How do you show child nodes of a child scene

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By wyattb

I created a ButtonDialog scene using Panel as the root and added some buttons as child nodes (see image below).

  1. When I instance it as a Control child scene, the child nodes do not show up in the tree. So how does one create a child scene and have all the child nodes show up?

  2. In addition I also made the scene as plugin… But when I add it, the child node buttons that are part of the plugin do not even show up.

ButtonDialog scene

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Added here the ButtonDialog scene, both as an instanced scene a child scene and a plugin.

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: wombatstampede

  1. Right click the node and check “editable child objects” (or similar, I use the editor in another language). The child nodes should then show up. You can even edit them which - to my knowledge - will not edit the parent but apply the changes to that instance only. (marked by a little “reverse” circle next to the changed property).

  2. I would not use a plugin for that. Plugins are (similar to tool scripts) usually helpful if you want to offer (additional) functionality inside the editor. This could be the case if such a user defined control needs a special dialogue for configuration.

But most functionality can usually be done with the help of tool scripts and external variables.
I can’t tell why the plugin fails to show its children without debugging. But as said I wouldn’t go that way in this case anyway.