Do I use `EditorImportPlugin` or `EditorScenePostImportPlugin` for AnimationLibrary import automation?

[Mopzilla]

I want to automate my post-import process for my game animations.
Currently I choose Import as Animation Library for my .blend file.
Then inside the advanced importer I check keep custom tracks for each animation, and set the animation save paths to /raw/.

The issue is I want to add more automation to this process.
I want every single animation to keep custom tracks, and I don’t want to manually enable this on a per-animation basis.
I also want all animations to import as an AnimationLibrary, storing the animations to file in a folder named raw in the same directory as the library.
I also need to duplicate and mirror animations ending in _left or _right so I can play them for either side.
Lastly I want to automatically delete animation resources no longer present in the imported scene. For example if I import attack_1 and attack_2, but then I remove attack_2 from the .blend file, I want the import process to automatically remove the attack_2 resource from file and the library.

I’d like importing like this to be the same as the built-in AnimationLibrary, with an option inside the import window to Import as Custom Animation Library or something along those lines.


I am not looking for handholding on this topic, or for someone to just make it for me. I am just confused on one particular part, which class/method do I use to do this import process?

From what I can see there are three options: post-import scripts, EditorImportPlugin, or EditorScenePostImportPlugin.

From reading other posts on this forum, it appears that post-import scripts lack the ability to set keep custom tracks.

This leaves EditorImportPlugin and EditorScenePostImportPlugin.

I have been told in the Godot Discord that EditorImportPlugin is more for importing custom file types which Godot does not support out of the box. This leads me to believe I should use EditorScenePostImportPlugin, but there is no documentation for using this class.

Can I just use the same methods as the documentation for EditorImportPlugin, or is there somewhere I should look to learn how to use EditorScenePostImportPlugin?

Thanks for any guidance on this topic.

[mrcdk]

You’ll need to use a EditorScenePostImportPlugin.

How to make plugins:

Making plugins

EditorScenePostImportPlugin example:

Error when loading FBX file in EditorImportPlugin - how to load fbx files?

You should not use an EditorImportPlugin for this as this class is for importing a whole custom resource and not extending importing a resource with an already implemented resource importer. You should use an EditorScenePostImport script if you only want to do it for specific files. Or use an EditorScenePostImportPlugin if you want to do it for all files. Here’s an example using the latter which exposes saving the materials and animations to the Import dock without having to use the Advanced …

[Mopzilla]

Thank you, I don’t know how to mark the reply as the answer but this is it