How to start. Absolute noob /beginner needs help.

zayca

Hello,

I am kinda old guy (37) but I started 3D learning 3 yrs ago with a lot of fun. Now I want to push my brain into Godot. I never programmed, I have rather no knowledge about programming. Every single tutorial on YT is kinda focused towards programmers. Code is everywhere, without deep explanation. Godot docs are for programmers as well...so I just have a simple question for You:

How to start? how to start understanding this Godot code? Any good ideas, paths? It is much easier for me to understand graphics stuff ( i was photographer for some time, i know some photo editing software like photosop etc, I know some 3D software as well-blender) but the writing any code is....just a black whole for me. Any suggestions?

Thx in advance

Ace_Dragon

For the person who has trouble with writing code, Godot offers a visual scripting option. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/scripting/visual_script/index.html

You can also make complex visual shaders without scripting using the Visual Shader Editor (which is node based).

Megalomaniak

Generally speaking you will want to understand the general concepts before you start learning a specific language.

There are some language agnostic books and resources you could try looking up, for starters, here's one: http://www.gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html

edit: might also be worth checking out r/learnprogramming: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/61oly8/new_read_me_first/

NeoD

I suggest to learn a programming language who has many tutorials for total beginners. Python should be a good one. No need to be a computer scientist, once you grab the basics go to Godot !

canvasbushi

Like everything else, READ A BOOK. there are tons(ok more like only 2) of them out there for Godot 3. Even after reading 2 godot books, you'll still find that the engine is not properly document and there are tons of hidden gotchas about the engine. Only way to really understand the engine after the books is to follow the GitHub where the people who create these hidden gotchas reside.

gaby424

Hello :) I was almost like you 6 months ago. The path I followed was via learning python (I didn`t no about godot)

1.I started with this python free tutorial for the basics (you can stop after object oriented part (oop)). you don`t need more for godot. https://www.sololearn.com/ you can also install the app so you learn anytime

2.then the best oop mechanics explained here (in python)

3.try a small game only in python to see interaction between objects (pong game). This was the movie where my mind made the click :)

4.read the godot docs to see GDscript explained (so you can see the small differences between GDscript and python) https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_basics.html#doc-gdscript

then some godot tutorials like this (this was more efficient for my mind)

6.Finally, start doing small games in godot and ask this guys here to help you when you are stack :)