Keep original files when exporting instead of .import files

GForce

Hi, I am making a game where I would like to have some of the .png and .ogg files to not be imported, and when exporting to android iOS and html5, the original files will be exported along.

Some images and sounds are part of the layout of the game and I can use them imported. Some images and sounds are part of the content of the game and I would like to use the original files.

How could I achieve this?

Calinou

After selecting a resource in the FileSystem dock, you can change its import type to Keep (No Import) in the Import dock. Keep in mind you will have to load in the resource manually if you wish to display it in the project somehow.

cybereality

Interesting. Can you explain what this achieves @GForce ?

GForce

If I have to do that with every resource manually, it's not very practical. And adding .gdignore results in those resources also not being exported, so that doesn't work.

What I wanted to achieve is: I have content that comes with the game and content that the user can download later on. The downloadable content has no .import files, so I read the poolbytearrays from the png and ogg files and create images and sounds from that. I wanted to use the same function for handling the pre-installed content in res://. But maybe it is then better to write a different function for loading the resources in res://