Changing the location of the Export Templates

system · March 21, 2022, 11:42pm


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	Asked By	iAmStos

Hello all!

I am a high school teacher in New Zealand and we are teaching our senior students Godot after moving rom Unity last year. We are having a problem that our network manager pointed out. To quote him about me asking to add the export templates to our new school image “Ok, Godot by default stores the templates in c:\users{username}\appdata\roaming\godot.… which is the users roaming profile, and specifically one place we don’t want 500+mb of files inside (slows the login process down).” We are wondering if there is a work around for this?

Thank you so much to the awesome dev team and community.

system · March 22, 2022, 6:27pm


	Reply From:	w411-3

Go to Download for Windows - Godot Engine and there is actually an option to download the export templates manually. Place them wherever you want, and in Godot do to Editor > Manage Export Templates. You should be able to just point godot to where you put the templates (you may have to unzip them first, I’m not sure) and voila. Hopefully.

Hope it works out

qu_c_tu_n_d_ng · May 3, 2025, 12:34pm

This reply from the system is in fact a massive lie, you can go check in settings right now, and it will only show the folder location, not allowing to change it.

Want sauce to back it up? How about an official issue that was never fixed since 2022 for this feature? All you will read in it is “We can’t add this feature because we don’t really have a way.”

github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals

Allow placing export templates in an application-level directory

opened 05:51PM - 07 Apr 21 UTC

jasonliu--

topic:editor topic:export

### Describe the project you are working on I am the creator and maintainer o…f the [Godot package](https://ports.macports.org/port/godot) for the [MacPorts](https://www.macports.org/) package management system. First off, I should point out that I believe this proposal is somewhat related to #647 and #831. ### Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project I would like to deploy the export templates as a part of my Godot package. However, as explained in [Godot's documentation](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/development/compiling/compiling_for_android.html#installing-the-templates), the export templates must be saved to a user-level directory. ### Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation Instead of needing to place the export templates into a user-level directory, such as: * Windows: `%APPDATA%\Godot\templates\<version>\` * Linux: `$HOME/.local/share/godot/templates/<version>/` * macOS: `$HOME/Library/Application Support/Godot/templates/<version>/` the Godot editor should also scan for the export templates in an application-level directory, e.g.: * Windows: `%PROGRAMDATA%\Godot\templates\<version>\` * Linux: `/usr/local/share/godot/templates/<version>` (MacPorts also uses the Linux FHS, but everything lives in `/opt/local` instead of `/usr/local`, so if the root directory prefix could be re-targetable, that would be even better) * macOS: `/Library/Application Support/Godot/templates/<version>` A common use-case would be on any computer that is being used as a multi-user system. For example, imagine a computer lab where a "Teach Kids Game Development" summer camp is being held, and Godot is the software being used. Kids do not have assigned computers, so the computer they are sitting at during morning sessions might be different than the computer they are using in afternoon sessions. It would be quite inconvenient if every student is forced to either download the export templates each time they sit down at a different computer, or have to copy the export templates from a network share into somewhere in their home directory. Instead, it would be much better if the IT support staff were able to place the export templates into the application-level directories, and the Godot editor would be able to find the templates, regardless of which user account is logged into the computer. It would also allow software packagers like myself to include export templates as part of the package. ### Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudocode, mockups, and/or diagrams Hopefully achieving this would be fairly simple. Add the application-level directories to the list of default locations that the Godot editor will scan when looking for the export templates. It would be nice if Godot would scan the application-level directories *first*, and then *also* scan the user-level directories. This would still allow users to add specific export templates only for themselves that might override the application-level templates. ### If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script? I expect that this would be used very often. Pretty much whenever export templates are used. ### Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library? This would be a fundamental change to how the Godot editor scans for and finds the export templates.

This is a horrible problem, need fixes asap.