How do you handle importing a file as several resources? | Godot Engine | Page 1

rose trout Dec 21, 2024, 4:23 AM

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I've got an aseprite file that's a little more complex than just a handful of frame-by-frame animations. It's split into multiple parts, with one part itself split into multiple possible states, and I have to composite that all at runtime, so Godot's typical one-to-one file-to-asset import process is definitely not enough.

I made myself a custom EditorImporterPlugin that can handle importing the same file multiple times with different settings so I can extract all the important data into different resources, and it works great, but actually writing it is really bulky and fiddly, and I still need to take the spritesheets and metadata and turn it into actually useful stuff, like individual sprites and animations.

If you happen to know how to do slightly more complex import processes, I could definitely use some advice.

Also, right now I'm exploring the idea of making the resource files manually, and setting them up to target a source file with all the settings it wants to export with. The problem is that I can't seem to find any way to let it gracefully track the source file to repopulate its data when the source changes, so if you know how to that specific thing, I'd be all set.

rose trout Dec 22, 2024, 8:39 PM

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languid hedge Dec 23, 2024, 5:24 AM

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https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/plugins/editor/import_plugins.html#platform-variants-and-generated-files

Godot Engine documentation

Import plugins

Introduction: An import plugin is a special type of editor tool that allows custom resources to be imported by Godot and be treated as first-class resources. The editor itself comes bundled with a ...

languid hedge Dec 23, 2024, 5:30 AM

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rose trout I've got an aseprite file that's a little more complex than just a handful of fr...

More specifically this part

var next_pass = StandardMaterial3D.new()
next_pass.albedo_color = color.inverted()
var next_pass_path = "%s.next_pass.%s" % [save_path, _get_save_extension()]

err = ResourceSaver.save(next_pass, next_pass_path)
if err != OK:
    return err
r_gen_files.push_back(next_pass_path)

Although it's not clear how this would work from the UI perspective. Only way is to try it out!

#How do you handle importing a file as several resources?