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CloneDeath / MagicaVoxel-Importer-with-Extensions

A Godot plugin to import MagicaVoxel .vox files as meshes.
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Plugin doesn't show in 3.1 addons folder #7

Closed TomWor closed 4 years ago

TomWor commented 4 years ago

Hi, I activated the plugin in the project settings, just as been the case in another issue that was closed earlier here, but still the plugin seems not to be found by Godot. Am I missing something? Is there a menu entry somewhere that could confirm it's activation? And why wouldn't it show in the file explorer?

TomWor commented 4 years ago

I got it to work, and I just found out about the .gdignore file, which keeps Godot from parsing this directory.

CloneDeath commented 4 years ago

Yup. That was intentional. You don't need to access any files in there (additionally, all files for the plugin are self-contained in there), so I added the .gdignore for the user, so it doesn't unnecessarily clutter their project files in godot.

Any configuration you may want to do is in the import tab, so there really is no reason to poke around in there.

Lastly, if you do want them to show up (for whatever reason, maybe you're working on a PR to improve the plugin), you can simply uncheck (or delete) the .gdignore

(Just wanted to give some context onto why I did this, in case someone else stumbles upon this ticket)

TomWor commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the clarification! I was a bit confused that the .gdignore means the files get ignored by the editor for inclusion in the filetree yet they DO get parsed for the addons functionality. But all is good now, thanks.