Standalone godot resource (image/3d scenes) importer?

starryalley

Hi All,

I've been searching in here or godot github repo but I can't seem to find an answer.

My main use case of godot involves constantly downloading a large group of images and 3d (gltf) resources from some providers and then build a godot application with these 3d assets. The importing time (in godot tool/editor GUI) is sometimes more than 3 hours and the generated files in .import/ directory can be as huge as 20GB.

I wonder if there is a standalone resource importer for godot which is preferably a command line tool, so that I can run that command with a folder full of assets and it will simply go through the same godot importing process and generate .material, .import and .stex etc. I can then copy those into my godot project root and launch godot tool and can instantly work on it.

Thank you.

cybereality

It might be possible with a headless server (only works on Linux though). If you have a Linux server, you can run headless and I assume this would be possible, but I haven't looked into that far.

starryalley

Yes I believe it's very possible by extracting the resource importing part out of the godot tool's source and make it a standalone CLI program. It doesn't only run on Linux but on all supported platforms I think. I just wanna know if anyone has already done it?

starryalley

I still can't find if anyone has done it. I'll probably do it myself and I'll share when I complete so everyone else with similar need can benefit.

Megalomaniak

I doubt anyone has needed to do this previously, or if they have then it's probably remained as a in-house tool...

Calinou

The previous workflow where imported resources were directly stored in the project structure was removed in Godot 3.0. However, you should still be able to copy the .import/ directory (or specific files in it) across multiple projects, as long as you also copy the source file and keep the same name (and relative path) for them.