Godot: Add Create movies feature like UE4.

[sersoong]

proposal:
UE4's sequencer can create movies and render output as a video file.
Maybe godot can add this feature too.
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[Ace-Dragon]

I think there's a lot of stuff to develop in terms of Godot as a game engine yet.

Moving the engine into film (when we already have Blender) would only siphon development away from what most people are using it for, and the film direction isn't necessarily popular among Unity users either (with some, according to blog comments, feeling shafted as they use the engine to make games).

[willnationsdev]

Yeah. I wouldn't say this is something that could never be added, but I think the priority for the devs is going to be stuff that enhances Godot as a game engine specifically.

[sersoong]

Have you ever considered the animation of the transition levels？
Then store it to disk.

[sersoong]

The real-time CG animation like Final Fantasy or The Witcher 3.
How did you make the shot?
Make it in blender?
:p

[willnationsdev]

real-time animation is generally done using tiered sets of AnimationPlayers and AnimationTreePlayers. A (bad) example would be: one AnimationPlayer that moves a limb on a character, another for animating sets of limbs (by animating calls to the previous AnimationPlayer's animations), and then a 3rd one for animating sets of characters for entire levels. You generally wanna use AnimationTreePlayer for more advanced things though since it can blend animations for you automatically, plus other cool stuff.

Furthermore, a "director" mode is a planned feature for the 3.1 release (as stated on the roadmap) to simplify the creation of CG, real-time animated performances. Note that the roadmap's timeline is off.

I'm sure many people would like to have better animation systems, but what you specifically requested here is the ability to output animated content as a video file. Depending on how easy that is to implement with existing features, that may actually end up in 3.1, especially if someone motivated (like you?) implements the functionality on their own and merges it in.

[willnationsdev]

In fact, it's quite simple already to create a video out of animated gameplay content (including cinematic animations in Godot) using something as simple as OBS that can track and record the video output of another program already.

[blurymind]

There is a lot of gamedev features that godot is missing. I would very much prefer if developer effort is focused on those. A sequencer could be added to the timeline some day, but its far from a point where it should be a priority. We still miss a number of key animation features that Unity and Unreal have had for a long time.

[Calinou]

For those interested, I made a proof of concept: Calinou/godot-video-rendering-demo

There are many things that should be improved for it to be more usable (better usability, faster frame saving), but it's a start.

[Calinou]

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