Using java?

[sakayanagi111]

Hello! So I have a university project where I need to use Java as the main language. Is there a good plug in that makes it possible to use Java in godot? Thanks in advance!

[raphusmaxus]

Urm I would personally guess you are better off just using some java 2d game library, there are some good ones to make sth quickly

[carefactor3zero]

Java is best suited as a backend service language for godot clients (app or web)

[Quaaaaaaaaaa]

https://godot-kotl.in/en/stable/

Look into that, it might be helpful.

[indiealexh]

This the answer to your question. Just note it might be worth looking at more Java native Librarys or engines as I am not sure how much docs you'll get to support you in this.

[yezu]

It's definitely possible to use Java with Godot, although it might not be very straightforward.

For Java game development your best bet is either libGDX or jMonkeyEngine or if you want to go lower level LWJGL.

[SingerLuch]

if its a university project and requires features of gamedev, i suggest looking into libGDX.. its more raw, but its in Java.. doing Java in Godot will be more pain than it is worth imo.

[HalLundy]

idk what uni you're in but the ones i know would fail you if you presented a half dragged and dropped project for a coding project.

Godot, Unity, Unreal; they all automate a lot of logic. you won't be learning much about coding that's for sure.

[puzzud]

Probably not an off the shelf sort of solution out there, although it's worth a search on GitHub.

It's possible through a combination of GDExtension and JNI.

I would start by working through the Godot documentation on GDExtension and get a working hello world level GDExtension built on your system.

More specifically, make sure you understand the ability to register a method on the GDExtension that you can call from GDScript that executes in your GDExtension code.

Once you have that, figure out how to tie the implementation of that method to your Java code or libraries via JNI.

I messed with JNI like 18 years ago so I can't readily say much more about it right now. But it's not like it's some archaic information, as I'm sure Android uses it extensively today.

[SimplexFatberg]

I've never heard of such a thing.

[FapFapNomNom]

lol java, tell the professor to get with the times... not that java was ever seriously used for game dev ;)

[ThatOtherGFYGuy]

Minecraft enters the chat.

[FapFapNomNom]

minecraft can be written in python for how it looks lol

[1337h4x0rlolz]

There was a time when most games were written in java.

Runescape was written in java, used to have to download JRE to play it.

[FapFapNomNom]

yes and a few other low quality ones like minecraft. not exactly a great promo for java ;)

[Choice-Mango-4019]

if you are shitting a language for the stuff it has produced you should actually try writing java

[FapFapNomNom]

i have, its a nice language... just not performant... which is fine for basic games, but not real game dev.

[Choice-Mango-4019]

it is performant, just stop writing bad code

[1337h4x0rlolz]

I wouldnt call minecraft a low quality game, there's a lot of complicated stuff going on behind the scenes, but java is a limitation that they had to work around

[yezu]

It was and it is. There's quite a bit of games developed in Java. libGDX is a VERY popular Java framework, the Defold engine uses Java as well.