit with the compiled language paradigm
no really, who the fuck picks C++ only to make noncompliant containers, jury rig a reflection system, and use hashmaps for basically everything? somebody who decided that a C++ engine should be a poor man's lua interpreter

you can ramble about "just like make gaem" mentality, the usual foss excuses, and even the fact that godot did indeed get better in some respects
but i wanted to emphasize that schizophrenic inconsistency is basically the root of the whole project, it extends even into general management we foss no warranties, but here is our sponsor page, but you can't complain about performance we are idiot-friendly, but please use godot in production, and is most obvious when you try to understand what is not allowed in the codebase and *why*
read the faq and then try to tell me it's proper explanations, and not pathetic excuses directed at all the people yelling SCONS IS SHIT NIGGA WHAT ARE YOU DOING in their general direction
hint: disallowing exceptions is understandable, but compiling your shit with fno-exceptions doesn't mean it won't crash

yeah it could never run a modern game at decent fps but the pong clone in the tutorial i followed got a solid 60 fps

just like make game

TPBP. GODOT is not ready for primetime.

cuuuteeeee

bunny

somebody who decided that a C++ engine should be a poor man's lua interpreter

And then didn't just use Lua or C++.

They fixed the woke. But not really because if you need support you'll have to go to the Godot Discord.

can't you set that up in Blender

the blender one is baked in the animation, if you want dynamic IK you're fucked with the current implementation that has a massive flaw, and since its marked as deprecated, no one wants to fix it

they should be dominating!!!

why?

b-because we owned the chuds or something

lol

They used a frankienstein's monster version of the engine to even get the piece of shit to work.

write the code yourself then, you have the skeleton midifier node, why the fuck are you making a game if you can't comprehend basic bitch 3D math

if redot ever gets working IK and exporting structs into inspector I might consider switching

I tried but if you use C# you're fucked because C# doesn't have full access to the editor API, while GDscript can but I really don't want to have to use GDscript

wtf is this game? lmao

you shouldn't be allowed to spam kisses, that's too powerful, increase the recovery frames
instead, holding the button should charge up the kiss, culminating in a bigger heart and a louder chu~

Godot had its chance to prove itself with Sonic, but after the engine shit the bed, I don't think it's going far for now.

if you use C# you're fucked

yeah I'm pretty sure C#, like Rust, has _process_modification() available where you can read the skeleton and send back a modified one, literally all you need

it's open source, write the code to give c# full access lmao, how are you making a game if you can't handle programming at all

as I said I tried, but the implementation in C# is fucked and doesn't work properly, I tested with GDscript and it works but I really don't want to have to deal with GDscript
besides writing it straight into the engine means the underlaying code is C++ instead of whatever mess GDscript does

I don't want to have to deal with C++ either, besides I have looked into the IK code to see if I could fix the issue myself but C++ being C++, the code is split into 4 separated scripts and it is very hard to read, I don't have time to deal with that shit

Still something, really. Anon Babble was ready to praise this engine until what happened back in September.

TAA

Who the hell wants an option to make their game look worse?

Yeah trying to use C# in Godot just seems to be asking for trouble. You're inevitably going to be treated like a second-class citizen.

This is why nobody takes freetards seriously.

I haven't kept up with Unity's tomfoolery lately
What have they been up to?

A dev with a pro subscription had people using company email accounts for personal subscriptions, they got sent an email telling him this might be a violation.

lol
If Unity is hurting for money that badly maybe they should cut some of their staff
We all know they aren't doing to improve their engine

What are you on about, more and more people are using Godot with each passing year. Unity's massive install fee fiasco saw a huge bump in new Godot developers. As far as I can tell it appears to be the engine of choice for a lot of indie developers now, only out-competed by Unreal 5

Unity is threatening to revoke all licenses for developers with flawed data that appears to be scraped from personal data

Unity is currently sending emails threatening longtime developers with disabling their access completely over bogus data about private versus public licenses. Their initial email (included below) contained no details at all, but a requirement to "comply" otherwise they reserved the right to revoke our access by May 16th.

When pressed for details, they replied with five emails. Two of which are the names of employees *at another local company* who have never worked for us, and the name of an employee who does not work on Unity at the studio.

I believe this is a chilling look into the future of Unity Technologies as a company and a product we develop on. Unity are threatening to revoke our access to continue development, and feel emboldened to do so casually and without evidence.

Then when pressed for evidence, they have produced something that would be laughable - except that they *somehow* gathered various names that call into question how they gather and scrape data. This methodology is completely flawed, and then being applied dangerously - with short-timeframe threats to revoke all license access

You can read the entire post here:
reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/lszUMoEFKT

But TLDR:
Jewnity is fucking over developers for short term gain once again.

real devs get put off when they realize that it's a cult

you never have to interact with the community at all

Why are people giving picrel such a hard time when Unity does shit like this? Maybe they’re switching the entire game over to a new engine?

They've always done this, it's not new, and AFAIK they're usually reasonable if you attempt to communicate. Dean is a drama queen. Same guy refuses to put his next game on Steam and can't explain why.

they could've said so

No texture streaming, no real asset store, lack of modern APIs, no built in physics replication, no anticheat, much easier to access the full source code and assets, unique shader language, lack of port options and mismanagement.

All of those contribute. In order explaining them.
3D is very hands on and you need to know engine specific optimisations to work around it. Lack of a real asset store means that it's less beginner friendly. Limited APIs so bad even the mobile market is dry. Networking needs a bunch of code written by yourself to get it replicable so that any game using physics shows everyone the same situation. No anticheat solutions work with Godot so all competitive multiplayer games are dead on arrival. Due to being open source it's easy to extract everything pretty easily making cheats easier to make. The shader language isn't hard to learn but it's unique and has some quirks that come with the engine. No port options is just a net negative, they can't fix it due to being open source but it's still a point against them when people consider engines. The project is massively mismanaged intentionally, focusing on features their friends can implement for their CVs rather than popular community requests.

what gaem?

honestly it seems like something they were doing to the chinese gacha companies to shake them down and since they're all printing infinite gacha money they just comply without contesting and just chalk it up to cost of doing business.
doesn't work when you try to hit smaller companies paying attention.

Bombun

Bombun I think, by Kekitopu

It's a shit engine

Unitykids will never quit.
Unity added terms that they technically own your firstborn, they abandoned unity for Godot, got mad that Godot wasnt just FOSS Unity, and went back to Unity making sure to tick "I AGREE, TAKE MY KIDS"

much easier to access the full source code and assets,

there are literally apps to decompile unity games out there, if you want a similar level of complexity in godot use C#, since you still need C# decompiling tools to access the code instead of GDscript being plain text to see

lack of port options

sure you can't just click "switch" and the engine spits out a switch rom, but you can still do the port yourself since its open source, there are some godot games on consoles already

mismanagement

agreed

Folks

You don't belong here, leftoid

No texture streaming,