Game dev 3D

Learning how to do 3D games.

Import pipeline

It seems there is no consensus on how to export a 3D file to be used in a game engine, inclined to think that GLTF 2.0 is the best option.

All material/shader languages are slightly different so materials are the hardest part to bring from a 3D software in to a game engine.

One would think that as Blender and Godot are both open source they would use a standard for basic materials but it doesn't seem to be the case. In general I think it's easier to learn how to do materials in Blender or Unity and then figuring out how to port them to Godot.

• FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later
• Why we should all support glTF 2.0 as THE standard asset exchange format for game engines

Shaders / Materials

Ambient occlussion

• The Pros and Cons of Ambient Occlusion and How to Use It Effectively

General resources

• The book of shaders
• Smoothstep: The most useful function

Toon

Blender

• Tutorial: Procedural hatching and manga shaders for EEVEE Blender
• Toon shader
• Outline and toon shading (esp)

Triplanar shaders for terrain

Unity

• Minions Art triplanar shader
• Normal Mapping for a Triplanar Shader
• Triplanar Mapping

Godot

• Jotson Minions Art port to Godot
• Arcande Hive Games Videos