readable code in PCK file

[brug]

Godot Version

4.4 linux

Question

Hi!
When I export, regardless of the target, the code appears in readable form in the pck file, even if I set script to “compressed binary token”. Is it normal ? Can this be changed ? Thank you for your answers.

[hexgrid]

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[brug]

Thank you, that would work.
However I don’t understand why the script needs to appear as is (even the comments are there), I was under the assumption that scripts only needed a “pre-compiled” form to run, like bytecode in java. I first assumed this was due to debug mode, but even in release mode the code is there.
Is there some rational behind this ?

[mrcdk]

@brug

However I don’t understand why the script needs to appear as is (even the comments are there), I was under the assumption that scripts only needed a “pre-compiled” form to run, like bytecode in java. I first assumed this was due to debug mode, but even in release mode the code is there.
Is there some rational behind this ?

If you are using built-in scripts they will always be saved as is as text embedded in the .tscn file.

GDScript files ( .gd) will be tokenized in binary and compressed (.gdc) They can be converted back to text files but comments aren’t saved so you won’t get those back.