Godot Engine 4.0 Continues Working Towards Vulkan Support

[kaprikawn]

Pathfinding is essential on actual 3D games, not a minor functionality waah waaah xD

I didn't say minor functionality, I made no judgement on how critical it is at all. But it's open source software, with development being done in the open on Github. This means :

• If you want it so bad, you can develop it yourself and submit a PR
• If you want it so bad (part 2), donate to the project and try and influence it that way. They engage with their Patreons for priorities
• Anybody can work on whatever they want anytime they want
• Everyone's got an opinion on what needs to be done next and resources are limited
• Nobody working on Godot owes you anything

[andrei_me]

Michael also does not mention that this engine is full of terrible decisions. This is a good start https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/23998

At the least someone is working on it even if it's just to show how it can be improved

[tildearrow]

Any cool open source games written with this engine?

Why do you always ask for too much?
If the game has a clearly set major goal (ending) then it's best for it to be clo

[uid313]

Why do you always ask for too much?
If the game has a clearly set major goal (ending) then it's best for it to be clo

Because I am not an avid gamer, so I don't really buy games and such, so therefor it would be nice with a game that is free and open source since I won't be spending much time with it anyway.

But I don't want to play some old, crappy game. I kind of want to see nice, modern things. Like I got Mesa with OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan support, so I would like to see a game use that.

[tildearrow]

Because I am not an avid gamer, so I don't really buy games and such, so therefor it would be nice with a game that is free and open source since I won't be spending much time with it anyway.

Please not that proprietary does not necessarily imply "commercial". There are free proprietary games besides commercial ones.

But I don't want to play some old, crappy game. I kind of want to see nice, modern things. Like I got Mesa with OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan support, so I would like to see a game use that.

You know making a good game requires a lot of effort, right? And most of this effort doesn't come for free. Most artists prefer to be paid than to volunteer, which is hard to do under the open-source model.

[uid313]

Please not that proprietary does not necessarily imply "commercial". There are free proprietary games besides commercial ones.

Yes, I could maybe try a free proprietary one, but I would prefer an open source one.

You know making a good game requires a lot of effort, right? And most of this effort doesn't come for free. Most artists prefer to be paid than to volunteer, which is hard to do under the open-source model.

Yes, and I found some nice open source games like War§ow, Nexuiz, Tesseract, Cube 2: Sauerbraten, etc. But they are old now. I would really like to see some modern, open source OpenGL 4+ or Vulkan game.

[tildearrow]

Yes, I could maybe try a free proprietary one, but I would prefer an open source one.

Is there any reason why besides ensuring the game's not gonna track you? (and even if it does, you can mitigate it)

Yes, and I found some nice open source games like War§ow, Nexuiz, Tesseract, Cube 2: Sauerbraten, etc. But they are old now. I would really like to see some modern, open source OpenGL 4+ or Vulkan game.

You forgot about Xonotic. A decent open-source game with an unmatched fast pace.

Please note new isn't always better (or visibly better (yeah, people have achieved OpenGL 4-levels of visual quality with just 2.0 (think of the demoscene))).

Also, just to tell you, the open-source model only works well for games that don't have a timeline. For those that do, it actually ruins the fun as it lets you easily see the whole plot without even playing.

[uid313]

Is there any reason why besides ensuring the game's not gonna track you? (and even if it does, you can mitigate it)

Well, I prefer free, open source software. I try to avoid proprietary software. I do have Spotify though.
I just try to like the open source philosophy, the free software movement, and try to stay away from proprietary.

You forgot about Xonotic. A decent open-source game with an unmatched fast pace.

Please note new isn't always better (or visibly better (yeah, people have achieved OpenGL 4-levels of visual quality with just 2.0 (think of the demoscene))).

Also, just to tell you, the open-source model only works well for games that don't have a timeline. For those that do, it actually ruins the fun as it lets you easily see the whole plot without even playing.

Yeah, I forgot about Xonotic. Well anyh game lets you easily see the plot by reading a walk-through or watching gameplay on YouTube. So I don't buy that argument. I don't know what you mean by easily seeing the whole plot, you mean by looking at the assets and reading the source code?

[DGMurdockIII]

This will eventually be the best open source game engine

[tildearrow]

Well, I prefer free, open source software. I try to avoid proprietary software. I do have Spotify though.
I just try to like the open source philosophy, the free software movement, and try to stay away from proprietary.

If that's the case, then why do you use Spotify?

Yeah, I forgot about Xonotic. Well anyh game lets you easily see the plot by reading a walk-through or watching gameplay on YouTube. So I don't buy that argument. I don't know what you mean by easily seeing the whole plot, you mean by looking at the assets and reading the source code?

Exactly. Walkthrough-free, gameplay-video-free. You just read the source code, et voilà, the whole game's been spoiled.