Godot Version
4.3
Question
As the title says, my question ist:
How would i build a Node-Selector Dialog for my Plugin?
I am trying to make a Plugin where i need to select a Node from the Scene i am currently editing. But i cant seem to make it work the way i want it to.
What i want is something like this (honestly exactly this would be perfect):
(this is the node selector that is opened when you want to add a propertie track to an animation)
But every time i try it, all the children of the scene instance get displayed in my tree too.
I´ve deleted most of what i did out of frustration. So i would need some time to provide pictures of my problem, if anyone wants them.
Have you looked at the godot manual? There’s several different ways to manipulate scene/node data. I think one is get_parent(). Gets the parent of the scene/node that it belongs to.
For example, if it was used on “some_node”, it would get the parent, “animation_play”.
I might be wrong on what it’s called, how its used, etc. but, there is options to navigate how/what you need for the scene tree.
If I can find it in manual, ill link it.
Might be Worth looking at:
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_node.html
You can also reference nodes & instantiated scenes in script directly.
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If I understand it correctly, you’re trying to make a node-picker, but end up with the children of the scenes in your tree/picker?
Are you using a recursive function? You can check if a node has an owner that isn’t the root node then return from the recursive function. You can also force tree to collapse that specific branch.
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Yes, that is pretty much what i want.
I made a recursive function, but i didnt realy know what to check for.
I am going to try that right now. But from the sound of it, that should work for me.
On a side note, is there any way to get the icon that is used to display the nodes in the scene view on the left ?
EDIT:
i tried it with the owner of the node and it works now!
ty for the quick replies!
EDIT2:
for anyone looking at this in the future: this is my final result, and pretty much exactly what i wanted.
