Hi #godot enjoyers! I am new to the engine, but have 8+ years of experience in Unreal and Unity as a 3D artist. There's some things I'd like to figure out how to do in Godot, but which I can't find documentation about - if you're an artist who knows the engine well, would love some help! (thread) - ThreadSky

carriesloane.bsky.social • 10 days ago

Hi #godot enjoyers! I am new to the engine, but have 8+ years of experience in Unreal and Unity as a 3D artist.

There's some things I'd like to figure out how to do in Godot, but which I can't find documentation about - if you're an artist who knows the engine well, would love some help! (thread)

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haffisnatten.bsky.social•10 days ago

I have also been trying to figure out the Godot 3D art workflow for some time now, coming from the Unreal side, the assets pipeline in Godot is not so straight forward, unfortunately. Often feel like there are several necessary steps, even when I just want to import and use a simple asset.

haffisnatten.bsky.social•10 days ago

Unnecessary***

carriesloane.bsky.social•10 days ago

Thanks for this reply, it’s helpful to hear it’s not just me - I was feeling kind of silly that something this basic seems difficult haha

haffisnatten.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, can’t really find any good “hey, are you an artist switching to godot?” type videos or resources. But a lot of stuff for code devs. I think I will just have to experiment and figure out my own workflow based on each projects scope etc. 😅

carriesloane.bsky.social•10 days ago

1. What file format should I be using for asset import? I have some specific things I want an asset import to do, outlined in next posts. This is a big question, and I've read through #godot 's documentation on it here https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/assets_pipeline/importing_3d_scenes/available_formats.html

carriesloane.bsky.social•10 days ago

I need to be able to import vertex color information, skinning information, and blendshapes.

When I tried a .blend file, the blendshapes didn't work, but I see there's a deeply nested comment here about disabling modifiers on the Blender end so I will try that https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/16xbesu/blender_shape_keys_on_blend_import/?rdt=40951

carriesloane.bsky.social•10 days ago

I've been going with glTF/.glb files since that's what's recommended on their documentation, but I still am not sure what the workflow should be.

The documentation emphasizes that you should import scenes, so I've been importing scenes as glTF files (i.e. all my nature-related props)

carriesloane.bsky.social•10 days ago

When I import a scene as a glTF, I then need to click the "Save to File" option for every mesh asset, which saves it as a .res or resource file - then I need to navigate to the correct folder and re-type the name of the asset

carriesloane.bsky.social•10 days ago

^ Is there a way to have the name already filled out here? Doing this process for scene files with 10+ assets gets really tedious.

sidedcore.bsky.social•10 days ago

You can create an importscript which can handle the renaming and saving location for this sort of stuff, i found one online but cant remember where or who from. Open the file in advanced import, set the import script, then reimport and they should all appear in a sub folder

https://pastecode.io/s/24gr1te1

carriesloane.bsky.social•10 days ago

Another reason I've been avoiding importing each asset as its own glTF file is that when you drag them into a scene as a glTF, there's no direct option to update the material in the scene.

This is pretty untenable for environment art.

calinou1.bsky.social•10 days ago

It should be straightforward to make this EditorFileDialog prefilled with the mesh name.

That said, if you want to save _all_ meshes to external files,
something like https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/7858 but for meshes may be more suited.

samecomputer.bsky.social•10 days ago

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igorsgames.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'm not an artist, but blend shapes do work with GLTF, as we used them in one Godot project. An annoying thing though that blend shapes parameters are by default applied not per every game object, but per model. There is a flag somewhere in the inspector to change this behavior to per instance...

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