WYSIWYG composition for viewport textures

[Ace-Dragon]

Bugsquad edit: Godot 3.0, current master branch.

Check the GUI_In_3D demo on how, right now at least, you need to compose the viewport texture blind (you get the 2D window when you add a UI node, but nothing shows up).

So it would be nice to be able to see the composition you are making, as I imagine the current situation will prove to be a headache for very complex stuff.

Can this be done, would it be good to have?

[Zireael07]

Are you on 2.1. or 3.0?

[Ace-Dragon]

I'm on Godot 3.0 (build done today).

[reduz]

You can always do it in a separate scene and instance it. That's what Godot is about :)

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[reduz]

Oh, misunderstood. Check the demo, it's all done with zero code On Sep 30, 2017 3:49 PM, "Juan Linietsky" <[email protected]> wrote: You can always do it in a separate scene and instance it. That's what Godot is about :)

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[mhilbrunner]

To be honest, I don't get what you're requesting at all. Can you maybe explain it some more, or in another way? Not really getting it, sorry.

[karroffel]

@mhilbrunner for example, in one of my game projects I use a Sprite3D using a viewport texture to display Control nodes in the 3D space. The problem is that there is no visual feedback with the viewport. I basically set it all up "in the dark" and then I see in game if it looks right.

[mhilbrunner]

Ah, makes sense. Thanks :)

[KoBeWi]

This is somewhat related to #20619

Both are caused by nodes being inside different Vieport than the editor's.

[rcorre]

You can always do it in a separate scene and instance it. That's what Godot
is about :)

This is true, and is what I ususally end up doing, but I found this issue after having multiple times where I thought "ugh, I wish I could just edit this in the same scene". This happens a lot where I want to create little simple GUI elements in 3D space (tooltips/hints/HUD elements, ect.).

This bug is misleading when you have two controls in the same scene and one of them is in a separate viewport. Selecting the control in the separate viewport instead shows the control from the current viewport.

In this screenshot, I've selected the Crosshairs viewport (which is used to display a GUI element in 3D), but it is actually showing the HUD viewport.

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[Zireael07]

I think it's more of a bugfix that enhancement proposal - all other 2d scenes can be composed WYSIWYG, only viewports don't.