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by schaefer 1211 days ago
Does anyone recommend a good resource for diving into Godot 4.0 as a complete beginner?

I'm talking introductory materials and an overview of the bigger ideas, not (yet) the nuanced details.

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If you just want the basics they have a tutorial on site[0], this covers 2d and 3d. The 4.0 Tutorial scene is still pretty barren on youtube, and some of the existing ones may be invalid because of changes that happened over the alphas and betas.

GDQuest is working on updating his content to 4.0 but even with the half off discount that stuff may be a bit pricey if you aren't sure you want to dive into the Godot world (his full compilation of Tutorials was like $379 before discount and individual ones are like $150 before discount).

[0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/

Maybe it's too basic, but GD Quest is working on "Learn GDScript from zero" which runs in a browser.

https://github.com/GDQuest/learn-gdscript

I've been working exclusively with 4.0, but most of tutorials built for 3.5 are pretty easy to carry over. I like HeartBeast's videos, as well as Brando's.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrHQNOyU1q6BFEfkNq2CYMA [2] https://www.youtube.com/@BrannoDev