Godot 4 3D Platformer Lesson #7: 3D Coin Model from Blender to Godot!

[@asherfont1527]

Thank you without these lessons i would have never learned blender and godot

[@WeirdBrainGoo]

If you find that the coin model looks like melted plastic after importing into Godot, even though it looks right in Blender, you should probably make sure to apply the Smooth by Angle modifier and then re-export the gltf file. Newer versions of Blender add a modifier when right-clicking and choosing Shade Auto Smooth. Older versions didn't do that.

[@lowbudgetdev]

dude i was getting mad bcs of this thank you a lot

[@WeirdBrainGoo]

@@lowbudgetdev Glad I could help. 😁

[@gamerfever21]

Thank you so much man

[@WeirdBrainGoo]

@@gamerfever21 You are very welcome! 😁

[@skeletongary2161]

The blender 4 disclaimer was perfect Calmed my anxiety and helped me focus on what is actually important A simple but important thing Thank you so much

[@HurricaneSA]

For anyone finding that holding Shift does not work when trying to uniformly scale the coin in Godot, you can press "T" to switch to local co-ordinates and it will then work. It took me a few minutes to figure out why it wasn't working so in case anyone else comes across this issue you'll know what to do. I can't wait for the next installment!

[@elijahmoore9414]

Thank you! I had just typed out a comment with this very concern but then figured I should read the others comments first.

[@jdoe27]

Thank you so much

[@Castlevaniac1]

From zero knowledge in Godot, from your tutorials alone I was able to add things to the tutorial project already, like smoothing the camera rotation to a constant speed and lerping the character rotation to make it look smooth as well. You do such a great job explaining, everything starts to fall into place for me!

[@Doctor_Paxmor]

I was going through this tutorial, and youtube served me a blender tutorial on how to make a leaf... I made the leaf and then realized it was in fact not Lesson #8: Make a Leaf... Now I have a leaf and am patiently awaiting the real Lesson #8.

[@apgamer4053]

wow got a better blender tutorial ina game dev tutorial than a blender specific tutorial GJ man

[@Snakemaster11235]

every single tutorial helped me so much with Godot/Gdscript so much and game design in general. TYSM!!! 🙏🙏🙏

[@PySnek]

I have a hole on one side of my dollar sign when I combine it with the coin and the coin looks dent in. Ok I found an easy workaround. You just have to select both, the coin and the dollar sign and press CTRL + J to combine them into one mesh.

[@jonass_-yd3ww]

I hope this comment gets pinned. Thank you so much for the tip

[@SailorUrgot]

I was having the same problem, thank you so much

[@aussiescorner3954]

The only issue I found with this method is it doesn't get rid of the internal geometry

[@aussiescorner3954]

A better way I just found is to go ahead with the merging and then go to edit mode, shift click on the edges on opposite sides of the hole and then hit F and it will fill the hole. Not my solution I found it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5zJp2ibmNWprNU

[@PySnek]

@@aussiescorner3954 thank you! yes, that's even better :)

[@MindsMouth]

Your videos are helpful for someone like me, who has no experience with game engines or coding, just barely started messing with blender. Thank you

[@BornCG]

Glad to help!

[@saeedserwan]

Thank you for the generous upload! I love following your tutorials. You're great at teaching!

[@zackb6312]

Thanks for sharing your hard work and experience with the community, and I'm excited to continue on this journey!

[@kanjirogaming]

Blender 4.2.0 now 😁 I started watching your Godot videos yesterday, and they're great, thank you for all this content ! As a gamer and very experimented PHP dev who messed a little with Blender in the past, realizing I'm learning how to actually create a 3D world and put a character in it to discover is amazing !

[@techrstudios]

Very good tutorial series. Please post next videos soon

[@timothyn4699]

haven't messed much with blender. Wow, there's a lot to it, but you do a good job of breaking down, and explaining why we use the tools we do. Good stuff! This could level up my 3d modelling for sure. Looking forward to getting this working later, and then experimenting with more objs

[@WeirdBrainGoo]

When it comes to learning game development we need more material like this, where you see the workflow on both the game engine side and the 3D modelling side. That's the scariest territory at least for me because so many things can go wrong somewhere along the path when creating the asset and exporting it in the 3D software and then importing it and using it in the game engine. Following along step by step like this makes it a lot less intimidating. :D

[@spac3ninja]

the man the myth the legend, BornCG has uploaded once again! Thanks for the great tutorials, they have really helped me switch to godot!

[@jsj0520]

12:05 something to help make centering the $ easier is if you scroll through the object data (the little green a tab he mentioned) there is a paragraph section where you can set the horizontal and vertical alignment to be center and middle instead of left and top! so now the anchor point of the text is directly in the middle of the $! EDIT: after downloading a custom font my $ was no longer center, So be aware that some fonts can still be off center! but of course, it does not matter if its perfectly aligned or not perfection isn't always the best thing to strive for, especially when you are learning!

[@konstryktor34]

Very good, pal. Please continue making videos

[@traumwelt1975]

you're an awesome teacher ^^ Thanks for the share of knowledge.

[@KTankerous]

Great work on these tutorials, extremely well done and useful! Thank you.👍✌

[@WiLDbEAsTGameSHere]

Happy new year to you 🎉 And thx for all the turtorials you have provided us so far

[@sumitevs]

fantabulous! whens the next part coming. One of the best tutorials i have seen.

[@BornCG]

Thanks! Shortly into February. My schedule opens up a bit after the end of this month, allowing me more time to edit.

[@alexanderstreng4265]

It made coin mesh into .res because it was the first option. You can force it to be .tres by typing the extension manually before reimporting. However, In this case I think it is fine that the file is .res since it’s a binary format and it is faster for a computer to read a binary file instead of text.

[@BornCG]

That makes sense! 😊

[@jbanimations8475]

Was a great tutorial! Can't wait for part 8! Thanks!!

[@PySnek]

"Shade Auto Smooth" is now called "Shade Smooth by Angle" on Blender 4.1

[@MadManTnT]

Amazing. I have waited for a long time for you to finish the series

[@bthurst495]

My game file got corrupted while trying to import the coin; gave it a day then tried to force godot to run the file it already made and it worked, just had to remove the coin and reimport it to fix it. Thanks for the tutorial, if not for you I probably would of just given up half-way through.

[@LtsVapor]

cant wait for the next video

[@departuream1440]

I highly recommend you add the edit from "future" you that you added to this video to the first video of the series where you mention blender 3.6, so as not to scare anyone off from the start.

[@BubblyBoar]

Thanks for the New Year present!

[@TheBigWhiskey]

Love it! Can't wait for the next video!

[@zegaroth9596]

i was previewing the video with my mouse and when i saw it was time for blender i said "nooooo" in my mind voice and then when i hovered over 1:19 the thumbnail was a big YES and it made me chuckle

[@zheniadozova234]

To center the dollar sign easily: Object > Set Origin > Origin to Geometry. Then just set X, Y and Z locations to 0.

[@Haneen_286]

great great lesson

[@newMania23]

just found this series yesterday. i have done a few godot tutorials and have learned a fair bit from them but this is hands down the best one ive come across so far. this needs to be on udemy so you can get paid for it. cant wait for the next episode. how often are you releasing them?

[@BornCG]

Thanks! ☺️ had a baby in the fall, so been a little occupied to release as steadily as I want. Will pick up in February-March I hope!!

[@newMania23]

All good mate. No rush, being a new dad is tough stuff. Thanks for your content, always loved your blender stuff. Can't wait for the next video ​@@BornCG

[@rawrpancakes]

(っ✧ω✧)っ ✨ So there I was, previewing the video with my trusty mouse, when suddenly-BAM! Blender time showed up, and my brain screamed "nooooOOoooo" in the most dramatic inner voice! 😂 But then... as I hovered over 1:19, the thumbnail hit me with a gigantic "YES" out of nowhere, and I couldn't help but chuckle like a goofball! 💖

[@sayris01]

thank you, you rock! Love the way you explain :)

[@hawkeyepeww]

I had a problem that the coin looked like a tank rolled over it after importing it to Godot via the gltf export. After an hour of redoing the steps in the tutorial i figured out that you can change some settings in the gltf dialog. I had to check the mesh/apply modifiers. (i did clicked apply in Blender, so i don't know why, but this worked). I am using blender version 4.2.0

[@exospectral6930]

Thanks, I had the same problem and this helped!

[@killerzillavolt2655]

I got the same problem. How did you fix it exactly?

[@WeirdBrainGoo]

@@killerzillavolt2655 The problem is that in newer versions of Blender, when right-clicking and selecting Shade Auto Smooth, it actually adds a "Smooth by Angle" modifier to your object. Which you will have to apply along with the boolean modifier before exporting, or your coin will look pretty messed up when importing to Godot. So just apply the Smooth by Angle modifier and export again. :)

[@rikovladimir8655]

Man that limited dissolve trick is awesome for optimization I used to use the decimate modifier

[@EnchantedWolf-ey3gc]

For anybody whose s stayed messed even after deleting one, there is a comment that fixed the issue for me and all you have to do is click the coin, shift to also select the s and the click ctrl + J. Hope that clears it up for some people.

[@IndyGibb]

If anyone made the coin in Blender and found that the shading was funny after merging the two meshes, try re-shading them. That fixed a weird issue for me.

[@ireneahlberg7491]

tx!

[@krokiet8393]

Thank you

[@dirkschiller1637]

It created a .res because it's default if you enter no file extension. You can use .tres file extension by typing it directly.

[@hermandarr6274]

Can't wait for the next one....Happy New Year Colin.

[@blandroid2015]

3d modeling is something I've never done before your course, and you somehow made blender approachable. Does your blender course work with Blender 4.2?

[@BornCG]

All the modelling / basics will be virtually the same, though they’ve changed a few things about materials and rendering.. so yes, largely. Thanks for your comment! 😊

[@3dblendermodeler]

Will there be new videos? A month ago was the last one, will you continue or will it remain incomplete?

[@BornCG]

Being a new dad and a full time teacher IRL isn’t allowing me to get these edited nearly as quick as I’d like, but rest assured that all 26 parts are already recorded, and the next part is coming relatively soon!

[@QMulative]

@@BornCG I don't suppose I can offer some help? I've got a lot of free time, and a little bit of blender video editor experience. Pay me a little for that time and I'll gladly use it to assemble your vids! I could probably send one to you per day, or one per week at the slowest. There need to be more of these up to date Blender-With-Godot-4 tutorials out here on youtube. I'll probably want to follow along to get my own games made, too.

[@KarKazul]

so I decided to be a lazy bastard and just use the default font, and when I was all done and ready with the limited dissolve, boom a big hole on both sides of the dollar signs (I decided to do 1 for each side so it looked correctly because apparently I'm not lazy for that?), and so I decided to invest a few hours of clicking and trying different things so I could fill that face in, until I got it, gotta love my favorite way of learning are the problems I encounter by being lazy, anyway great guide, much appreciate the love you put into it.

[@MindsMouth]

I simply 'joined ' both meshes, worked fine without all the extra steps

[@WeirdBrainGoo]

You forgot to choose "Union" in the Boolean modifier. It's set to "Difference" by default, which will carve out the dollar sign from your coin instead. That could be useful if you're ever making a jack'o'lantern. :P

[@Toxicrival27]

Hey Borncg, I am a begginer to godot and am using godot 4. I am currenty watching the mini series of the 2d platformer. In the 5 part of the series you talk about the tilemaps, I don't really know what to do cause you use the version 3.2. So can you make a seperate turtorial for how to use the tilemap in godot 4 pls

[@Gorbo1698]

For some reason when I import the model into the mesh everything around the $ is white and opaque. If I click on the model and view on godot independently everything is fine.

[@nanardeurlambda]

1:18 wll, we are inventing A wheel, after all.

[@Zero0189]

Thanks you for the lesson, My only problem is with blender. I think in blender 4.0 They changed the shortcut selecting edge loops.

[@bigmoneybusiness34]

same

[@yogurtbanana2124]

i guess ive done something wrong. the mesh i created in blender is invisible when i play the scene and cannot be picked up. i had to revert to the plain cylinder mesh to see it. i thought i followed the instructions... guess ill have to re-watch 😅

[@eats2gaming]

Can you show me how to make the ColisionShape the same size?

[@Whatisthishuhhmm]

Great tutorial, but I can't get the resource to not disappear as soon as I relaunch godot. And if I add the model as a separate node in the coin scene, it gets an error in the Level scene and crashes if I try to launch it.

[@MrLavaIcongd]

I don't know why but your coin look like more car tire becouse of its size. But anyway thanks for tutorial. Only thing i need is just make block slide by pressing space, i just making car game so that's why i need slide. Anyway thanks for tutorial. I like it.

[@DingDong-bw7mq]

I'm trying to reproduce 08:45 in 4.2.3 LTS, my tool works only on the X axis and can't be reversed without undo(im drawing a pipeline with it). What's happening?

[@bettyjowestern1098]

Trying to get the coin from blender into GODOT and it is not working?? Saved to the assets and models as you did and the right file extension, it still doesnt work?? Could you give me some help please?? Thanks so much!

[@XKacperixGaming]

When i open blender i get this prompt New file General, 2d animation, Sculpting, VFX, Video Editing. Which one do i choose?

[@chasewilltin8567]

He reminds me of wonder over yonder

[@e_marcos7071]

I'm going through all this steps and whenever I export the Blender file to .glb and load it in Godot it looks like the surface around the $ sign is bent, as if the "metal" was hammered. The dollar sign looks great though. Blender 4.2.2 and Godot 4.3 versions, does anybody know how to fix it? I've already created 3 different versions of the coin and can't find the error 💀💀💀

[@teepat]

same

[@nikolannn]

Love the tutorials and thanks for your hard work. But time between videos of 1 month and more, kinda really sux. I think I read somewhere going to be 26 videos, that is 2 years for all, by that time anyone who has started following your course will have given up on it. Maybe publish rough unedited footage in separate playlist for people that have coding knowledge and would like to finish this project

[@TrimutiusToo]

I am in so much of a future, that display fonts don't exist anymore on google fonts? (and you would think, only 9 months)

[@BornCG]

They do! There’s just a couple of different places on the Google fonts sidebar to choose / filter font families… as of a couple of days ago display fonts was still an option.

[@TrimutiusToo]

@@BornCG I don't know... Wasn't able to find it... I couldn't even find that filters category under which display filter should be... Didn't really hinder me too much, but they changed filters from what you shown even in the update it seems...

[@georgenagy52]

when i press the coin from 3d view or from sense pane my hole Godot closed what can i do??

[@RuairiOTuathail]

Blender 4 was resetting material Base Color and Metallic setting after saving or exporting to tlGF format. I had to unclick "Use Nodes" under Materials -> Surface. In your video it is ticked. Can anyone explain why or if I'm doing something wrong? And will this have any negative impact in Blender? Thanks!

[@mrderin219]

W video

[@Primal_Real]

I imported it and the coin didn't turn out correctly so I had to use the flat one and not round as the round one broke so yeah I'm not sure what happened as I did the steps the exact same something broke. Like the coins texture looked like if you crumpled up a plastic bag but it the coin geometry and everything was fine so it looked weird and I fixed it my making it flat and not smooth and anything I import that is smooth just does not work unless I make it flat.

[@WeirdBrainGoo]

I had the same problem. It's because in newer versions of Blender, when you right-click and choose Shade Auto Smooth, it actually adds a modifier called Smooth by Angle. So before exporting you'll actually have to apply that modifier, along with the boolean modifier for it to look right in Godot. If you click the little monitor icon in the Smooth by Angle modifier to see what it looks like without it, you'll see it look just as weird inside Blender. :P

[@danilokoljensic8748]

Blender crashes when i open material tab, on 4.2(LTS), every time i open it, regarding what i do, like it's some kind of bug, anyone have that problem, should i download earlier versions?

[@danilokoljensic8748]

I changed render engine to workbench and it doesn't crash, but can you explain why does it crash and what different engines do. Thanks!

[@hypermonk33y56]

erm i think you forgot to mentioned before importing blender files, need to change editor settings to have a path to blender

[@BornCG]

Which is one reason we’re not importing Blender files, instead we’re using GLTF files.

[@thummapudigiridhar5450]

Plz make video on how to make 3d animation for kids rhymes in blender ❤❤

[@aligt500-r4q]

mr how to make object can kill player pls and how make enemy

[@umidradjabov7710]

How do car selection menu in godot?

[@ImSim_Cook]

When I go to import the asset, it comes in ultra wide, even though the proportions are all correct in blender and in the scene preview in godot... do you have any ideas as to why that is?

[@samtimmins7970]

like a cylinder? mine does that too!

[@MrBlun7y]

Did you skip the apply scale step in blender?

[@GokuZenkai]

Bro, when I export or create any 3D model to Godot, it appears black, do you know a way to solve it?

[@sergeantsapient]

He mentioned towards the end that the model may appear dark because it's reflecting gray objects around it.

[@freeyourmind6242]

is it only 7 lessons?

[@BornCG]

It’s in progress. Lesson #8 lands in mere hours! 👍

[@theultimatewolf2295]

him: blender 4 came out me still using 3.5

[@BornCG]

There’s next to no difference for basic modelling, texturing, and exporting thankfully 👍

[@Zenva]

Thanks for making these videos! How can we contact you to discuss sponsorship opportunities? We'd like to get the word out for our new Godot courses.

[@wild2715]

A lot of thanks 🥲