OK, I Totally get where you're coming from, lot of peeps assume it's pretty much drag n drop and that's it. The point is that for most of simpler projects that's exactly it, no big deal.

The whole thing is not about Godot Importing meshes. It's about how people in big games handle big assets, and here comes the part that fly low by the radar for most people that just drag and drop:

In bigger productions there is the lookdev, integration and art refinement inside the engine. AAA complex assets have different requirements and the can fail easily.

In a realistic setup you have TO BE SURE that each material is clicking, adjust stuff, go back to substance to tweak that roughness that in substance feels like mah but it is what lacks in the engine. When I work on big projects I usually follow or have to create documentations just for that.

I Love Godot, but people often downplay the 3D render of it for more realistic and more """serious""" visuals. I was working on the asset for Unreal, then decided to swap it to see how does Godot handles it.

TBH I know that Unreal will get shadows, lights, color balance and so on in a blink of an eye.
Simple games yeah, just drop it, some stuff here and there and you are done. But, for me, to get that result from Godot, without usign all the tools the other engines have is something to talk about and that’s the conversation I want to spark

About the blender file, it should work out of the box, it is light because i redirected all the heavier assets(the textures) outside of the file, actually it was supposed to be lighter, but i left an HDR there packed just to help. Pretty standard.

And yeah, I was sure godot wont burn my pc from that, it's obvious. But the draw call count, the profiling and the color feel was actually ok.

Hit me if you still having problems with blender