How to structure a project and best practices?

mpkarlo

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to the Godot engine, and have been trying to get my feet wet the past few weeks. I've seen a couple of tutorials and blogs, read a bit of the documentation. But having some years of experience as a developer, I feel like the best practices and structure of a project can often be key to its success. I'd like to get a head start on these things, but most tutorials are more concerned with getting you up and running fast and getting a demo or basic project out.

Are there any good resources where I can study this about Godot's environment? Things like:

How to structure your project
Best practices when working with nodes
What to export from scripts
Testing (Unit Testing?)
Script structure
Best practices for documentation (Scripts and elsewhere)

cybereality

Have you seen this in the docs? https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/workflow/best_practices/

boruok

or https://www.gdquest.com/docs/guidelines/best-practices/godot-gdscript/ or https://www.braindead.bzh/entry/creating-a-game-with-godot-engine-ep-2-project-organization

Kequc

This is a pretty open question. I like to organise by topics, most tutorials I see organise folders by file type.

I'll often have a folder for each of my primary nodes, and within them folders for sub nodes and so on. But it's a loose rule and I'll have additional folders for general topics like for example "generics" which would contain some generic classes I use a lot.

Or a "pathfinding" folder, if I've got complicated pathfinding. Maybe something like "characters" or "enemies" to hold everything related to characters and enemies and so on.

It doesn't really matter how you structure your projects directories, I just think this is the easiest way to find stuff.