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Allow displaying 2D and 3D main screens at the same time in split view #6713

Open Hanprogramer opened 1 year ago

Hanprogramer commented 1 year ago

Describe the project you are working on

A 3D RPG Top-down View. I'm using this feature to develop the inventory.

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

Currently in the editor the splitting part is already implemented, but it can't be one for 2D and one for 3D. This is especially useful for me because I have to position my camera in a SubViewport (GD4) but I can't see it directly. image image

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

The feature is to allow one side of the panel to display 2D and the other to display 3D. I know this might require a lot of work to implement.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

My idea is this: image

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

I don't think so. Since this requires editing almost a very core part of the editor.

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

This is related to the core of the editor and would be very hard to implement via an asset library/addons

yosoyfreeman commented 1 year ago

Now that we are talking about this, being able to have 3D + Script editor would be super nice for working with tool scripts or procedurally generated content.

Hanprogramer commented 1 year ago

Now that we are talking about this, being able to have 3D + Script editor would be super nice for working with tool scripts or procedurally generated content.

Or even better, instead of having the top buttons (3D, 2D, Scripts, Assets) why not just tabs? So every tab will be based on what it's opened. For example the scenes will open a scene editor which have a toggle for 2D and 3D. A script tab will be used to edit scripts per tab. Assets manager will be a separate tabs as well. This opens up so many possibilities (for example docking) but requires a big change to the editor and how it works but i think it is very worth to do.

Hanprogramer commented 1 year ago

Oh and on top of this issue, I think it's also better to add a button to display the viewports, like how the camera has "preview" button, maybe somehow viewports can have them especially if they own 3D world on their own.

yosoyfreeman commented 1 year ago

Yeah, i'm so used to other engines that i forgot i can just play the game in a standalone window and the code and everything updates. I think godot has this fixed by design

Meta-Ben commented 7 months ago

Dunno if it can help you but I made this little plugin recently its my first one and I also made a proposal about that but it could be made by plugin way I think

here is the link : https://github.com/Amealky/Previewer_2D_3D