Xrayez / godot-vector-resource

Visually edit and store Vector2/3 core data types as resources in Godot Engine.

Godot Vector Resource

A Godot Engine plugin which introduces a new VectorResource type and an accompanying editor. These allow to store vectors externally and conveniently edit Vector2/3 core data types as regular resources which can be shared between multiple instances.

The plugin provides a way to edit any Vector2 and Vector3 by creating and modifying a VectorResource:

Then you can edit the vector visually given the following planes/components:

• Front/XY
• Top/XZ
• Side/ZY

Normalized (unit) vectors are possible to set with the snapped option and different grid_step, allowing to set unit vectors with different aspect ratios, and any other vector can be set given its max_length starting from origin.

Using from code

Vector swizzling syntax is used to fetch either Vector2 or Vector3 representations, as well as individual components.

extends Node

# Loads our previously edited vector resource
export(Resource) var vector = preload("res://vector.tres")

func _ready_():
	print(vector.xy) # prints Vector2(16, 32)
	print(vector.xyz) # prints Vector2(16, 32, 48)

	vector.normalized = true
	vector.xy = Vector2(64, 64)

	print(vector.xy) # prints Vector2( 0.624695, 0.624695 )
	print(vector.xyz) # prints Vector3( 0.624695, 0.624695, 0.468521 )