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This Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited

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Last updated: 24 May 2023 at 1:07 pm UTC

There's a lot to be interested and excited about when it comes to Godot Engine, the free and open source game engine and now Unity game devs may want to keep watch. Shared on Twitter, which seems to have raised the eyebrows of and excited many developers, is a new project that aims to let you import Unity projects into Godot. 

Pictured above is the rather large POLYGON Fantasy Kingdom Unity environment, which is used as one of the examples on the GitHub page of the project. Currently it seems to have been tested working on macOS and Windows, so hopefully anyone doing Linux will be willing to give it a run. This could be a really interesting boost for Godot Engine and FOSS development, if the project continues to go well.

According to the project it so far has all this implemented:

Components:

  • GameObject
  • MeshFilter
  • MeshRenderer
  • SkinnedMeshRenderer
  • Transform
  • Stripped Transform
  • Light
  • Camera

Importers:

  • DefaultImporter
  • ModelImporter
  • NativeFormatImporter
  • PrefabImporter
  • TextureImporter
  • ShaderImporter
  • AudioImporter

The project is under the MIT license.

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16 comments

Pengling 24 May 2023
Quoting: GuestDo you know any games using Godot?
One that I've been playing lately is the Early Access Star Fox-style rail-shooter, [Ex-Zodiac](https://godotengine.org/showcase/ex-zodiac/).

Quoting: GuestWould be interested to have a look at them. Official site doesn't seem to mention any games using it, but maybe I missed it.
You might want their [Showcase](https://godotengine.org/showcase/) page. :smile:
Liam Dawe 24 May 2023
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Last edited by Liam Dawe on 24 May 2023 at 1:20 pm UTC
elmapul 24 May 2023
combine that with this, and we might have something really interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6zLAxOuZbk
elmapul 24 May 2023
"ShaderImporter"
impressive o.o
elmapul 24 May 2023
Quoting: GuestDo you know any games using Godot? Would be interested to have a look at them. Official site doesn't seem to mention any games using it, but maybe I missed it.

edit: Actually - found a list of last year games mentioned here: https://youtu.be/watch?v=UAS_pUTFA7o

Brotato being one of of them - hugely successful game. Seems Godot is already pretty significant player.
TailQuest Defense
Ex-Zodiac
Pingo Adventure
ProtoCorgi
Primal Light
Gourdlets
Project Heartbeat
Circle of kerzoven
Fist of the forgotten
Brotato
Dome Keeper
Blastronaut
Beat Invaders
Lumencraft
Cassette Beasts
and of course:
The Interactive Adventures of DogMendonça and PizzaBoy

you're welcome.

there is also Sonic Colors Ultimate wich combined their own code written in C with an custom built of godot that they used internally and called it something else in the relase, but people dumping the files and trying to reverse then to mod and stuff quickly realized it was made on godot.

Last edited by elmapul on 24 May 2023 at 2:34 pm UTC
elmapul 24 May 2023
Quoting: GuestHmm so again they violated the license, sad but *the norm* for corporations - and it's going to continue as FOSS has no legal chance to enforce itself because reasons .
nope, that dont violate godot licence at all!
its MIT not GPL!
its just a shame they didnt give credit to it, it would be a massive boost for its popularity
Calinou 24 May 2023
Hmm so again they violated the license, sad but *the norm* for corporations - and it's going to continue as FOSS has no legal chance to enforce itself because reasons .
Blind Squirrel Studios patched the game after launch to make it compliant with Godot's license :)

Last edited by Calinou on 24 May 2023 at 3:22 pm UTC
elmapul 24 May 2023
You are free to use Godot Engine, for any purpose
You can study how Godot Engine works and change it
You can distribute unmodified and changed versions of Godot Engine, even commercially and under a different license (including proprietary)

The only restriction to that third freedom is that you need to distribute the copyright notice and license statement of Godot Engine whenever you redistribute it. So your derivative product may have a different license, but should still state in its documentation that it derives from the MIT licensed Godot Engine (see below).
Quoting: GuestSo IANAL but I think they broke the license according to what you said (i'm not familiar with the original story at all)
IANAL but can follow plain text.
o.O wow now i'm a bit surprised i guess read it licence a LOOONG time ago, so i couldnt remember that part
Klaas 24 May 2023
Very interesting. I wonder if anyone has tried it with DagerfallUnity?
Purple Library Guy 24 May 2023
This seems pretty cool.
ElectricPrism 24 May 2023
Quoting: Pengling
Quoting: GuestDo you know any games using Godot?
One that I've been playing lately is the Early Access Star Fox-style rail-shooter, [Ex-Zodiac](https://godotengine.org/showcase/ex-zodiac/).
Thanks, didn't know this was a thing bought a copy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/
Pengling 24 May 2023
Quoting: ElectricPrismThanks, didn't know this was a thing bought a copy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/
I hope you enjoy it! :grin: I originally found out about it here on GOL, funnily enough!

I love what's available so far, and I'm not the sort to support Early Access stuff otherwise. Even if it somehow goes no further, it's proven to be exactly what I wanted, and as I posted recently it's easily my favourite out of all of the Star Fox spiritual-successors that I've tried. :grin:
Maath 24 May 2023
I wonder, whatever happened to the Ogre engine?
Phlebiac 25 May 2023
Quoting: MaathI wonder, whatever happened to the Ogre engine?
Still getting regular releases:
https://www.ogre3d.org/news

But apparently not terribly popular for public projects; their survey results seem to indicate it gets used by people for internal projects.
ssj17vegeta 25 May 2023
Download quickly, before a DMCA comes knocking at their door. That's some quality work there.

As for made-with-Godot games, I have two in my Steam library, and both are Linux native !

- [Precipice](https://store.steampowered.com/app/951670/Precipice/), a fun little game about the cold war
- [Don't shit on my XXXXing roof](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2143950/Dont_Shit_On_My__Roof/) : a Vampire Survivors clone (still in early access).
quot 26 May 2023
Quoting: GuestDo you know any games using Godot? Would be interested to have a look at them. Official site doesn't seem to mention any games using it, but maybe I missed it.
SteamDB tracks game engines used. You can see all the Godot games that it detects here: https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Godot/

That only works if the game is exported as an unbundled package, though, so there are going to be more on Steam that SteamBD just can't detect.
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