A2G

Assets to Godot — a community asset browser and workspace for the Godot editor: browse, organize and import free CC0 3D models, PBR materials, textures and HDRIs from BlendKit, Polyhaven, ambientCG and your own drives, without leaving the editor.

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What it is

Assets2Godot is a free, open-source (GPLv2) Godot 4 editor plugin and asset manager that turns the editor into an asset browser and staging ground for multiple sources at once — free CC0 game assets (3D models, PBR materials, textures, HDRIs) plus your own library:

• BlendKit tab — the full upstream Blendkit for Godot experience: search, filters, plans/login, downloads into Assets2Godot/bk_assets/ (needs the bundled bk_client daemon).
• Polyhaven + ambientCG tabs — the public CC0 catalogs (models, materials, textures, HDRIs, brushes, decals, atlases) in pure GDScript — no account, no daemon.
• Your own library — a local index over external asset folders, project files and open-scene resources. Files stay where they are; staging into res://imported_assets/<asset_name>/ is always explicit.
• Drag & drop into the scene — drop a provider card into the 3D viewport: models place at the hit point behind a live ghost preview, materials and textures assign to the mesh under the cursor, HDRIs apply to the WorldEnvironment and terrain/decal map-sets land as textured planes — every drop one undoable action. Dropping onto the FileSystem dock downloads into the project instead.
• Right-click any provider card for a compact quick-download tile (format picker + one-click download).

All provider downloads land under res://Assets2Godot/<provider>/ — one shared, gitignored parent next to your project files.

Status: experimental (alpha) — the core surfaces work; expect rough edges. The A2G button overlays an organization surface (collections, favorites, batch ops — see Roadmap).

Requirements

• Godot Engine 4 (4.4+; CI tests 4.4.1 and 4.7.x) — Windows, Linux, macOS (x86_64, arm64)
• Recommended: Blender for .blend assets and HDR/material conversion
• bk_client ships inside the full release ZIP; the *_nobin.zip variant downloads the pinned client on first run (the Godot-store variant). Only the BlendKit tab needs it.

Installation

Download the ZIP from Releases or itch.io, extract into your project root, then Project → Project Settings → Plugins → enable Assets2Godot. The workspace appears in the editor's top bar next to Asset Store.

Upgrading: delete addons/assets2godot/, then install the new version.

Building & development

Requires Python 3; Go only for --from-source.

git clone https://github.com/ikonnow/Assets2Godot.git
cd Assets2Godot
python dev.py build     # client binaries + plugin → out/assets2godot_vX.Y.Z.zip
python dev.py           # all commands (test, e2e, launch-status, ...)

The repo is itself a Godot project — open it in the editor to hack on the plugin. The dev branch carries the full dev tooling — architecture notes, provider specs and test suites (none of it ships to main).

Roadmap

• Organization overlay — collections, favorites, multi-select and batch import across providers
• More providers — the provider contract is documented in docs/specs/remote-providers.md on the dev branch
• Client signing — signed bk_client binaries (today's unsigned builds trigger expected Gatekeeper/SmartScreen warnings)

Credits & License

Assets2Godot is Free and Open Source Software under GPLv2.

It is based on Blendkit for Godot by Jakub Ruzicka and Andreas Gajdosik (BlenderKit s.r.o.) — upstream history, license and notices are preserved. The bk_client helper is a fork of BlenderKit/bk_client. Provider logos: Poly Haven per their API terms, ambientCG per its brand guide — see addons/assets2godot/logo/LICENSE.

Support

Assets2Godot is maintained in my spare time. If it saves you time, you can support the work voluntarily via ingmar.konnow.de/support (Stripe, any amount — donations are appreciated, not required, and don't entitle you to support or priority).

For bugs and feature requests, please use GitHub Issues — the better the description, the easier the fix. For professional collaboration (migrations, pipeline work, Unreal→Godot tooling), reach out via ingmar.konnow.de or ingmar@konnow.de.

Related project: UE2Godot — an Unreal Engine 5 → Godot 4 exporter that keeps levels playable (lights, collision, volumes, audio arrive as working Godot nodes, not a flat mesh dump).

Contributing

Contributions are welcome — please open an issue first so we can align on scope, then send a pull request against the dev branch.