Persist a scene with it's textures and materials (in-game level editor)

er453r

So I was experimenting with an in-game level editor using PackedScenes - but when someone in-game adds custom textures from disk to their custom level they are obviously not exported (only scene structure is) - and such a level can not be loaded by other players on their computers. Is there any way to tell Godot to pack "everything" - so a scene and all its dependencies can be passed between players?

cybereality

You would need to extract the texture data and save an image to disk. This code saves the viewport, but you can use the same concept with a texture by getting the data. https://godotengine.org/qa/64896/drawing-and-then-saving-a-png-file?show=80620#a80620

er453r

OK - I found out myself :) You need to pass ResourceSaver.FLAG_BUNDLE_RESOURCES flag :)

Entire code:

var scn = PackedScene.new()
scn.pack($Mesh24212)
ResourceSaver.save("/home/user/Downloads/mesh-comp.tscn", scn, ResourceSaver.FLAG_BUNDLE_RESOURCES)

But beware! There seems to be an error if you want to use the binary format .scn with compression - the texture is not persisted correctly :/