I've been playing around with Godot for the past few months and as someone new to gamedev, it's been a really good experience. Wrapping my head around some gamedev-specific concepts has been tough, but that would be true regardless of the tooling.

Spend some time learning blender too, you’d be surprised at how much overlap in concepts there are. Texture mapping, models, camera, positioning, it’s all the same.

Funny you say that - my recent forays into blender have started bearing fruit and I'm sure it's because of what I learned in Godot. Previous attempts were not successful at all.

It's all a feedback loop...

Crazy things can be done once you learn it though. It's just math underneath. You don't need to know the math per se but understand what's going on under the hood, what is "world coordinates" vs "local coordinates" vs "device normal coordinates". What is a material, a texture, a light source (how many can I use at once in a single pass?), what is a pass?, what is culling, what is a face, index, weight, or bone? All 3d programs, whether it's 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, Unity, Unreal, Three.js, all share a pretty similar concept of these things. Some abstract it further into just a buffer (vulkan, metal, wgpu) that you can do with as you please on the gpu side.

I had some fun just the other day making earth (again) in three.js (https://gabereiser.github.io/earth) with physically accurate shaders. Once you learn, it's actually really fun.

And yet, it's not that good (yet).

Can you be more specific? Your two comments on this post are essentially "Godot is not good."

I just want to balance the conversation, someone can say how good it is without reason, why not the opposite?

I would love to hear how godot is better than Unity other than editor speed and being open source.