Godot does not have to be ugly

[ac-arcana]

I'm impressed how pretty Godot can look, considering its reputation of being so indie and not looking nice. Obviously it is easier to make low poly assets as a lone dev, so I think this creates a part of the reputation. Though having said that, even low poly scenes can look great with some good lighting and shaders.

I'm working on a test scene for what will hopefully be a co-op survival horror game, something like STALKER.
I made this scene so far with Cyclops and Scene Object Brush.
I've even made the pallets, crates and barrels objects you can pick up and move around. Also you can open the doors on the shipping containers.

[Phazorknight]

Very nice! Really like the second screenshot.
How did you manage to get the sky bright but the inside of the warehouse so dark?
I always struggle with too bright interiors if there's a sun-like directional light in the scene.

Here was an old attempt of mine getting some unreal engine assets into Godot and using them with Cogito.

[ac-arcana]

It's all just settings with the WorldEnvironment. I think SDFGI being enabled probably made the biggest difference. I've got my Tonemap set to ACES, and turned on SSAO, SSIL, SDFGI, Glow, and Volumetric Fog (but I turned the density way down)

[ac-arcana]

Also those unreal assets look really good! If you got the lighting a bit better that would be a very nice looking scene! I'm wondering if You made it in Godot 3? Lighting got a lot of improvements in Godot 4.

[Phazorknight]

No, it's Godot 4, I just suck at setting up lighting in my scenes. 😅

Other than that, yeah, I was surprised that the materials carried over so well into Godot. I just wish UE had a batch exporting options for gltf/glb, the default batch export always switches to fbx. 😢

The new Unity gltf/glb exporter is also pretty good to get stuff into Godot.

[ac-arcana]

Then I think if you open up that scene again and on your WorldEnvironment just enable SDFGI the lighting will probably improve drastically with much darker shadows inside the building. Its performance heavy though.

[Phazorknight]

Found the Lumberyard Bistro scene set up with Godot 4 and wanted to see how it looks like with Cogito:
Looks pretty nice.

Cogito_Bistro_AAA.mp4

[ac-arcana]

Wow that looks awesome! I love seeing things like this! I have high hopes for Godot and 3D in the future, it keeps getting better.

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