Default Project Template

[blazing ice]

Hello. I know this is probably a super simple, but I can't find any resources for what I'm actually hoping to do. Basically, I want to create a project with a main menu scene, a gameplay scene, etc. Then, I want to be able to import it to kickstart a new project.

I've already created this kind of project, which I'm mostly happy with. The issue is that when I try importing it into a new project in a new file location, it just opens the original project, and saves changes to both files. I'm probably just importing it wrong, but I have no idea how to change this. At the moment, I'm happy with just copy/pasting the files from the default project into the new project, but then I have to reset all the dependencies and other project settings. Not the worst, but I'm sure there's a more ideal solution.

[pulsar olive]

I'm not sure if the Godot project manager has good tools to do this.

Fundamentally what you want is just a copy of the template project, though, which you can do either by copy and pasting it on your hard drive, or keeping a copy of the template in source control and cloning it

(Annoyingly, the project manager does let you copy a template if the template is in the asset library, but it doesn't have tools to do that for your own projects)

[blazing ice]

I mean, I'd be willing to upload it to the asset library, but making updates to that would be harder than managing a github repo (I'm assuming). I hadn't thought of cloning the repo that I have. I guess I'm confused on why that would be different that copying the project file?

[pulsar olive]

Cloning the repo is the same as copying the folder on your local drive, yeah

But "importing" in the project manager just doesn't do what you want it to do. Importing just adds a reference to the folder you already have on your hard drive, there arent options in there to make a copy of the folder