How to Make a Retro Style 3D FPS in the Godot Game Engine

Name: How to Make a Retro Style 3D FPS in the Godot Game Engine
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Learn how to make an old school fast-paced first person shooter in the Godot game engine

Created byNarayana Walters

Last updated 6/2024

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What you'll learn

How to implement a fast paced old school first person character controller in Godot
How to fully implement a machine gun, shotgun, sword, and rocket launcher in Godot
How to implement basic artificial intelligence in Godot
How to use pathfinding in Godot
How to implement basic GUI in Godot
How to use particle effects in Godot

Course content

8 sections • 68 lectures • 12h 3m total length

Making The Environment9:10
Player Movement22:17
Player Health10:46
Weapon Manager15:16
Importing Weapon Models8:06
Import 3D weapon models into Godot, create materials, and configure albedo and roughness, then re-import textures while troubleshooting issues like textures not loading and editor caching.
Weapon Animations12:34
Bullet Hit Effects11:55
Create a bullet hit effect in a new 3D Godot scene using GPU particles for sparks and smoke, plus a decal for bullet holes.
Hit Scan Bullets15:54
Weapon Script12:11
Muzzle Flashes5:43
Making The Shotgun4:57
Making The Machete17:34
Making the Rocket Launcher27:17
Adding Crosshairs2:21
Create a crosshairs texture rect named crosshair in Godot and center it. Toggle visibility, fix has method bug, and adjust stretch mode for crosshair size in fullscreen.
Animating the Weapon Manager5:35
Importing Monster Meshes and Setting Up Materials3:41
Setting Up Enemy Hitboxes21:41
Setting Up Enemy States and Dying6:00
Build basic enemy states in Godot for a retro style 3d fps: idle, attack, and dead, with corresponding animations, collision handling, and health-driven death transitions.
Enemy Vision and Hearing16:59
Enemy Movement and Facing12:51
Enemy Melee Attacks14:32
Implement a melee attack system for a bird monster with can see target. Add a defined attack range and facing logic, then trigger via animation and attack emitter.
Ranged Enemy and Fireball Projectile11:28
Blood Effects15:47
Gibbing17:52
Learn how to implement gibbing in a retro style 3D fps using Godot: trigger gib on damage via the health manager, spawn gib chunks and blood particles.
Making Health, Weapon, Ammo Pickups20:35
Discover how to implement health, weapon, and ammo pickups in a retro 3D fps with Godot, including pickup scenes, collision, spin animation, and a pickup manager.
Player Death Screen10:05
Player Stats Display9:44
Player Health Effects3:30
Pickup History Display9:43
Adding Sound Effects To Everything18:54
Learn to implement sound effects in Godot for a retro style 3d fps: create an sfx bus, attach audio players, and add weapon, pickup, and monster sounds with variations.
Exporting Your Project2:32

Importing the Models2:30
Import and organize weapon models in Godot by creating a weapons folder, importing 3D models and textures, adjusting shaders, and preparing gun assets for a retro style 3D FPS.
Making the Weapon Animations18:59
Making the Bullet Hit Effect7:46
Making Hitscan bullets16:00
Learn to implement hitscan bullets in Godot by creating a weapon script, preloading hit effects, and using a ray intersection to detect hits, apply damage, and spawn oriented impact effects.
Making the Weapon Script18:04
Making Muzzle Flashes4:18
Making the Shotgun4:25
Create a modular shotgun system in Godot by adding bullet emitters via a spatial node, tuning rotations for spread, wiring muzzle flash, and setting attack rate and damage.
Making the Machete7:24
Making Explosions12:31
Making Rockets14:52
Making the Rocket Launcher5:06
Create a rocket launcher in Godot by instantiating rockets, setting damage and transforms, and adding a muzzle flash. Connect the fired signal and tweak the explosion to stop stray particles.
Adding Crosshairs2:05
Add crosshair textures to each weapon, center them via the inspector, organize them in a cross-hairs folder, name each texture, and toggle visibility in the weapon script.
Animating the Weapon Manager5:38

Importing Meshes and Setting Up Materials2:06
Import and organize enemy meshes in a new enemies folder, configure textures with filtering disabled and enable back-face culling, then verify looping animations (names end with _loop) import in Godot.
Setting Up Hitboxes16:10
Setting Up State Machine and Enemy Health5:26
Setting Up Enemy Senses13:07
Setting up Enemy Movement12:48
Set up monster chase by facing the player, using a navigation node and simple path to the next node, then move with the character mover while ignoring rotation.
Setting up Enemy Melee Attacks15:08
Set up enemy melee attacks in Godot by defining attack range and rate, wiring a timer, enabling attack states, aiming at the player, and triggering damage via an animation event.
Making a Fireball Projectile11:03
Design a fireball projectile in Godot by converting a rocket into a fireball, adding a sprite 3D smoke trail, animation, and a one-shot particle burst, plus a fireball spawner.
Making the Range Enemy9:28
Making Blood Sprays7:24
Making Gibs13:41
Learn to create gib effects in Godot, configure blood spray particles, implement gravity and bounce with velocity retention, and use a pre-spawned gib pool.

Requirements

Some familiarity with programming

Description

In this course you'll learn how to make an old school fast paced 3D FPS in the Godot Game Engine.

I'll cover how to set up an environment and lighting, make player movement, create four guns: a machete, shotgun, machine gun, and rocket launcher, make two enemies, one melee and one range, with pathfinding and basic ai, create particle effects for explosions and smoke trails, create animations for weapons, create ammo, health, and weapon pickups, and set up a basic hud for the player.

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Who this course is for:

Beginner Game Developers

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Course content

Making An FPS In Godot 431 lectures • 6hr 18min

Creating the Environment (Godot 3)3 lectures • 13min

Creating the Player Character (Godot 3)3 lectures • 1hr 1min

Making the Weapons (Godot 3)13 lectures • 2hr

Creating the Enemies (Godot 3)10 lectures • 1hr 46min

Creating Weapon, Ammo, and Health Pickups (Godot 3)2 lectures • 20min

Making the Player UI (Godot 3)4 lectures • 18min

Final (Godot 3)2 lectures • 8min

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