How to auto enable godot plugins from the commandline?

dumb_godot_questions · September 17, 2024, 4:32pm

There is EditorInterface.set_plugin_enabled(), but to use that function it has to be in an enabled plugin. And to enable a plugin I have to touch the gui. I want to only use the cli.

Is there a way that works without enabling plugins so I can automate plugin enabling without using the gui?

I don’t like manually editing the project.godot ini file, does godot expose an api for this?

wyattbiker · September 17, 2024, 9:07pm

A plugin’s purpose is to be used in the GUI Editor. It is not made for runtime. Can explain what you are trying to do?

Even if you quit, plugins remain enabled once you enable them.

dumb_godot_questions · September 18, 2024, 1:57pm

I want to make a script that enables all of my godot plugins in a new project, automatically without having to press a gui button. I want a cli script that does this, without fiddling with the interface.

It’s easy to make a script to copy my plugin folders into /addons in a new project but I want to have some gdscript that auto enables them too.

After that I want to make gdscript that uses ProjectSettings.set_setting and ProjectSettings.save() to automatically set a new project’s settings to my preferred settings.

It appears that ProjectSettings.save has to be used by an editor plugin.

I want to do all of this without having to parse and edit the ini file, because that’s fragile. I rather use whatever apis godot exposes for this.

I make a lot of new projects, and I want to automate setting project settings, and enabled plugins.
I have already written a script that edits the project.godot ini file, for both of these, but I don’t think that is robust.

wyattbiker · September 18, 2024, 8:25pm

Godot at the moment does not have a way of having addon appear across projects automatically, but there is a proposal out there you can add your voice to,

github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals

Add support for global plugins/universal addons

opened 08:24AM - 13 May 20 UTC

mrjustaguy

topic:editor topic:plugin

**Describe the project you are working on:** For this the specific project doesn't matter, what matters is that I'm using the same addon for several of my projects. **Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project:** I see it useful for people (like me) who use a ton of the same addons across different projects because it would speed up things if it auto loaded the addons from some directory i set for the engine (much like you set the engines default project directory) **Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation:** It would be a feature that would allow for automatic addon placement in a new project, thus speeding things up for people who use a ton of addons and make a ton of projects. **Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudocode, mockups, and/or diagrams:** The idea is simple, the user can make a Directory that you label as the universal addon directory in the editor settings (much like you set a directory for default project location), so for every new project when it is created the editor will automatically put the addons (or it could ask which addons you want to put from the directory in when the project is created) the pseudocode would look something like: 1. Grab editor setting "Universal addon" (or some such name) 2. Gets the new project directory 2. (Upon project creation, optional) popup a list of addons from the directory that can be toggled on/off 3. (in case of 2 implementation) When ok is pressed copy all of the addons toggled on 4. Grabs the addons, places them in the new project directory as an addon **If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?:** It can be worked around by making a directory where you store addons and you can just copy them over to the project, so it's not that big of a deal, this would just shave off a few steps making this quicker. **Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?:** Because it's an improvement to the add-on/asset library and one couldn't make an add-on for Godot that would do this (I'm fairly sure atleast)

That said, what I do I have a plugin manager installed (itself us a plugin). So when I create a new project, I copy the plugins to addons I can easily enable and reset plugins from that, Example is this one.

https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/1826

You may also lok at this project: