The Godot 4 recreation engine simply received a brand new skill, the addition of Film Maker mode. Not likely meant to exchange OBS and related options for recording gameplay footage, Film Maker is as a substitute for non-realtime recording at a hard and fast body price, supreme for creating prime quality gameplay trailers or machinima fashion films.
Particulars from the GitHub pull request:
What’s it?
- Permits working the sport in “film author” mode.
- It ensures solely steady framerate, so your run could be saved steady and with correct sound (which is unattainable in case your CPU/GPU can’t maintain doing this in real-time).
- If disabling vsync, it may possibly save films sooner than the sport is run, however if you wish to management the interplay it may possibly get tough.
- Implements a easy, default MJPEG author (avi) and PNG+WAV (for lossless and transparency). Extra customized encoders (resembling ffmpeg) could be carried out as GDExtensions by extending and registering a brand new MovieWriter.
- Applied the flexibility to compress Picture as jpg (wanted for this).
This new options has two principal use instances, which have excessive demand:
- Saving recreation movies in prime quality and making certain the body price is fully steady, at all times.
- Utilizing Godot as a instrument to make films and animations (which is right in order for you interplay, or creating them procedurally. No different software program is as helpful for this).
Notice: This function IS NOT for capturing real-time footage. Use one thing like OBS, SimpleScreenRecorder or FRAPS to attain 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 recreation runs close to real-time when capturing, you possibly can nonetheless use this function (however it can lack audible sound playback, as sound is saved on to the video file).
You may see the brand new Godot 4 Film Maker performance in motion within the video under. The demo scene used within the video is on the market right here within the Godot 4 demo initiatives on GitHub.
