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Zylann
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Published before Godot 3 was released.
I created a level object as a scene, and I need to display special things in the editor to make its edition more user-friendly.
I tried to add it in the script with get_tree().is_editor_hint(), but because of the way my script works it becomes a bloat nightmare.
So I’m doing this with additional nodes, so the two logics are well separated. While these nodes are handy, I don’t want them to end up in the exported game.
How can I tell Godot not to include a specific node of a scene?
On Godot 2.1 you can make an EditorExportPlugin to pick the scene, remove the node you don’t want, re-pack the scene (with PackedScene.pack()) and return it with var2bytes().
It’s a convoluted process, but for such a specific situation I think there’s no easy way.
I would suggest simply remove with free or queue_free node in ready if get_tree().is_editor_hint()check fails.
I thought about this solution as well. Should be ok for a small amount of nodes but I would prefer a scalable solution.
Actually, I managed to modify my script so I can integrate the editor code with reasonable overhead without relying on additional nodes. Well, it doubles the script’s size and there are extra calls in a few setters and _process(), but I don’t have any better solution yet.
The first thing I’d do is put all your editor-only nodes into one group; that should make it easier to act on them (via get_nodes_in_group or similar). Then have one central script in charge of managing that group - maybe when the scene runs it checks for whether it’s in the editor or not, and frees all the nodes in that group if it isn’t.
