Jerakin's editor scripts

The Defoldmine
#1

I have been updating my post Editor Scripts 🔥: Alpha Release - #38 by Jerakin but it’s getting quite burried so I decided to move them into new topic, I will update this topic with any extensions I create.

editor-script-atlas

  • Add any number of images to the selected atlas.
  • Add any number of images to the selected atlas, as an animation.
  • Create a new atlas from the selected images

editor-script-templates

Define your own template files and create them from the file context menu. Use this create default files such as lua modules that have all your basic setup already made in them, such as requiring your utils libraries.

editor-script-extra-locations

Add locations to which you can browse to within the engine. Use this to add locations to things such as save files to easily remove them.

editor-script-align

Align gui nodes. You can find it under the Edit menu. Currently limited as I can not get parent of a node #2815 or all properties from the outline #2819. I also only take Z rotation into account.
Future plans: With #2819 and #2815 I will be able to make this a lot more useful/flexible.

editor-script-distribute

Distribute gui nodes. You can find it under the Edit menu. It is currently limited in the same way as editor-script-align
Future plans: With #2819 and #2815 I will be able to make this a lot more useful/flexible.

editor-script-check-dependencies-versions

Update: Sometimes Defold doesn’t find the installed python version. I usually run the python script standalone now days.
This extension requires python to be installed. It print the status of your dependencies as an easy way to see if they are up to date or not.
Future plans: If/When #2798 is fixed (need http support in editor_scripts) I plan to convert it to pure lua.

Example output:

Project 'defold-clipboard' is up to date.

Project 'defold-lfs' is outdated, latest version is
  https://github.com/britzl/defold-lfs/archive/1.0.1.zip
  
Project 'extension-gps' is up to date.

Edits:
2024-03-09: Added editor-script-templates and editor-script-extra-locations
2024-03-10: Added a feature to atlas to enable you to add the selected images as an animation.

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Changing gui's content using an editor script
Editor Scripts and UI collection
#2

Gread job @Jerakin
i think Defold needs a separate section in Asset portal for Editor scripts, generally i think asset portal needs a rework

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#3

Excellent idea!

What did you have in mind specifically?

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#4

A post was split to a new topic: Improvements to the Asset Portal

#5

Agree about the separate section. Would be nice to have integrated in the editor too?

My worry is that functionality will look fragmented, especially to relatively new users.

And I would also expect some of this extensions to make it into the editor itself, if they are tackling core functionalities (object snapping and aligning for example).

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#6

Thanks for sharing the code for the align scripts even if they are incomplete. They helped me a lot when trying to figure out how to write my own editor scripts.

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#7

You are very welcome, happy it can at least serve as an example until I can make it more useful

Oh and I would love to see any editor extensions you make :slight_smile:

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#8

I didn’t quite manage to produce anything very useful yet, but it was good to get an idea of what’s possible with the system. (I was hoping to basically add shortcuts to some of our existing gui utilities, but since calling gui.* anything from an editor script won’t work, code reuse like that seems practically impossible.)

#9

Added a new extension to the list editor-script-templates. With it you are able to define your own file templates, the script simply copies the defined template file into a new location. I find this very useful at the start of a project where I am often creating a bunch of gui_script and lua files that all use the same libraries/modules.

I also added a section of an old editor-script that I forgot to add to the list editor-script-extra-location. Useful to for quickly browsing to relevant locations.

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