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I've had a similar experience. Godot is a fantastic 2D engine, and a capable 3D engine. If your goal is shipping a fully featured 3D game I'd still recommend Un

I've had a similar experience. Godot is a fantastic 2D engine, and a capable 3D engine. If your goal is shipping a fully featured 3D game I'd still recommend Unity or Unreal over Godot, unless you're comfortable with it not being an industry leader. For 2D however, I'd recommend Godot above anything. Godot 4.0 still has a long way to go before it's ready for everyday use fortunately, not even in alpha state yet so I wouldn't judge it too prematurely.

keyle 5y ago
To be fair, it's perfectly fine for 3D, such as traditional "isometric" style 3D. It suffers more with the lack of clever culling in first person style cameras, especially near large objects (it renders the whole object, even if 5% of it is seen).
- onion2k 5y ago
  it renders the whole object, even if 5% of it is seen Do other engines cull parts of objects?
  - bluefirebrand 5y ago
    Absolutely. Vertex culling is a long-standing 3D engine optimization.
  - kayamon 5y ago
    No.
- videogreg93 5y ago
  Godot 4.0 will include occlusion culling actually, so there's hope.
Buttons840 5y ago
And as mentioned in the article/release, they are serious about maintaining Godot 3 and won't neglect it in favor of 4.
- hnick 5y ago
  The more comments I read in this thread, the more this sounds like Perl 5 and Perl 6.
  - enragedcacti 5y ago
    It seems as though this is kind of a common paradigm for game engines. Because the tech and/or best practices move so quickly, trying to lock in full backwards compatibility becomes a burden and thus engine devs fall back to "If you started your game on 3.x then it's probably best to stay there. Your next game can start fresh on 4.x"
  - Buttons840 5y ago
    Why Pearl instead of the dozens of other successful projects that maintain a stable version while working on a new version?
    - hnick 5y ago
      Because I worked with Perl and got burned a bit so it came to mind. I understand game engines are different and people build against stable versions for years sometimes.
  - bartvk 5y ago
    It'll take some time before you can confidently make that assessment, though. It took ten years for Perl 6 to come out, and then actually it didn't come out as Perl.
blensor 5y ago
It's also slowly, becoming an alternative for VR development. They even had hand tracking on the Oculus Quest before Unity and UE
- extraduder_ire 5y ago
  > They even had hand tracking on the Oculus Quest before Unity and UE facebook is a large financial contributor to the godot project. I think they do some dev work too. I get the impression they really want more VR games to exist, and work well on their device, no matter how they get there.
  - blensor 5y ago
    Yeah, FB/Oculus has quite the interest in Godot. But at the moment there is no official Quest game made with Godot yet AFAIK. So far we made it into AppLab with VRWorkout, but the store is a completely different story

keyle 5y ago

To be fair, it's perfectly fine for 3D, such as traditional "isometric" style 3D. It suffers more with the lack of clever culling in first person style cameras, especially near large objects (it renders the whole object, even if 5% of it is seen).

onion2k 5y ago
it renders the whole object, even if 5% of it is seen Do other engines cull parts of objects?
- bluefirebrand 5y ago
  Absolutely. Vertex culling is a long-standing 3D engine optimization.
- kayamon 5y ago
  No.
videogreg93 5y ago
Godot 4.0 will include occlusion culling actually, so there's hope.

Buttons840 5y ago

And as mentioned in the article/release, they are serious about maintaining Godot 3 and won't neglect it in favor of 4.

hnick 5y ago
The more comments I read in this thread, the more this sounds like Perl 5 and Perl 6.
- enragedcacti 5y ago
  It seems as though this is kind of a common paradigm for game engines. Because the tech and/or best practices move so quickly, trying to lock in full backwards compatibility becomes a burden and thus engine devs fall back to "If you started your game on 3.x then it's probably best to stay there. Your next game can start fresh on 4.x"
- Buttons840 5y ago
  Why Pearl instead of the dozens of other successful projects that maintain a stable version while working on a new version?
  - hnick 5y ago
    Because I worked with Perl and got burned a bit so it came to mind. I understand game engines are different and people build against stable versions for years sometimes.
- bartvk 5y ago
  It'll take some time before you can confidently make that assessment, though. It took ten years for Perl 6 to come out, and then actually it didn't come out as Perl.

blensor 5y ago

It's also slowly, becoming an alternative for VR development. They even had hand tracking on the Oculus Quest before Unity and UE

extraduder_ire 5y ago
> They even had hand tracking on the Oculus Quest before Unity and UE facebook is a large financial contributor to the godot project. I think they do some dev work too. I get the impression they really want more VR games to exist, and work well on their device, no matter how they get there.
- blensor 5y ago
  Yeah, FB/Oculus has quite the interest in Godot. But at the moment there is no official Quest game made with Godot yet AFAIK. So far we made it into AppLab with VRWorkout, but the store is a completely different story