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Played this for about an hour on release day. Pros: charming character and environment design, beautiful modelling, animation and sound. A good demo of what Bl

Played this for about an hour on release day. Pros: charming character and environment design, beautiful modelling, animation and sound. A good demo of what Blender and a talented team can make. It's worth downloading to experience. Cons: on macOS I saw slow startup (it beachballs for seconds before showing the opening screen), which seems to be a consistent thing for Godot macOS exports. Also choppy performance (stuttering movement in heavy forest scenes, dropped frames). At present it serves as a good promo for Blender but less so for 3D in Godot.

Xss3 1y ago
I dont think godot should really care about mac performance issues tbh.
- fuomag9 1y ago
  They should, if they aim for multiplatform support
- bowsamic 1y ago
  Why not?
  - Xss3 1y ago
    Gaming on mac is a chicken and egg problem and there is no reason for Godot to try to solve it when none of the big players, including apple themselves, are interested.
    - whoisyc 1y ago
      I doubt the typical Godot Engine user is in that segment of the game industry but the big players in microtransaction ridden “gaming” are definitely very interested.
TimByte 1y ago
Still, as a proof-of-concept and Blender showcase, it's super impressive
- modernerd 1y ago
  Agreed, didn't mean to take away from that. I subscribe to the blog and have learned a lot from the Blender Studio team to see their process: https://studio.blender.org/projects/dogwalk/production-logs/ https://studio.blender.org/projects/dogwalk/production-logs/
bowsamic 1y ago
> Cons: on macOS I saw slow startup (it beachballs for seconds before showing the opening screen) This is usually related to code signing and notarization
- modernerd 1y ago
  Interesting, thanks, you might be right: xcrun stapler validate /path/to/DogWalk.app …shows: DogWalk.app does not have a ticket stapled to it (But spctl --assess --type exec --verbose /path/to/DogWalk.app shows it's notarized as expected.) Perhaps the beachball is Gatekeeper reaching out to Apple's servers to verify notarization? It seems a little faster on subsequent launches but still beachballs for ~2 seconds.

Xss3 1y ago

I dont think godot should really care about mac performance issues tbh.

fuomag9 1y ago
They should, if they aim for multiplatform support
bowsamic 1y ago
Why not?
- Xss3 1y ago
  Gaming on mac is a chicken and egg problem and there is no reason for Godot to try to solve it when none of the big players, including apple themselves, are interested.
  - whoisyc 1y ago
    I doubt the typical Godot Engine user is in that segment of the game industry but the big players in microtransaction ridden “gaming” are definitely very interested.

TimByte 1y ago

Still, as a proof-of-concept and Blender showcase, it's super impressive

modernerd 1y ago
Agreed, didn't mean to take away from that. I subscribe to the blog and have learned a lot from the Blender Studio team to see their process: https://studio.blender.org/projects/dogwalk/production-logs/ https://studio.blender.org/projects/dogwalk/production-logs/

bowsamic 1y ago

> Cons: on macOS I saw slow startup (it beachballs for seconds before showing the opening screen) This is usually related to code signing and notarization

modernerd 1y ago
Interesting, thanks, you might be right: xcrun stapler validate /path/to/DogWalk.app …shows: DogWalk.app does not have a ticket stapled to it (But spctl --assess --type exec --verbose /path/to/DogWalk.app shows it's notarized as expected.) Perhaps the beachball is Gatekeeper reaching out to Apple's servers to verify notarization? It seems a little faster on subsequent launches but still beachballs for ~2 seconds.