The Godot 4 sport engine simply acquired a brand new means, the addition of Film Maker mode. Not likely meant to interchange OBS and related options for recording gameplay footage, Film Maker is as an alternative for non-realtime recording at a set body fee, best for creating top quality gameplay trailers or machinima model motion pictures.
Particulars from the GitHub pull request:
What’s it?
- Permits operating the sport in “film author” mode.
- It ensures completely steady framerate, so your run might be saved steady and with correct sound (which is inconceivable in case your CPU/GPU can’t maintain doing this in real-time).
- If disabling vsync, it may save motion pictures sooner than the sport is run, however if you wish to management the interplay it may get tough.
- Implements a easy, default MJPEG author (avi) and PNG+WAV (for lossless and transparency). Extra customized encoders (resembling ffmpeg) might be applied as GDExtensions by extending and registering a brand new MovieWriter.
- Applied the power to compress Picture as jpg (wanted for this).
This new options has two principal use instances, which have excessive demand:
- Saving sport movies in top quality and guaranteeing the body fee is utterly steady, at all times.
- Utilizing Godot as a instrument to make motion pictures and animations (which is good if you need interplay, or creating them procedurally. No different software program is as helpful for this).
Word: This characteristic IS NOT for capturing real-time footage. Use one thing like OBS, SimpleScreenRecorder or FRAPS to realize that, as they do a a lot better job at intercepting the compositor than Godot can in all probability do utilizing Vulkan or OpenGL natively. In case your sport runs close to real-time when capturing, you’ll be able to nonetheless use this characteristic (however it’s going to lack audible sound playback, as sound is saved on to the video file).
You possibly can see the brand new Godot 4 Film Maker performance in motion within the video under. The demo scene used within the video is obtainable right here within the Godot 4 demo initiatives on GitHub.
