Godot... But Prettier
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2024
- When Godot was first released it wasn't exactly the belle of the ball. It has come a long way, and in this video we take a look at how the UI has evolved from Godot 1.1 to Godot 4.2. We then briefly compare the UI to the Unity and Unreal game engine. Then to finish things off we look at how to make things even nicer (in my opinion at least) using a custom theme from Passivestar, as well as adding Unreal Engine dock like functionality using the Asset Drawer addon.
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Blender UI?)))
You link to AssetDrawer while 11:22 I'm wondering where's the Godot version of the SunTemple 🤣
"the interface that only mother could love" 💀💀
"which even she would agree that her child is a bit ugly"
@@justlimeguy kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Funny because even that UI looks miles better than older unreal screens
Blender pre-2.8: "I was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual!"
@@barretxiii27 Blender 7.3(a) :- "What the F* am I looking at? Is that a game engine?"
Thanks for showing how to use my theme! ♥
thank you so much for this theme
Just wait till I show you how to use your blender Addon!
@@gamefromscratch 👀👀👀
As a viewer of gamesfromscratch, I thank you for making a theme that not just it's mother would love ❤
Your theme?
I mean the dark one was the best!
Godot must hire you, I don't think they would sadly.
I don't use Godot as I had before. But the theme on the video is much more good to have fun developing with.
As someone who started with Godot 4, the first version was a jump scare
I quite liked the versions before Godot 1 though. I find them quite cute. :)
And you still didn't see the very first versions of the editor before it was even godot.
@@gokudomatic really i didn't know there were older versions than that!!
@@skaruts Oh, in terms of cuteness, yeah it's definitely cute
as someone who always peeking Godot 3 and start to get serious on 4
godot 2 is cute and godot 1 actually looks hideous somehow despite 2 and 1 is not much changed
Bro, you've just fixed my problem of not feeling comfortable using godot that i had for more than 3 years.
The new theme and asset bar are huge improvement. Thank-you. I wish more engines would prioritize UI theming, as we spend a lot of time looking at the app.
Asset bar will be in Godot 4.3
@@wiktorwektor123 true, be it taken from the positive feedback they saw on my posts or coincidence. Once 4.3 eventually releases I'll just be left with adding the shortcut. I added the horizontal split, then in the next update they included it. Again, could be coincidence or they saw the feedback and decided to add it.
what I wish that they imlement something like a chatGPT search. "chatgpt find me all possible settings on turning or changing the oppacity of this window" or "chatgpt find me all possible settings to change color of the grass".
If u have Firefox browser it's settings has a search function and acts like similar to that, except it's keyword based as oppose to talking to it like a human.
@@wiktorwektor123 Wait really? Can you link the Github issue for that? I've been using Godot 4.3 and never noticed an hidable FileSystem panel. Or are you refering to something else?
I find the Godot default Dark blue quite warming in contrast to unity's gray/unreal's black which looks like taken out from 1990 (I am only talking about the color, not the design).
when I think about the 90's I think of white theme, like, blender 2.0, not really dark themes...
Tbh, I can't imagine working with a horizontal FileSystem docker. It feels way too crammed and involves way too much scrolling for my taste. I usually even have the FS docker on its own column, so I can see a lot of folders and files on the screen at once and even then I still have to scroll a lot when the projects grow.
Same with having the node tree and properties combined on the right. I work as an engineer usually and use Autodesk Revit, This is also the default there and its horrible you always need to scroll so much. Its way better to sacrifice a bit of real estate on screen to have it all visible. If you need more model view, just buy a higher dpi display
Thank you, that's exactly what I was thinking! The horizontal file manager wastes so much space and due to its inconsistent width across different monitors, I never quite know in what column my file will be. Godot's vertical list based approach is so much clearer, cleaner and space efficient.
Same I disagree with pretty much all the choices in this video. If you want more screen real estate for the editor pane there’s a keyboard shortcut to make it full screen.
That file system dock is for people used to other mechanics. I don't really have room for anything that inflated, but can see possible value in assets existing in disappearing drawer-style areas.
I use a lot of panes in their own window on a second monitor including the code editor..
blud just flexed his pc by opening Three of them at same time. 💀
That’s not even hard to do lmao how bad is your pc
It's just Godot, flex with UE5 haha
@@moshmoshpitpit to be fair, he had Unity and UE5 open aswell as 3 different Godot versions.
Godot would hardly be noticeable, but I agree that having the other 2 open would take up a significant amount of resources. I have no Unity experience, but Unreal Engine can be a hog. It's good to have extra RAM (32gb or higher).
@@not_ever You are right, sorry... limited context in my comment. I meant to the original commenting person, "opening three Godot's isn't anything worth mentioning"
glad im not the only one who doesnt really like the godot blue. the minimal theme is great, def need to try it out
Wow this theme actually looks good
I prefer the default look
Godot’s UI is honestly pretty flawless. It’s one of the first things people find appealing about the engine.
Is it? I think it's terrible. One of the things I dislike the most about the whole project to be honest. I'm with Mike and prefer Unreal, it's way more professional looking and the Godot logo is weird, too. Actually when I first saw the logo I thought it was a game engine for kids.
@@ghostradiogames I like the logo cuz it makes me think of retro games but ngl it is pretty kiddy.
I hated Unreal’s UI, so dated looking and more like a “modding engine” than professional software, maybe it’s better now since I tried it
There are some spacing issues here and there. For example, the hierarchy is unclear in the transform section of the inspector.
Not me I hated it and this theme just made Godot a whole lot better.
@@panampaceI felt that way about Unreal 4’s interface. Very dated. But after the UI update with UE5, it’s significantly less dated and more modern looking. Just a bit overwhelming with menus and properties
I like the way that godot is already
I really missed the possibility to theme the editor when I was using Unity basically daily for like 2 years. Sometimes it'd be just nice to switch out a color theme and make it a bit more enjoyable. I'm really happy that this is possible in Godot.
Yes, I see why you like that theme and plugin. It's indeed more appealing to the eyes.
Just change blue color to yellow/orange/Green/Red. It looks so good. You can change the editor color easily.
It's what I usually do. Just dark (#262523) + orange (#ff7700), 0.3 contrast, tweak the text size and I'm done. I'm too lazy to care about themes. :)
@@skaruts My Editor Accent Color is f79c00, base color is 1f2d34 and contrast is 0.3. It is really beautiful. :D
Purple. :)
Indeed it take 2 sec to change it kinda funny that his main complain from godot's UI is about this. Even funnier since it's a channel that exist to learn game engine and showing them.
I didn't think godot could look this good. Huge props for suggesting the asset drawer plugin, absolutely brilliant
Ama switch to godot since brackeys is back for godot
Dont wait for content creators to switch to something you enjoy! With that said, I am very excited for Brackeys switching to Godot. Definitely good sign for Godot.
@@ShiloBuff actually i was wishing for him to teach godot since i cant find someone good enoguh tho when he teaches its a diff story!!!
@@skubed007 GDQuest also has a good godot resources
sadly that one still yet to give 4.x tutorials
@@overthr0w138 actually I ws using unity and c# but after the drama (and ig unity is bloated according to me ) I switched to rust I was looking for learning Godot I did started but rust js seemed more of a choice what I ment from orignal post was that I would learn godot cause idk why but only brackeys seems the one who reaches in a amazing manner
yup agree switched to unreal sucked for a few months I love it but to each their own Godot could be fun too @ShiloBuff
I *feel* like Godot's UI is kinda large where it's unnecessary and really uncomfortably tiny where you need larger icons or buttons or whatever. Wish they had modern Blender look. The old Blender was light-gray plastic look and feel and i hated it so much i didn't use Blender. But i do use it since they changed the UI.
"Like Maya brought out the QWERTY keys ... everybody should adobt that"
*Blender stares intensely from the other side of the room
From an aesthetics point of view I would consider Godot functional looking and getting better. I also kinda like unreal the best, even though I would ALWAYS prefer a responsive UI over a pretty one. And Unreal on lower end hardware can be very unresponsive. Even their shop / Epic launcher alone. Ugh.
I always consider actual usability, flow, accessibility and consistency the most important thing of an application.
I'm no expert but I've heard that Blender has a toggle to use "industry standard keys" as they call it. don't quote me on that tho
@@jusstyno there is. Problem is that it you already used Blender for some time you would have to relearn every shortcut and nearly all tutorials are geared towards standard keyboard layout.
@@jusstyno That is the issue, most tutorials give you „normal“ (it’s not normal) keybinds and then you wonder what you need to do. To this day I hate the middle mouse button usage rather than alt + lmb.
Tbh Godot's starting to need an UI revamping sort of what blender 2.8 did
I'm not a programmer but even I don't want to take on the task that's subjective. Unlike programming a feature say makes the software run faster/smoother, everyone sees that and appreciates that, but UI is very personal and subjective, idk who wants to take on that task.
The best I would do is make a theme manager with import and export theme options like Zbrush, and the subjective part will just fall to the user or community.
@@MangaGamified Godot's way of customizing UI is already quite good. You can make themes really different to the base to suit your likes. However, stuff like animated dropdowns, selection wheels, property tabs, all of that can improve an UI a lot and I feel like most people wouldn't say they don't like them, cause that's basically improving on usability. That's what blender 2.8 did.
Of course I don't got any idea of c++ UI programing either, so I wouldn't even dare to try on making it xD
Hard disagree. Godot’s ui is excellent as is. I wouldn’t mind some revamping to the 3d scene editor but that’s it.
I'd prefer the developers to make something like Unity DOTS for C#, so we could make a massive open-world multiplayer game like V Rising with it
@@containedhurricane you can take a look at using flecs, though right now there isn't anything to support it in editor (self promo but I'm working on it)
I'll still prefer godot theme. It feels like cozy .
Same brother...
Its just that you got used to it. This is so much more modern and easy to the eyes imo
@@NachitenRemix And people prefer unreal and unity because they "got used to it".
@@hipflipped No because it looks better.
i prefer godot 2 schemes! but yeah maybe because i like purple and its variant
but also i mighjt turn the background a little bit darker or less saturated too wich making it closer to how google's material you UI color works
I actually like the slate blue, but a neutral grey is probably better for not influencing the aesthetics of the project you're working on.
This.
Thank you sir, I downloaded Godot yesterday and I usually use Unreal but wanted to make a lighter project. I randomly stumbled upon your video and it basically sets up godot to the UE layout which I just love. With this I'm off to a good start !
The nice, clean, comfortable look of the current 4.0 interface is perfect. They've done a great job tweaking it each iteration.
I usually just change the default colors and thats all i need. but the theme is actually really great
Marvellous! I love this interface, Thank you for showing us this way of making godot prettier 😁
This is great , definitely something I will use. I was planning on making something to this effect , the moment I opened up the Godot theme my head just exploded at the bulk. Godot really needs to rework it's theme engine working with it is such a headache far from being user or programmer friendly.
I got the theme and asset drawer, looks nice. I like having more space more my game/coding panel. I didnt use his colors though, I already had my preferred colors set up. :) Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoy the plugin
bottom system file was added in godot 4.3
Yes, they have slowly been adding my plugin into the engine natively be it coincidence or as a result of them seeing the positive feedback on my social media posts. I created the horizontal split in this plugin, then they added it. I added the ability to put the files at the bottom, now they are adding it. Maybe one day they will add the shortcut key too lol
@@GlitchedCode that is great. 😮
I came from BGE (the engine inside older versions of blender) and the biggest thing I missed in godot is the possibility to add, remove and change the tabs. As an example, I used to let 2 tabs on right, with scene objects and the properties, while the main part of the screen was filled with the 3D view and at the bottom the scripting tab. Everything was easy to access easy, if I want more focus (ou more space for text) in one tab, a shortcut would make it fullscreen, and if I was doing things like animation, was just a matter of changing the bottom tab to the animation editor. It was hard to get used to not move everything whenever nedded
super good video, saved for future reference when i start Godot learning
Unreal's Ui looks te best, but I disagree on bleu not being okay. Contrary, blue is often used in composition for backgrounds, since the sky is bleu. And lakes or sea, ocean, very often are background. There is some sane logic behind the choice of blue. Blue can also be use to express distance, especially in landscapes.
Yeah I agreed with the UE UI is the best looking UI
Yes, they took care of color of their brand so that it looks great!
Epic uses UE5 too, so they like to make it good for both us, and them.
Now that I am satisfied
Thanks for the heads up. I agree with everything in this video and you just got me a new godot theme.
Great theme! I usually switch to the grey theme but I’ll definitely use this
Wow looks so nice with the modificatons!
Oh my god asset drawer is so nice thank you for telling us!
Glad you like it!
all the UIs are good enough and relatively similar in practice to me. they could all be improved a lot in terms of ux and organization, but the colors are the least of my concerns
The way you had your Godot set up by the end reminds me a lot of Cinema 4D
Is there a video compilation out there, of Godot games going from the first version to now?
i really like your final setup.
Unity have always aesthetic between interface of Windows XP and old school iMac and only few years ago finally got a dark mode, nobody ever talk about any fancy editor themes
Thank your for the video , really helped me out
Godot reminds me of all the scratch versions lol. I've been around since scratch 1 up to 3 and Godot 1-4 has just as amazing a change omg
Great video! The UI was always my biggest reason for not getting engaged. I see myself using it more now.
I only work in Godot, but I really like the way UE4 looks and the way the interface elements are placed in Unity, although those corners in Unity will cut your eye.
I tried your suggestion right away. I really liked how the interface shrunk down decently. I remember in the Godot community discussing how the engine has an exessive use of outlines and some elements have well, a lot of extra lines that just take up interface space.
I also noticed how the square corners of all of Godot's buttons and fields have been smoothed out, and I really like that. All modern apps have been without square buttons for a long time now, and this change has modernised Godot quite a bit :D
I've been wanting to try a similar layout for a long time, but have had a hard time with the file system. The file system asset was the cherry on the cake, it really did get better with it.
Thanks for the recommendation!
I like the default theme. The asset drawer though sounds great though.
I totally agree about the CTRL+Space opening the asset browser from unreal engine, every single engine show copy that, after using that and going to a different engine it feels like such a chore to find the asset browser
It perplexes me why anyone would want to look at a file system in any layout other than a vertical tree.
For images, I get the grid folder contents on a split view, but I feel the same about navigating folders.
Your layout is very blender esq and I honestly quite like that. Might adopt it myself
The default layout is great for ultrawide monitors as you can have a standard 16:9 viewport with room on either side for the tabs, but I do like this layout for a standard monitor.
didn't know about ctrl+space, thanks!
As someone working for my company as Tools Programmer I need to check if our editor has Ctrl+Space show/hide functionality (not this key combination as it can be rebinded, but overall functionality). If it doesn't I guess it's time to get inspired ;)
As somebody coming over from UE, this was a godsend - thank you so much for showing the possibilities!
It's funny how UE4 was one of the roughest, and it went in UE5 to looking the best
Thanks for the tip, it looks awesome!
Certainly, I'd be happy to assist with that. As for the matter of switching between engines, I can see how that would make sense. While it doesn't personally bother me, I understand that it can be a concern when it comes to rendering on Windows. It is quite remarkable that there is competition in this area. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Remember when you needed a paid Unity licence to use the dark theme? Had to pay them to make your eyes not bleed. People used to patch the editor binary to unlock it without a licence. Glad it's not a thing anymore, it was so stupid.
Did you noticed Mike that now the 3.5 have dead links when we are looking those projects for that versions now are longer and actually I wanna take one in particular was turned base game do you know any repository for this?? BTW ITS BEEN WONDERFUL YEARS WITH MIKE WORKALHOLIC🎉🎉🎉. Your hair is turning grey and myself getting bald😅😅
Today tools aesthetics to me means zero, what I care more about is power, stability and usability. Tools are not games or art they don't need to be pretty they need to work well.
I have been bitten hard by caring to much about tool aesthetics before, I've seen really bad game engines, with tools with pretty GUI's but those tools were very unstable and under powered.
I have also used engines with tools that looked like Windows XP apps but that were rock solid and very powerful.
The best is a mix of the two but that in my experience is hard to come by.
Only thing that I care within a tool to have a dark theme, rest what is more important is UX, lack of weirdness and performance. Maybe unreal in UI in this version is quite nice, but UX is same craziness that was in Unreal since forever. In short, nothing is matter except dark theme.
Looks really Great 👍
It's nice? But the grey is depressing, needs at least a subtle hint of color to it
Thanks for making this video♥
I like the blue theme, but supported custom themes with fonts, and theme maker that include fonts would be awesome for Godot. Also not always open in full screen, and open in the last state you had it in would go awesome.
unreal had a nice UI back when there weren't so many features
brutal on godot 1 XD butt thanks Ididn't even know I could move things around your setup looks cleaner I'm going to try it THANKS!
Oh.. thats odd to hear. I personally thought Godots default UI was actually quite visually appealing and intuitive in 4.0
But as you said, eye of the beholder I guess :P
Godot doesn't need to be pretty, but more performant. It'd better have something like Unity DOTS for C#, so we could make a massive open-world multiplayer game like V Rising with it
I love Godot's color scheme. Adding ANY color, even a grayish-blue is still miles better than the standard grayscale colors of other engines and tools.
It just feels more like a fun program for making fun games, and not a serious, adult, sleek corporate tool.
The thumbnail had me assuming you were going to talk about Prettier, a code formatter having gotten GD Script support but themes are interesting too. 😅
thats so useful, tysm!
I actually like the blue hue, so let's disagree on that point
Great video. Thanks!
You don't have to close Editor Settings to apply the theme, it just takes a few seconds lol
Yep, this is what I've been looking for in Godot and I didn't even know it
Whatever happened to the Pixel Maker MV revisit video?
My guess with the blue is that is a somewhat in-between dark and light color, so dark mode devs are not being blinded and light mode devs dont find it too dark to complain. Blue is also a really good color for making something both a bit more approachable and appealing.
Honestly, that first version looks charming, like a childs doodle
Why does Godot bot look like Peter Parker from Spider-Man 3. Good video as always. I prefer having my docks (4x) on the left-side since I read left to right and it's easier to drag assets to the GDscript/view window being a right-handie.
What are the specifications of your laptop?
Instead of using 252525, use 242424 and make it look just like Visual Studio, I also set "Custom Display Scale" to .8 and it looks awesome now
Between not having a 4k monitor and assets being a vertical list I can't stand the file system on the bottom but I desperately need more space. One not very elegant solution is to just make it a floating window and alt tab when needed.
We are in need of being able to open-close windows with keybinds. O ther than change from scene to scripts we currently can't do that AFAIK.
In a world of ultra wide, the extra screen real estate is not in the top or bottom - it's to the left and right.
In my humble opinion: Default Godot is really great and perfectly fine to use. It's good if people like this, but it's such a minimal change that I don't think productivity would really change.
TIL that there's a built-in Solarized Dark theme; that's all I need 👍, thanks.
Its not a phase mom.
I don't get the hate behind the blue theme, it's not distracting to me but it's more comforting.
i already have different theme customizations based on my preferences:
i like the default colors and i thought only the font needed to be a bit more playful.
so i just changed the font, i rounded the corners more, and i changed some contrast settings for better visibility.
but otherwise it's the default theme.
if you invert the contrast I think it looks closer to Unreal 5. Where info boxes become darker instead of lighter. So -.2 instead of .2 for example.
I feel like pam from the office. "Same thing"
I got started in Game dev using Godot 3 and have 4, and when I tried Unity out I thought that it was ugly and outdated looking in comparison to Godot.
I hate the 3d navigation in Unity it seems wonky and weird to me, and if you have multiple assets/prefabs that look similar but have subtle differences you can't tell them apart at a glance in the folder because the Titles are cut-off halfway, then imagine a big game project with hundreds of these and you have to hover over them and look down in the corner to see the full title! I hope you can change that in the preferences.
Yeah I think Godot's UI is much cleaner, don't mind the blueish gray, if you can change the color yourself that's cool too.
The blue makes it stand out and matches the godot logo which will never change either if you believe Juan 😃
Appreciate the share but both of them seem fairly equivalent to me in appeal to me personally ; however I did not know themes were available for the UI so great news in any case.
After staring at Godot engine for many hours with default colors hurt my eyes. I found that when I changed the contrast and changed the colors to very dark green and dark green in general, I can code for many hours without eye strain at all. Dark Green is very majestic and easy on the eyes for me. And it is much nicer than the one shown on this video too, I wish I can show it here.
Happy that you find a theme you enjoy. Unreal has the worst UI/UX IMO, but I'm a programmer that learned using Unity. Godot default is good enough for me, but now I know how to customize the theme when I want.
Thanks for bringing the attention to this. I agree with your "ranking" of UX aesthetics between the 3. UE looks the best, followed by Godot and Unity desperately needs a face lift.
I think Godot 4 with just the gray theme looks the best.