why the .scn file must be saved before playing everytime?

imdjs

why the .scn file must be saved before playing everytime? even the scene objects are not be modified, only modify the script. sometimes the .scn file is very large that will take a long time to save(it's bad for the hard disk with frequently writting large file also). is there any setting to avoid saving the scene? if the .scn file has been modified it should be saved,but if the .scn file is not been modified, it's not necessary to be saved. usually we only modify the .gd file but not the .scn file.

Megalomaniak

I'll answer the question in topic title with a question. How can an external process(the game runtime) run a scene if it isn't saved somewhere first?

As for the more detailed question in the post itself. That sounds like a feature request for the proposals tracker: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues

cybereality

I've only been testing relatively simple scenes, but saving is almost instantaneous for me (maybe 1 or 2 seconds at the most). Are you working on a huge open world level or something? Is there maybe some way to break up the scene into smaller sections or otherwise reduce the complexity?

imdjs

Now I have solved this problem in editor setting>>run>>Auto save.

cybereality

Cool, didn't know that was an option.