manuq / godot_addon_play_centered

When running a scene that doesn't have a camera, it will be displayed centered as in the editor viewport instead of at the top-left corner.

Play Centered

A Godot editor plugin. When running a scene that doesn't have a camera, it will be displayed centered as in the editor viewport instead of at the top-left corner.

Motivation

How many times have you seen this while editing a project in Godot?

When you actually wanted this:

It happens often when playing a scene that is meant to be instanciated from another scene. But sometimes you want to play them in isolation and you expect to see more-or-less what's in the viewport, not the bottom-right quarter of it.

Note: Godot has a great debugging tool Project Camera Override in the editor viewport toolbar. The problem is that it has to be activated every time, switching back to the editor. This plugin is all about enabling the camera override automatically if:

• Is not the main scene.
• Is not a Control scene.
• The scene doesn't have a camera.

Demo

Video_2024-04-19_17-15-02.webm

Installation

Install it from the Asset Library.

If you've downloaded this manually, do the following:

• Ensure you're using Godot 4.2 or above
• Find the addons folder in your project files, or create it if it doesn't exist yet.
• Move the folder addons/play_centered to your project's addons folder.
• Enable Play Centered under Project > Project Settings > Plugins

Licence

Licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE for more information.