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Every time reimporting messes everything up I deeply regret trying to use godot over unreal in a 3d project 😿... Too deep in to change now, but never again...

this is like a video essay except 60 times shorter i like it

if you are open to change i think i had some spare change in my pocket. and some lint. lol

GODOT GODS! FIX THESE ISSUES AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

I also had big problems with gltf when i tried to import kenny's asset of an apple and animate it inside the godot. It was a mistake. Then i took the asset and animated it in blender and then exported to godot. now animation didn't looped properly (while in blender it's perfect).

Isn’t gltf meant for big scenes, not single models?

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"gltf is a good file format" as someone who's had the misfortune of writing a parser I can't help but strongly disagree, it's a putrid convoluted mess dreamt up by the utterly deranged, it's just the _least worst_ open format. even a simple singular pos + uv mesh can be represented in at least 3 ways, making the most intuitive workflow to make individual parsers for each representation (which can coexist within the same file) then convert them into a common representation before sending the data to the GPU.

The first thing I do after importing a GLTF file into a Godot project folder is to save it as a Godot scene file and deleting the GLTF file. But yeah, if you're making significant changes to your model post-import, you're going to have to make an import checklist or something for whenever you want to update your model. Also, good dog content. That's always welcome.

As far as FBX, I would say make sure to be using Godot 4.3 before doing that. There's a new FBX importer there. I tried to import some pre-made assets for a game jam, terrible experience pre-4.3. In 4.3 they came in pretty much perfectly in comparison. But yes, generally agreed, I'm just getting started in the world of 3d, I feel like figuring out the pipeline from blender -> Godot is a tough one partially due to this. I don't find the importer very intuitive and I feel like I can't really quite get things setup the way I want. I haven't had to deal with much animation wise yet for my current project. But I have seem more complex 3d import scenes....

no you are right things in Godot don't work the way you think they do and is honestly the most frustrating bit when you are trying to use Godot or learn how to do something that comes easy and naturally in other game engines.

godot and not gedough?

I just right click and make it local to scene, then when I want to change the model I just manually replace it

I'm only at 1:04 but just felt like mentioning: You don't *need* bones to animate a model, but it is the easier and more modern option. If you really wanted to animate like it's 1998, you could export every frame of animation to its own obj and write some additional scripts to handle the extra data. Maybe even combining them into a custom file format based on obj with support for animation frames, and then importing this file with an import plugin. Your options for actually showing the animations would be to either 1) update the mesh vertices every frame (slow) 2) pass the frame information into a custom shader which reads it from a sampler2d and displaces the model vertices appropriately.

HANKK HANKKK CLICK THE EDITABLE CHILDREN HANK *vigorously slams head against the windshield*

That dog is so cute omfg

You should probably look into animation libraries, bone groups and animation retargeting. Separating animations from your armature imports is a great help.

Came for the curios, stayed for the funny, left with cute dogs videos and pictures. Can`t get better :D

FINALLY, someone who's speaking up about this in zoomer video form! My gripe is that the stock imported tree is stupid with redundant nodes, and I want to separate the mesh nodes and the skeleton nodes into other parts of the tree into which i import them. also, animations are uneditable, so i cant add onto it in the same animplayer node. even when i save the animations to a file, it wont let me! and i use a custom material, so i have to re add it to each mesh everytime i reimport! fortunately, this all can be automated with postimportscript. i can even modify a different scene entirely and just save that

get the blender addon, .blend file imports like gltf but i havent had an issue with reimporting an inherited scene.

Dude the editing on this is crazy you need way more subs

Good Luck Tave Fun

I had the same trouble, now I use the blender file pipeline and it’s really not that bad. Just have blender linked up to Godot and put your .blend files in your project, now every time you save the file it updates. Also works ok with inherited scenes

I think 4.3 is supposed to solve a lot of the import problems with 3D objects. But yeah, as it is now, it's no fun. I try to get around this by not inheriting the scene but rather copying the stuff out from it and rebuild it in a new scene. It also has its downsides, of course. I've yet to find a satisfying workflow.

I have never related to a video so much. I was working on a project and then move to UE5 from Godot. But I had to move back because the model would import with out his legs. So I move back because UE was a pain.

I am currently building a game in Godot and the artist on the team has all of the same complaints. I am the "resident Godot expert" on the team, and it's something I have a problem with too. You aren't crazy. It just sucks :( Such a same, because so much of the engine is nice and streamlined. Also cute dog.

I'm a Godot fan boy through and through but will admit that I've had some jankiness in my experience with the gltf pipeline as well. At least keeping the new inherited scenes requiring minimal alterations keeps the jank contained for the most part.

Nice dog :) I use check editable children and also sometime save the Animation out to disk - but most the time I can just use editable children and Animation Tree - I can use BoneAttachment3D no issue. Good luck

My solution is to just to use blend file importing. Like have my blends in my project file with blender support enabled.

sry but more vids pls also nice vid free sub from me

You are not barred from using those features, just tick "editable children" on your imported node and it will work as a inherited scene without the reimporting pronlems

Hello! I do not intend to be stubborn and die on a hill by making this video, this was just to make aware some of the problems I was personally having and provide some entertainment for members of the Godot community! I am always open to change, and understand that the GLTF format and Godot will both grow in time, and I look forward to it. For those of you telling me to try FBX, I will definitely give it a go.

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have you tried fbx

love the editing style and presentation of this video. new sub :)

I recently stumbled upon an addon on a blender market place called Blender to Godot 4 pipeline. It looks really promising, it tackles many pain points when working with gltf in godot. Might be worth checking out

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that many people are working hard to improve this workflow. GLTF is still the "wild west" so to speak, it's a very new format, GLTF 2.0 came out in 2017. So everything is really new, both the format itself and Godot's implementation of it. Things will improve over the coming years and/or decades (decades for it to become as mature as other formats that have themselves been around for decades, FBX came out in 1996).

Nice editing~

This randomly popped up in my recommendeds. Chaotic and fun and I don't even use Godot lol. Keen to see more vids, keep it up!

Pretty much my experience too.

That is an adorable dog.

Hard can’t beat it

Hello! Im Came from gd when I saw this beautiful level. I have never had idea to make a stealth game in geometry dash! Most of this looking so simple but its looking really cool! Of course some of this is hard to make (I tried to make stealth level too after I saw your level)

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