Godot - VFX for Games - Beginner to Intermediate (Udemy.com)

Learned a lot about Godot, Blender, Material maker programs and how to use them together. Teacher has given also the complete project as a end result, so you always have a working version with all that is done. Next step after this course is to try to recreate it from cratch.

The course does a good job covering the basics of 3D VFX creation in Godot and covers a variety of effects you're likely to use — from how emitters work and the directions effects travel, to using both 2D textures and 3D meshes in a 3D world. If you're just getting started, this course will meet your needs. I do, however, have to note that — if it wasn't clear from the preview — this course does not cover 2D VFX such as sprite animations or flipbooks. I knew that coming in, but if that's what you're looking for, you won't find it here. One improvement I think could be added to the course is the use of the AnimationPlayer node. I know you used scripts to delay particles, but I've seen more recent tutorials use AnimationPlayer, which does seem quite powerful. And I believe Godot now has built-in 3D particle trails as well — may be worth looking into that for future versions of the tutorial instead of the GPUTrails extension. I'm not familiar with them myself; I've simply seen them used more frequently lately.

The course so far (halfway through climax phase of the AoE effect) has been primarily following along as the instructor sets dozens of settings. There is very little discussion of why we modify some settings, but not others. Additionally, there is no discussion about the specific values are being used. It's basically following the instructor recreating effects they've already created. Generally this is a good course to show where all the settings are (except those that have changed in newer releases), and what parts can be used to compose an effect. It's not a course for understanding why to take certain approaches versus others when making an effect. I feel like after completing this course, I'll still struggle with creating effects from scratch.

Very well explained course and well paced. Very beginner friendly. Goes in depth with the GPUParticle3D and GPUTrails nodes, material maker for creating procedural textures as well as explaining some basic blender modeling and uv unwrapping knowledge when needed.

I really enjoyed the course. It definitely taught me HOW to do things and with very reasonable amount of work the results are amazing. I personally would want more of WHY some things are happening. What effect on the result it has, what are the alternatives? Why did we stretch the UVs on the meshes to-be-exported in the Blender? Why did we sometimes use MatMaker Colorize to make black transparent and sometimes didn't? Why using Quads is the way to go instead using some other simple mesh for particles to make them look more like [something]? Why sometimes is great idea to use Velocity and other times Acceleration? But overall, great course, great experience. Thank you

Really nice course to get used to the most common tools. Some aspects may deserve a little bit more explanations I think but overall this is great content for the price. Thank you for the time and effort you put into it, I'll continue to follow your work closely !

For the First time getting learn about Blender-Friendly Game engine Vfx, This lecture is Amazing. But I felt quite challenging when it comes to understand how 'Dissolving Fire' Shader parameters are made with complex node trees. I Don't know much about Vectors (like difference between vector2 and vector4.) and How the node works for shader parameter. I hope this lecture add some more node knowledge with 'How this node works.'

Its great course to come into the particle effects of godot and i liked it very much, how Gabriel explains the relation and combination of different settings. it is easy to follow and worked right away on my side. I would like maybe extend it for lightning kind effect or animation like morphing an object that flies away or something. But still it is a great course and i recommend to get it for godot users :) Big thanks to Gabriel for sharing it with us!

I definitely recommend this course if you struggle putting your theoretical knowledge of Godot particle systems into practice (like I did). The main thing the course is trying to teach is to combine some pretty simple particle systems to get an effect that looks surprisingly impressive. I also liked the fact that we would create our own textures and shaders for the particle systems. They are not very complicated textures and shaders, but I think it was a really good idea to not just grab a bunch of textures from the internet.

Overall the course is a good beginner course but I would caution anyone buying it to be aware that it only covers the 3D portion of VFX nodes within Godot. In some cases a 3D VFX may work just fine in a 2D world, but in others the 3D VFX will not be able to be seen due to the perspective of your camera. There are distinct difference of the 2D vs 3D particle nodes in Godot so I think this is an important call out and should probably have been brought up by the author in the course intro video or the title/description. This course is the 'follow along as I do it' style course, which is pretty standard however there are a couple of 'lectures' near the beginning of the 2 main modules where the instructor sketches out what the planned VFX is going to look like. These style of lectures were very valuable - and I think the course could have benefited from similar style breakdowns of some of the VFX controls within Godot from a theory/application standpoint rather than strictly "follow what I am doing" approach for deeper learning could have been an improvement on the course.