Text Resources

Lake

I'm doing a decent amount of work with JSON, CSV, and TXT files, which are not visible in the IDE. I know I can import them at runtime, but having to go back and forth between the my desktop file manager and Godot is a serious pain for my workflow. Does anyone know of a workaround to make these files visible?

Likewise, when a game is exported, how are such resources treated? Is everything in res:// packed into the binary regardless of whether it's known that a file is runtime loaded at some point?

cybereality

CSV files work. You cannot edit them in the IDE, but they do appear.

Lake

Actually, I've had to rename my csv files to txt because the csv files the IDE seems to expect are for translation, so my use case clutters things up with errors.

cybereality

For CSV you have to select don't import on the import options and then click reimport. This is oddly named, but will allow you to access the data freely for use with non translations.

TwistedTwigleg

@Lake said: Likewise, when a game is exported, how are such resources treated? Is everything in res:// packed into the binary regardless of whether it's known that a file is runtime loaded at some point?

I’m not sure for CSV files, but for things like textures and scripts, I believe they are only included if they are used into the .PCK file, whether this being that its used in a script or in a scene file. I think file extensions marked to be included are always included in the .PCK file regardless of whether they are used, but I’m not 100% positive.

I think if you export to a zip file, you can get an idea on what files will be included in the .PCK/binary file, as the zip should only have the export files.