Godot 4 and Blender: Setup and Importing // Tutorial

Complete step by step walkthrough for connecting Blender 3+ and Godot 4. Use your Blender files directly the Godot Engine.

- Import your .blend files directly
- Make changes in Blender to your meshes that will automatically import into the Godot Engine
- Import Blender materials into Godot
- Use import suffixes

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SUFFIXES
Remove nodes (-noimp)
Create collisions (-col, -convcol, -colonly, -convcolonly)¶
Create navigation (-navmesh)
Create a VehicleBody (-vehicle)
Create a VehicleWheel (-wheel)
Rigid Body (-rigid)
Animation loop (-loop, -cycle)

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Resources:

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Chapters:
0:00 How To Connect Blender and Godot 4
2:00 Import .blend File Into Godot 4
2:55 Importing Changes From Blender
3:40 Using Editable Children in Godot
4:19 Working With Blender Objects & Import Suffixes
6:09 Modifiers and Shading
7:04 Importing Materials
8:29 Importing Material Textures

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[stayathomedev]

First of a series of step by step tutorials for Godot 4. Like if the video was helpful, subscribe for more Godot 4 tutorials in the future!

[IcarusGravitas]

I'm a 50 year old physics teacher and this is the most helpful, clear, useful tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you! I'm having a blast living in both Godot and Blender worlds simultaneously!!!

[JamieBainer]

This was perfect. No fluff, straight to the point, and you covered questions I had along the way. Cheers!

[Outdoors]

Really one of the clearest tutorials on the subject matter out there.

[GaryParkin]

Thank you so much. This workflow is a game changer. It just works. No fuss. And I can prototype in Blender and see it in Godot. Just perfect.
Subscribed and looking forward to more.
Can it import animations too? Yes... For those who are confused to how, you drag the blend file (cube) into the node tree just like you are placing it into the scene, then you'll see it in the view port. Next right click it and choose Editable Children. Now you can see the Animation Player. This is so cool.
At first glance, it appears to import a lot of key frames. Maybe a setting I missed.

[Nvvvvvvvvvvvvvm]

Dude i had no idea that something like this is even possible and i love it

[mostafabalboul]

I love that the progression of the tutorial flows so perfectly in line with the questions that arose. As I was contemplating a solution for getting rid of the lighting from the blend file or adding collisions, the explanation came up shortly after. Nice job!

[millerbyte]

Thank you! This is very helpful. I love how seamless this integration is.

[brazen]

stood up at the materials reveal, this changes everything

[BadPlayerZero]

Very helpful, exactly what I needed right now! Been looking for days on how to get the image textures working and yesterday settled on exporting to fbl. Great tutorial!

[Olks]

Just wow. These two really work well together!

[mikatomik]

You can just put the textures in your godot project before you assign them to a material in blender, then you don’t have to do the whole pack/unpack thing.

Also don’t forget blender disables back face culling by default, so you have to enable it in each material either in blender or in godot.

[wilimelano]

never seen such a good intro. 0 bs, jump right into it.

[gregorywatine]

I just discovered that, in the french version of Godot 4.0, in the project settings at the beginning, the name "Blender" was translated, so i saw "mélangeur" and didn't understood why i didn't have the same option 😂 and before that "advanced settings" which is a fonctionality and not a name wasn't translated.
Thank you for this video. It's easy to understand and helpfull at the same time :)

[CCLawhon]

BLESS you for this. Not just the main stuff but the little tips like suffixes. People refer to these in forums but I never understood what the deal was. I wish more tutorial people were like you!

[aneckdope]

this is a gamechanger, thank you very much for covering this!

[hernanarce]

Could you make a video explaining how to apply collisions to 3d models imported from blender in godot, for example an animated character with collisions in each part of the body?

[steve]

Bro, please make a "Godot 4 3d games for complete beginners" playlist and series. I might learn godot before unity if I had more tutorials and resources. Thanks for sharing this and making godot tutorials

[kiyasuihito]

Thanks for this. This workflow is going to be so nice

[jabberdoggy]

Really helpful! Thanks for making this available.