Godot... But Prettier 

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Thanks for showing how to use my theme! ♥

"the interface that only mother could love" 💀💀

As someone who started with Godot 4, the first version was a jump scare

Bro, you've just fixed my problem of not feeling comfortable using godot that i had for more than 3 years.

The new theme and asset bar are huge improvement. Thank-you. I wish more engines would prioritize UI theming, as we spend a lot of time looking at the app.

I find the Godot default Dark blue quite warming in contrast to unity's gray/unreal's black which looks like taken out from 1990 (I am only talking about the color, not the design).

Tbh, I can't imagine working with a horizontal FileSystem docker. It feels way too crammed and involves way too much scrolling for my taste. I usually even have the FS docker on its own column, so I can see a lot of folders and files on the screen at once and even then I still have to scroll a lot when the projects grow.

Wow this theme actually looks good

Godot’s UI is honestly pretty flawless. It’s one of the first things people find appealing about the engine.

blud just flexed his pc by opening Three of them at same time. 💀

I prefer the default look

"Like Maya brought out the QWERTY keys ... everybody should adobt that" *Blender stares intensely from the other side of the room From an aesthetics point of view I would consider Godot functional looking and getting better. I also kinda like unreal the best, even though I would ALWAYS prefer a responsive UI over a pretty one. And Unreal on lower end hardware can be very unresponsive. Even their shop / Epic launcher alone. Ugh. I always consider actual usability, flow, accessibility and consistency the most important thing of an application.

I like the way that godot is already

glad im not the only one who doesnt really like the godot blue. the minimal theme is great, def need to try it out

Yes, I see why you like that theme and plugin. It's indeed more appealing to the eyes.

Marvellous! I love this interface, Thank you for showing us this way of making godot prettier 😁

I didn't think godot could look this good. Huge props for suggesting the asset drawer plugin, absolutely brilliant

Thank you sir, I downloaded Godot yesterday and I usually use Unreal but wanted to make a lighter project. I randomly stumbled upon your video and it basically sets up godot to the UE layout which I just love. With this I'm off to a good start !

I really missed the possibility to theme the editor when I was using Unity basically daily for like 2 years. Sometimes it'd be just nice to switch out a color theme and make it a bit more enjoyable. I'm really happy that this is possible in Godot.

Just change blue color to yellow/orange/Green/Red. It looks so good. You can change the editor color easily.

Ama switch to godot since brackeys is back for godot

I actually like the slate blue, but a neutral grey is probably better for not influencing the aesthetics of the project you're working on.

I *feel* like Godot's UI is kinda large where it's unnecessary and really uncomfortably tiny where you need larger icons or buttons or whatever. Wish they had modern Blender look. The old Blender was light-gray plastic look and feel and i hated it so much i didn't use Blender. But i do use it since they changed the UI.

super good video, saved for future reference when i start Godot learning

I'll still prefer godot theme. It feels like cozy .

Wow looks so nice with the modificatons!

I got the theme and asset drawer, looks nice. I like having more space more my game/coding panel. I didnt use his colors though, I already had my preferred colors set up. :) Thanks for the video!

Thanks for the heads up. I agree with everything in this video and you just got me a new godot theme.

Looks really Great 👍

Unreal's Ui looks te best, but I disagree on bleu not being okay. Contrary, blue is often used in composition for backgrounds, since the sky is bleu. And lakes or sea, ocean, very often are background. There is some sane logic behind the choice of blue. Blue can also be use to express distance, especially in landscapes.

Great theme! I usually switch to the grey theme but I’ll definitely use this

Thanks for making this video♥

Thank your for the video , really helped me out

Great video! The UI was always my biggest reason for not getting engaged. I see myself using it more now.

This is great , definitely something I will use. I was planning on making something to this effect , the moment I opened up the Godot theme my head just exploded at the bulk. Godot really needs to rework it's theme engine working with it is such a headache far from being user or programmer friendly.

i really like your final setup.

The nice, clean, comfortable look of the current 4.0 interface is perfect. They've done a great job tweaking it each iteration.

Thanks for the tip, it looks awesome!

I only work in Godot, but I really like the way UE4 looks and the way the interface elements are placed in Unity, although those corners in Unity will cut your eye. I tried your suggestion right away. I really liked how the interface shrunk down decently. I remember in the Godot community discussing how the engine has an exessive use of outlines and some elements have well, a lot of extra lines that just take up interface space. I also noticed how the square corners of all of Godot's buttons and fields have been smoothed out, and I really like that. All modern apps have been without square buttons for a long time now, and this change has modernised Godot quite a bit :D I've been wanting to try a similar layout for a long time, but have had a hard time with the file system. The file system asset was the cherry on the cake, it really did get better with it. Thanks for the recommendation!

Oh my god asset drawer is so nice thank you for telling us!

Great video. Thanks!

As somebody coming over from UE, this was a godsend - thank you so much for showing the possibilities!

Tbh Godot's starting to need an UI revamping sort of what blender 2.8 did

Remember when you needed a paid Unity licence to use the dark theme? Had to pay them to make your eyes not bleed. People used to patch the editor binary to unlock it without a licence. Glad it's not a thing anymore, it was so stupid.

I usually just change the default colors and thats all i need. but the theme is actually really great

thats so useful, tysm!

Godot doesn't need to be pretty, but more performant. It'd better have something like Unity DOTS for C#, so we could make a massive open-world multiplayer game like V Rising with it

Your layout is very blender esq and I honestly quite like that. Might adopt it myself

brutal on godot 1 XD butt thanks Ididn't even know I could move things around your setup looks cleaner I'm going to try it THANKS!

all the UIs are good enough and relatively similar in practice to me. they could all be improved a lot in terms of ux and organization, but the colors are the least of my concerns

Oh.. thats odd to hear. I personally thought Godots default UI was actually quite visually appealing and intuitive in 4.0 But as you said, eye of the beholder I guess :P

Godot reminds me of all the scratch versions lol. I've been around since scratch 1 up to 3 and Godot 1-4 has just as amazing a change omg

I like the default theme. The asset drawer though sounds great though.

I love Godot's color scheme. Adding ANY color, even a grayish-blue is still miles better than the standard grayscale colors of other engines and tools. It just feels more like a fun program for making fun games, and not a serious, adult, sleek corporate tool.

Freakn yeah man this is great

Only thing that I care within a tool to have a dark theme, rest what is more important is UX, lack of weirdness and performance. Maybe unreal in UI in this version is quite nice, but UX is same craziness that was in Unreal since forever. In short, nothing is matter except dark theme.

It's funny how UE4 was one of the roughest, and it went in UE5 to looking the best

I came from BGE (the engine inside older versions of blender) and the biggest thing I missed in godot is the possibility to add, remove and change the tabs. As an example, I used to let 2 tabs on right, with scene objects and the properties, while the main part of the screen was filled with the 3D view and at the bottom the scripting tab. Everything was easy to access easy, if I want more focus (ou more space for text) in one tab, a shortcut would make it fullscreen, and if I was doing things like animation, was just a matter of changing the bottom tab to the animation editor. It was hard to get used to not move everything whenever nedded

didn't know about ctrl+space, thanks!

Unity have always aesthetic between interface of Windows XP and old school iMac and only few years ago finally got a dark mode, nobody ever talk about any fancy editor themes

The way you had your Godot set up by the end reminds me a lot of Cinema 4D

Yeah I agreed with the UE UI is the best looking UI

Why does Godot bot look like Peter Parker from Spider-Man 3. Good video as always. I prefer having my docks (4x) on the left-side since I read left to right and it's easier to drag assets to the GDscript/view window being a right-handie.

Thanks for bringing the attention to this. I agree with your "ranking" of UX aesthetics between the 3. UE looks the best, followed by Godot and Unity desperately needs a face lift.

Godot interface seems somehow old-fashioned to me, reminds me a little of the late 90s . I find Unity the most pleasant, Unreal 5 the most beautiful.

unreal had a nice UI back when there weren't so many features

I like the blue theme, but supported custom themes with fonts, and theme maker that include fonts would be awesome for Godot. Also not always open in full screen, and open in the last state you had it in would go awesome.

bottom system file was added in godot 4.3

As someone working for my company as Tools Programmer I need to check if our editor has Ctrl+Space show/hide functionality (not this key combination as it can be rebinded, but overall functionality). If it doesn't I guess it's time to get inspired ;)

My guess with the blue is that is a somewhat in-between dark and light color, so dark mode devs are not being blinded and light mode devs dont find it too dark to complain. Blue is also a really good color for making something both a bit more approachable and appealing.

In my humble opinion: Default Godot is really great and perfectly fine to use. It's good if people like this, but it's such a minimal change that I don't think productivity would really change.

I totally agree about the CTRL+Space opening the asset browser from unreal engine, every single engine show copy that, after using that and going to a different engine it feels like such a chore to find the asset browser

9:09 Mike: BEHOLD! GODUNITY!

Happy that you find a theme you enjoy. Unreal has the worst UI/UX IMO, but I'm a programmer that learned using Unity. Godot default is good enough for me, but now I know how to customize the theme when I want.

I am making a game and this video scares the hell out of me. As a systems programmer I like godot 4's ui interface. You saying it is ugly makes me think I have no business making any kind of design oriented decisions 😂

I feel like pam from the office. "Same thing"

Its not a phase mom.

So basically, you turned the godot ui into UE's ui? Can't argue with that!

Staggering!

The blue makes it stand out and matches the godot logo which will never change either if you believe Juan 😃

The default layout is great for ultrawide monitors as you can have a standard 16:9 viewport with room on either side for the tabs, but I do like this layout for a standard monitor.

In a world of ultra wide, the extra screen real estate is not in the top or bottom - it's to the left and right.

I got started in Game dev using Godot 3 and have 4, and when I tried Unity out I thought that it was ugly and outdated looking in comparison to Godot. I hate the 3d navigation in Unity it seems wonky and weird to me, and if you have multiple assets/prefabs that look similar but have subtle differences you can't tell them apart at a glance in the folder because the Titles are cut-off halfway, then imagine a big game project with hundreds of these and you have to hover over them and look down in the corner to see the full title! I hope you can change that in the preferences. Yeah I think Godot's UI is much cleaner, don't mind the blueish gray, if you can change the color yourself that's cool too.

Today tools aesthetics to me means zero, what I care more about is power, stability and usability. Tools are not games or art they don't need to be pretty they need to work well. I have been bitten hard by caring to much about tool aesthetics before, I've seen really bad game engines, with tools with pretty GUI's but those tools were very unstable and under powered. I have also used engines with tools that looked like Windows XP apps but that were rock solid and very powerful. The best is a mix of the two but that in my experience is hard to come by.

Appreciate the share but both of them seem fairly equivalent to me in appeal to me personally ; however I did not know themes were available for the UI so great news in any case.

Alternative title , making godot look like unity

I don't get the hate behind the blue theme, it's not distracting to me but it's more comforting.

nice one

UE5 is my favorite. It's even a big improvement from UDK and UE4 days. I remember playing with Steam and Cryengine back in the day and those were just painful to use IMO.

Honestly, that first version looks charming, like a childs doodle

Is there a video compilation out there, of Godot games going from the first version to now?

Yep, this is what I've been looking for in Godot and I didn't even know it

Hello Godotfromscratch

I think Godot 4 with just the gray theme looks the best.

It would have been nice to show a godot4 stock vs godot4 themed side-by-side at the end, it's easy enough to bootleg it up with skipping between timestamps but it would have been nice anyway, something to keep in mind for future videos in this style perhaps (ideally showing the exact same scene as well)? For anyone else wanting to do this: 3:34 & 10:34 Now I actually don't hate godot4's (especially compared to stock godot 2 which I used enough to develop Stockholm syndrome) factory look & feel, but I do agree that the minimal theme, asset drawer, and theme tweaks takes it up a notch!

The thumbnail had me assuming you were going to talk about Prettier, a code formatter having gotten GD Script support but themes are interesting too. 😅

Now let's talk about the non-existing Blender Material shelf ;-)

To be honest, I've always liked GoDot, at least I never found it ugly. I actually like version 3 better than the current one, although I really like your layout idea with the assets in the footer area.

As nice as that theme is, I've got to say that I am quite fond of the blue tint. The plugin for the drawer also seems quite useful, but I really prefer my filesystems vertical. It is much easier to handle and worth sacrificing screen space for me.