godot-snippets
A list of useful Godot snippets.
Basics
Instancing a scene by code
var scene_file = preload("res://path/to/scene_file.tscn")
var scene_instance = scene_file.instance()
add_child(scene_instance)Play some music
func play(music):
var stream = load("res://" + str(music) + ".opus")
get_node("StreamPlayer").set_stream(stream)
get_node("StreamPlayer").play()Printing only when running from editor, or debug-mode exports
func print_debug(text):
if OS.is_debug_build():
print(text)Printing to console with a timestamp
# YYYY-MM-DD
func get_date():
return str(OS.get_date()["year"]) + "-" + str(OS.get_date()["month"]).pad_zeros(2) + "-" + str(OS.get_date()["day"]).pad_zeros(2)
# hh:mm:ss
func get_time():
return str(OS.get_time()["hour"]).pad_zeros(2) + ":" + str(OS.get_time()["minute"]).pad_zeros(2) + ":" + str(OS.get_time()["second"]).pad_zeros(2)
# [YYYY-MM-DD | hh:mm:ss]
func print_timestamp(text):
print("[" + get_date() + " | " + get_time() + "] " + text)Make a string translatable (with possible replacement)
func _ready():
print(tr("HELLO_WORLD"))
print(tr("COLLECT_N_APPLES").replace("%s", str(apples)))Advanced
Game options management using an .ini file
func get_option(section, key, default):
var config = ConfigFile.new()
config.load("user://config.ini")
var value = config.get_value(section, key, default)
return value
func set_option(section, key, value):
var config = ConfigFile.new()
config.load("user://config.ini")
config.set_value(section, key, value)
config.save("user://config.ini")License
Copyright (c) 2016 Calinou and contributors
This file and all snippets included are under CC0 1.0 Universal. See LICENSE.md for more information.