Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by SquareWheel » Fri, May 29, 2020, 7:13 PM UTC

Godot Editor running in a web browser
godotengine.org

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by msie » Fri, May 29, 2020, 7:38 PM UTC

Godot is such an amazing/polished game engine. I like it a lot more than Unity (at least for 2D).

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by antoineMoPa » Fri, May 29, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

I wonder when firefox will re enable SharedArrayBuffer.

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by xrd » Fri, May 29, 2020, 8:12 PM UTC

msie wrote: post #2

Godot is such an amazing/polished game engine. I like it a lot more than Unity (at least for 2D).

I clicked on the doc link from within the native editor. It is less of a tutorial than I had hoped. Do you have a suggestion for getting started with it?

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by jszymborski » Fri, May 29, 2020, 8:13 PM UTC

antoineMoPa wrote: post #3

I wonder when firefox will re enable SharedArrayBuffer.

Seeing as it's available in Firefox Nightly, it'd imagine it'd be in the next release provided it doesn't present any problems from then and now.

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by IshKebab » Fri, May 29, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

msie wrote: post #2

Godot is such an amazing/polished game engine. I like it a lot more than Unity (at least for 2D).

How does it compared to Unreal? I've been using it a little to try and make a VR game and it's generally quite good I'm finding there are loads of bugs, or at least weird behaviours with materials and the OpenGL ES3 mode. And every time you change a setting it compiles like 3000 shaders which takes half an hour. Quite frustrating!

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by jszymborski » Fri, May 29, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

xrd wrote: post #4

msie wrote: post #2

Godot is such an amazing/polished game engine. I like it a lot more than Unity (at least for 2D).

I clicked on the doc link from within the native editor. It is less of a tutorial than I had hoped. Do you have a suggestion for getting started with it?

The step by step docs have been very useful for me: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

If you're a "work bacwards from a finished project" kind of person, this tutorial is quite great as well

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by xrd » Fri, May 29, 2020, 8:17 PM UTC

jszymborski wrote: post #7

xrd wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I clicked on the doc link from within the native editor. It is less of a tutorial than I had hoped. Do you have a suggestion for getting started with it?

The step by step docs have been very useful for me: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_... If you're a "work bacwards from a finished project" kind of person, this tutorial is quite great as well https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/step_...

That's great. And, I love that the examples all specify /home/ubuntu as the home directory, so the author is clearly using Linux. This is really cool.

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by t0astbread » Fri, May 29, 2020, 8:19 PM UTC

I'm still amazed how small the Godot editor is (last time I checked it was ~25MB). Just how are they able to pack this much functionality into such little space?

Re: Godot Editor running in a web browser

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Post by z3t4 » Fri, May 29, 2020, 8:20 PM UTC

It's amazing that a native Windows/Mac app can be compiled to run in a web browser. However Web-assembly does not mean better performance. A native browser app would most likely be faster.