Differences between theme saving, making unique, and making unique recursive?

[larasqp]

Themes are good. Thank you Godot team.

Now, I can save them and reuse them. Great so far.

But there is an option to “Make Unique” and “Make Unique (Recursive)” and I have been unable to figure out what they do.

I am sure these options are useful somehow, so if anyone could explain or point the way, it would be much appreciated.

Thank you all.

[Locher]

Let’s say you have 1 button in one scene and 1 button in another scene and they have the same theme applied. If you change the theme slightly (example: adjusting font size) and save it, then this will be applied to all buttons.

But in many situations, you only want one button to be affected, so you make the theme on this button unique so all changes only apply to one button in that one scene without affected any other scenes.

Make Unique (Recursive) also affects all sub resources that are connected to the node that the theme is applied on. This is helpful in cases where you have one big Mesh with many materials attached to them and they all depend on the theme.

[larasqp]

Thank you very, very much.