How to export road network to custom data format.

huhund

Hi,

I have a set of cities that connects to each other. I would like to get some suggestions of how to create custom tools and how to export the data to a custom data format.

I done this e.g. in Unity but I'm new to Godot so I don't know where start looking. In the end I would like to: How some tools for easily creating custom Nodes for the cities Know how to traverse the scene from the editor so that I can find my city nodes Save it in array that only contains the position of the city and which cities are connected (nothing else) Read it as binary format to the game

Any suggestions of docs or other discussion that could help me figure this out would be appreciated.

Best, Hu

klaas

Hi huhund,

How some tools for easily creating custom Nodes for the cities Godot editor is your tool. build a city with all graphics effects and logic in one scene and save it as tscn and you can easyly spawn it via instance() or drag it into another scene Know how to traverse the scene from the editor so that I can find my city nodes imho groups is the way to go. stick your city in the group and get it via get_tree().get_nodes_in_group(nodename_as_string) Save it in array that only contains the position of the city and which cities are connected (nothing else) Read it as binary format to the game

read here https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/step_by_step/filesystem.html and here https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/classes/class_file.html#method-descriptions

huhund

It took me a while to sit down and have time to look at this. In the end it was quite simple. But getting there took some browsing through the docs. To help others it decided to share it here:

https://github.com/huhund/waypoint_editor

Enjoy!

cybereality

Thanks for sharing!