Are there project architecture style guides? (beyond the official docs)

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@gvicenteg

I really like the way you organize things, and I am really curious about your add-ons. It is something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while but I have never found the time.

Thank you. All my add-ons are open source, so feel free to use them. I split them out so that I only need to pull in what I use. If Godot was a little more library friendly, I’d probably separate them out even more. But I’ve been working on them for a year now. And TBH they are constantly behind whatever my latest project is - but they continue to get better. I need to totally re-vamp my Music plugin after the Godot 4.5 release.

@gvicenteg

As for the project structure, it follows more or less what I do, but I really like to separate abstract stuff (mostly code) from assets and from game items. I’m not sure this approach is taking me anywhere because I’m not entirely comfortable, but I’ll stick to it for a while, and if it does not work, I’ll try yours.

I guess that depends on what you view as abstract. What I view as abstract goes in utilities. Everything else I consider quite concrete and the scripts go where the scenes are. But it depends on your workflow. Right-click → Show in FileSystem is very useful.

@gvicenteg

Another thing that bugs me is UI. because I don’t know if I should consider it its own category. For example, the inventory could go inside the player directory, but cases like this are not common, so it feels weird to keep only a few files outside of the UI directory, buuuut it also feels wrong to have them anywhere else.

I do most UI in the game state machine.

Especially inside the Main Menu Usier Interface scene:

However, inventory and HUD I always do hanging off the player. Typically they require a lot of knowledge about the player and there are usually signals

For example this is the 2D view of my 3D player in my game Skele-Tom.

Which in-game looks like this:

And this:

In Eternal Echoes I made the CanvasLayer its own scene:

And then each corner of the UI was it’s own scene:

In-game it looks like this:

Or this:

Depending on if you’re using a gamepad or keyboard.