Godot For Unity Developers 

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The Unity community moving to Godot and bringing their expertise and ideas to the project is one of the best things to happen in a while. I hope Godot can become the Blender of game development someday.

I love how Mike just keeps making 2-3 videos a day after unity announcement. Thats how you make the most out of the situation😅😅

Thanks Unity for promoting Godot

An influx of devs is massive for the development speed of an open-source project like Godot. It becoming an industry standard someday like Blender did would be fantastic.

Very important thing to mention to new devs: 2D and 3D are handled completely separately. I've seen some people struggle with that, switching between 2D and 3D and being confused where their scene went.

What an exciting time to make games. This Unity situation is such a blessing in disguise. Not only is there significantly more Godot YT content than there was a year ago, but the engine is totally updated and now so many people seem to be helping Unity users switch over. Thanks Mike for this video. It feels good to dive into a program that won't siphon money away from you at some point.

It's insane how detailed the documentation is for Godot. It is hands down, the best documentation I've seen for game engines I've used.

As a Unity Dev that's jumping ship to Godot, this is exactly the content we need right now. Thank you for the video and I'm really looking forward to starting my Godot journey!

Rumors are there is a unity logo hanging on a wall in the Godot development headquarters with the say: "employer of the month"

I just wanted to extend my thanks to you for this excellent familiarization tutorial! I'm a Unity dev of over 10 years both professionally and personally. Obviously like most of us, Unity's most recent scumbaggery has finally pushed me to look into other options. The fact Godot is free and open source is a breath of fresh air. I just want to be able to exercise my creativity and create my games without having all my potential profits siphoned from me. Unfortunately, I've been put in a position where I'll probably be porting the game I've been working on for so long from Unity into Godot. It's also unfortunate that I'll probably just have to eat the cost of the Unity packages that I've invested in as well... Videos like this are a Godsend though in helping make the process a little less painful.

Every minute I learn more about Godot, I'm further questioning why I didn't switch from Unity a long time ago. I understand that Godot 4.0 is relatively new and added a lot of features, but this UI is just...so much better. It's blowing my mind that this is fully open source, and in my opinion better in most ways than one of the largest commercial engines available.

After trying godot for 2 days, my thought is this: Godot 3D has most of features that unity has, but I haven't find a good volumetric lighting effect. Godot UI is better than Unity. Godot particle system is similar to unity but with a bit more options, but it seems to have less features than Unity's vfx graph. Godot editor runs faster than unity, but iterating stuff is slower than Unity: trying out different materials, different textures take more click, and Godot can't open more than one file directory. Godot's shader editor is slightly better than Unity, it has better customizable nodes. Converting shadertoy's shader to Godot is easier than to Unity. Godot switching "render pipeline" is easier than unity.

Unity is a proud sponsor of Godot

Mike you're killing it hah, so many good videos. Glad to see your support in this! All the best

Grabbed it after the unity news. only planned to use it for a fan game, but I don't want to put unitys name in the project anymore. Was immediately impressed by godot just in first impressions. No ridiculously long and complicated install process? Built in Light weight IDE? Honestly looks to be an improvement even without unity fishy business practices lol.

As many have said, this is also my final nail in the coffin for Unity. I am really excited to start working with Godot and port some of my Unity projects to it. Also, good naming of the project - Don't Panic! Godot is here.

For Unity-Devs who are freshly switching to Godot I don't recommend starting in GDScript, but in C# to have a more familiar environment to work with. Unterstanding Godots Node functions is soo much easier this way. And it allowed me to actually start programming or rather porting my 10 million lines of code to the engine. Other than that: I really appreciate this introduction. Thank you very much!

I hope some of these devs migrating to Godot that want to keep using C# actually contribute to Godot C# and improve the development.

When you consider which version of Godot to use, keep in mind that Godot 4.1 with C# currently does not have Web Browser and Android exporting support yet. If you want to support Web Browser exports specifically, Godot 3 is your best option currently, but its possible to make it work with Godot 4 (non C# version). Godot 4.2 will have full Android export support again, experimental versions are available rn.

I just looked at Godot yesterday and... i'm intrigued to say the least, it looks very user friendly and easy to get into

Well, i didnt expect to change from Unity since I've been using it since my early college years, but at the light of the recent events, im glad you created this video. You just got a subscriber and hoping to see more tutorials. I would very much appreciate a tutorial or video on how to develop to VR/Oculus with GODOT

What a super exciting time for Godot, rip Unity I love Godot really hoping it takes over and the community based videos sky rocket

Thank you for all your content and support in the community! As someone who wants to get back into Godot after years away, I hope I learn something from you!

Great video, wanted to go for unreal but I got crushed by it's size. You changed my mind and I'll probably stick to godot.

This video has already taught me more of Godot than many have shown me of Unity. I'm not sure what it is, I think this engine just feels easier to pick up once you start tinkering with it. I've known of it for a while but never bothered trying it. Definitely gonna see what I can do here, thanks for the good starting boost!

If you look at Unity's scene tree you realise it looks a bit like this: Scene - GameObject - GameObject - MonoBehaviour In the end, that's a Tree diagram, but with limits like it has to have Scene as a root, and MonoBehaviour can only be a leaf without children, with GameObjects in between. The Godot version is much simpler, having nodes at each level, but the nodes are typed instead of being a generic container until you reach the MonoBehaviour. With that in mind it's easy to convert a Unity scene view into a Godot one. Often you even design your prefabs with a root GameObject that has some custom behaviour scripts, and then you put the 3D models, sound emitters, particles, and so on as children of that GameObject. The main difference to keep in mind is that you lift one of the behaviours up to replace the GameObject when you move to Godot. That and that you create subclasses of the more specific functions instead of making a generic MonoBehaviour that then hooks into other behaviours. If you can wrap your head around that you're well on your way to grok Godot. Of course, there's changes in the details of how things are done, but that's the main one that people tend to react to. I personally prefer Godot's version since it's a straight up implementation of a Tree data structure, used to make a Scene Tree. That's despite that I've not made anything at all in Godot really. And you can even structure a Godot scene tree to be essentially the same as Unity by making your scripts all extend the base Node and put them under a Node3D to act as the GameObject, at that point it's mostly a difference in function and property names.

This mass exodus to Godot also gives Godot an incentive to improve more and more (especially it's 3D side) until it becomes on-par with Unity and Unreal.

Probably the best quick overview I've seen on the godot engine. Would be happy to watch more in-depth tutorials on godot

I used Unity for years as a hobby, but it's about time they got a wake up call. Originally, I switched from Unity to Godot, not because I hated Unity or anything, but because the Unity editor had trouble with running on lower end hardware. So, I couldn't do any programming if I was out of the house since my laptop at the time was really old and crusty. All of the recent bad decisions are why I'm not going back. If the Godot devs want to go in for the kill, they should give someone money to make something like RPG Builder for the Godot engine. That will help pull in more people from Unity.

The hearse kit being an "appropriate choice" was the perfect shade of shade. A+ my man.

Thank you Unity for helping me get to know Godot. Thanks indeed.

I know the news surrounding Unity pretty much sucks across the board, but on the bright side, what a unique opportunity for channels like yours Mike. Having extensive experience in both engines and an accompanying RU-vid channel to post content like this on? Hoooo boy ;) Thanks for the content, luckily for me personally I switched to Godot a few years back already. FOSS rules.

Thank you. I hope all unity devs and people who started their game dev journey recently (like me) have a good time!

Perfect video for Unity Refugees looking into Godot. Thank you for making this Godot tutorial guide. Hopefully the all powerful algorithm will spread this to all Unity Developers interested in Godot game engine. ❤ Thank you!

The biggest blessing here for me, personally, is that professionally I need to focus on Python anyway, so switching to GDScript is a no-brainer, in spite of my previous experience with (and preference for) curly brace languages.

One of the cool things about Godot is if you wanted to make a game that's optimized for the Steam Deck, you could develop the game ON the Steam Deck.

I haven't been this excited to learn a new engine since I first learned Unity in highschool 10 years ago.

@17:20 I've been using godot for over a year now and I didn't know you could just drag+drop tabs! Coool!

It has been a while since I checked in on Godot. It has come a long way! The migration from Unity to Godot is going to be a snap. Thanks!!

Godot is a great engine, I switched from Unity a year ago and I don’t regret it!

I scrapped two game ideas the last two years and had just started one about 7 months ago. I'd only really created my assets and wrote some code - not late enough to switch to Godot C#. God works in mysterious ways man...

i have 0 experience with game dev but i am a seasoned web dev. your video is so clear and easy to follow, best one i've seen on godot.

One new feature of Godot I really appreciate is the ability to customize which nodes are visible in the nodes menu, so if I'm only working in 2D or 3D, I can speed up the workflow by disabling the visibility of them in the menu.

I should have switched a long time ago. Godot feels a bit less user friendly on some part but it's open source and lightweight, I'm totally moving to it for good this time. Thanks for the video 👍

Today, I watched Godot tutorials and I discovered that I can easily switch from Unity to Godot. It's the first time I am watching Godot tutorials

For me, the two biggest conceptual differences with learning Godot were that scenes are the same as prefabs (mentioned in this video, but could have been focused on more), and that 1 node = 1 component. In Unity and Unreal, a game object can have LOTS of components attached. In Godot, your base node will have a ton of child nodes each with exactly 1 behavior. This affects how you think about node hierarchies, class extension, and node references. I've found myself structuring things differently in Unity and Unreal after learning Godot. Previously, I was very stingy with game objects and would load them up with a ton of components, sometimes multiple copies of the same component class. When referencing them in another component, I'd just have to differentiate them by their data. But giving key behaviors their own game objects makes them much easier to find and distinguish in the scene.

I LOVEEEEE the fact that godot does not have the billion useless features that unity has tbh, it makes everything make sense to me.

So helpful! Would salivate over specific tutorials for us Unity users so I don't have to muddy too much through beginner content

Barring some massive change of events I will be migrating to Godot after my current project wraps up, Thanks for the great video.

Coming from Cocos2D (like 10+years ago) the node/scene system is identical and very nice to use, loved it.. , then I moved to Unity, and now I guess to Godot :)

Unity's implosion is hard for me, as it is a genuine production setback (many months - near a year of work to redo) but I kind of saw it coming months ago, already began donating to the Godot dev fund a few months back knowing using Godot was a potential plan B if Unity's horrid CEO did something staggeringly dumb, which he did. I am now all in on Godot and will be donating regularly and figuring out how to rebuild my gamedev projects with Godot. Wasted $300+ total on Unity assets, will likely put similar amount or more toward Godot over the next year as a show of support for what I hope will be a far better toolset.

As a JavaScript programmer, I understood this perfectly, Excellent performance.

When I got into Godot there wasn't a lot of tutorials because the community was so small back then, hitting a wall take a lot of time to get over. As Godot get more popular and now if Unity's devs starting to switch over, it's gonna make life easier for both veteran and new indie devs. And oh boy, do I'm glad that i chose Godot over Unity.

Holy moly a new tutorial from mike? It has been years!

It's amazing how Godot works on Android so well

Thank you for taking us Unity devs in, I feel like a refugee seeking asylum to escape a corrupt unjust government lol

Finally. When I saw there is light theme for editor I was instantly convinced to use Godot.

I feel kinda sad that I was starting to think learning Unity and getting hands dirty with C# in general. I feel glad though that I have already used Godot and it's having a massive rush of popularity. Amazing tutorial btw.

Thanks really appreciated. But damn didn't expect Godot to be this simple and powerful

If I made a Godot game, i would make a splash screen or put the logo all over in my game. I'm so happy to see all the new Godot support. 💕

Brilliant introduction - thankyou very much. This will prove to be very useful for obvious reasons.

FINALLY! A tutorial aimed specifically for Unity devs looking to switch

Amazing video! Very informative and straight to the point :) Very much inspired me to get into the engine and tinker with it

I have to say thank you very much Mike. This will certainly give confidence to those that are on the fence.

I'm not developing any game at moment, but a liked your video and downloaded Godot engine. Im a huge fan of Phaser engine philosophy, Godot seens have the same spirit. The opportUNITY showed and the commUNITY growed. PS: Im not a english native speaker.

Unity is inspiring us by promoting other game engines ✨✨✨⭐😊😊😊

I'd love to see this influx of Unity devs' feedback work towards adding and refining features in Godot to make it that much more polished and accessible for newcomers

A lot of people doesn't know about Open 3D Engine which is an amazing open source engine. Made by Amazon and now under the Linux foundation. I hope in the near future for Godot and O3DE to be the industry standards. Let the big fat companies earn more money.

LOL, this is exactly the video I need. Of course you know that because that's why you made it, thank you.

We just need more and more varied tutorials on Godot.

Love the channel and all the alternative engines you keep showing us. The one I'm most interested in is Flax. Wondering if you'd be willing to do a similar video on that or if you could point to some good resources for that. Thanks.

Thank you for the service you provide throughout these times of need.

Spent my free time the past week learning Godot and so far I can say I like it better than Unity, maybe that will change when I hit some of the engines limitations, but the fact that you can add in your own source code via C++ for custom engines blows my mind and could make it superior to Unity in ways.

I'm still laughing at the choice of asset and how you just casually commented on that choice. Made my day. Looking forward to more transition videos :)

For a second, i thought the title said "Godot is Unity for developers", which to be honest, is pretty fitting xd

I develop my next title in Bevy and so far it is stunning.

This is one of the best beginner tutorials i've ever seen.

0:40 There's one major concern when downloading Godot 4 vs Godot 4 with C#. At present, Godot 4 C# projects cannot be exported to iOS. You can use the Godot 3 LTS version if you need to export to iOS while using C#.

I'm not looking in to switching over just now since I have some projects WIP but there are some things I really would hope are part of the Godot pipeline that are a given in Unity for an example. With Unity I can save a .max file from 3ds Max to an asset folder inside my project and once it's in the scene it's updated automatically every time I make changes in 3ds Max and save the file. It's a small thing but it becomes a huge thing over time when you're finalizing files hopping between Max and Unity to polish technicalities like UVs, rigging or cleaning up meshes etc. If I had to click a menu and press "reimport" or whatever every time that would accumulate over time. Saving files in Photoshop as PSD links them automatically aswell, you don't need to save as a .PNG to use inside the engine. You can make changes to the PSD in Photoshop, save the file as it is and it's updated in Unity with every change. Stuff like this, QOL things mostly. Those always seem a bit lacking in newer/more lightweight engines.

GFS, you nailed it. Whom better to make such a video, given your experience with a plethora of engines and applications in general. And holy $#@+ thank you for showing that Godot is not GDScript vs C#--use the language that is best for the situation--code some in GDScript, C#, C++, and up until recently a visual script.

Hey, not being able to preview the scene running in the ""editor"" is literally a gamechanger, I mean how will I be able to code without seeing how the things move while the game is running? Is there already any plugin or anything to do that? Godot has a very long way to reach the level of stuff Unity already has.

Attention all Unity Devs switching to Godot. Please keep up the long time tradition of building a custom Godot launch screen for your game using your game's art style. :) Unlike Unity, we're proud of our engine here - not ashamed of it.

This is a great push for Godot and other open source engines. I always work only with free open source tools so I don't have to deal with such situations as with Unity/etc. ☝🧐👍

great video! one thing I would have liked to see is how you go about loading + instantiating a scene, since loading an managing lots of assets in memory is a big part of how I would architect a Unity project.

Yay! More great videos for Godot please 😊

dropping video at right time, good job

Great video. Actually quite informative, as I know about Godot, but have little hands on experience with Godot. The video is a bit rushed, but... I actually prefer it, as it get to results quicker and I can always rewind. Plus the enthusiasm is makes me want to try things. 2 points that I was expecting were: Godot used pixels in 2d so you can get PIXEL PERFECT that would be better then Unity and 2 there are importers to go from Unity to Godot in SECONDS. Maybe those point will be in a "Godot for Unity Developers with a existing project" video?

I’m currently playing with flax engine, thank you for your videos.

I've already used Godot before. Good to see it's getting more popular. Free and Open Sourced Software for all. Also, remember. Most software has it's free and open sourced equivalent. For FL Studio thats LMMS, For Chrome it's Chromium. For Windows thats Linux and for Linux thats FreeBSD etc

Good good, this has come out at the right moment

Thanks I’m becoming more and more comfortable with the change but I still recommend using unity for animations and movies

Bravo, bravo and bravo! Clear and concise. Loved it!

Thanks for making this video, I'm sure it will help a lot of people

very good intro to godot, thank you!

jesus 2 videos a day thats alot dont burn yourself out

the key thing is that do not forgot to donate, to water the tree! when installing godot. if everyone invest small amount of resources into alternative tools we will have competitive open source tools and healthy market!

This might be something I need to watch end to end... for reasons.

my fav thing about unity is how easy it is to add your own tools & buttons in the inspector (especially with odin). any tips there for godot?

I've been using Godot for a while now, since UE and Unity both were not quite to my taste and I found Godot superiour in an 2D enviroment and easier to use. That was just a few years ago and Godot has grown massively, not just community wise but also bringing alot of improvements. I saw someone in the comments who said that Godot might just become industry standard and after my experience with all three Unity, Unreal and Godot as well with the way they handle their community I could not agree more. I really hope Godot won't be sold once big offers come in and their potential is seen but as long as it is in the hands it is currently in, I have no concerns that they would pull something anywhere like Unity did. And I'm looking forward in many more Videos appearing of people showcasing cool and handy ways of programming certain things in Godot, with hopefully many Unity devs joining the blue robots side!