Moving from Unity to Godot: an in-depth handbook to Godot for Unity users

Are you a Unity developer looking to switch to the Godot engine quickly? If so, this no-nonsense book is your guide to mastering the most popular open-source game engine. Godot is a completely free game engine for creating high-quality 2D and 3D games that can be launched on multiple platforms. You'll see how to transition seamlessly from Unity to Godot, getting up and running quickly and effectively, using practical case studies. In addition to building functional worlds from meshes and physical interactions, you'll work with reusable assets, such as textures. The book then moves on to lighting and rendering 2D and 3D scenes with baked and real-time lighting. You'll also work with navigation and path-finding for NPCs, and see how to create save-game states with JSON. With Moving from Unity to Godot youll be ready to create amazing 2D and 3D games that will supercharge your business. You will: Explore the similarities and differences between Unity and Godot Maximize the benefits from Unity and Godot Create believable game world and characters with Godot Master the unique aspects of C# coding in Godot.

Includes index.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introducing Godot: Why Migrate? -- Getting and Installing Godot -- Why Use Godot? -- Godot Is Free -- Godot Is Open Source -- Godot Is Evolving -- Godot Is Supported -- Godot Is About Games and Experiences -- Godot and C# -- Getting Started with C# in Godot -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Godot Fundamentals -- Godot Projects -- Editor Interface -- Creating and Editing Scenes -- Scenes and Nodes -- Adding a Cube -- Navigation and Transformation -- Zoom -- Pan -- Frame and Orbit

First-Person Controls -- Selecting, Moving, Rotating, and Scaling Nodes -- Local and World Space Transforms -- Scene vs. Game Mode -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Scripting with C# in Godot: Common Tasks -- NET and Build Problems with C# -- Building a Hello World Program -- Working with Nodes -- Iterating Through Child Nodes -- Finding Nodes by Name -- Finding Nodes by Path -- Godot Groups vs. Unity Tags -- Accessing Variables in the Inspector -- Variables As Properties -- GetComponent? -- NodePaths and Node References -- Set an Object's Position -- Make an Object Move Smoothly

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