Cogito Plugin Tab

[Phazorknight]

I'm playing around with the idea of adding a Cogito plug in tab to Godot that would give users access to some general settings and behaviors.
I think this would be useful for exposing some global variables, and adding some convenient settings in the future.
But it comes with the risk of enabling less experienced users to break stuff.

Here's a quick draft (with no functionality yet) of how I picture this would look like:

Would love to hear ideas and inputs, maybe this isn't even needed.

[ac-arcana]

I think centralizing the settings like this is a good idea for ease of use.

If new users break things they probably shouldn't be changing settings they don't understand.

[OvercastInteractive]

I agree with @ac-arcana, devs will benefit from quick access to ease-of-use, project-specific settings. The easier COGITO is to use the more people will make use of it. Including a link to the documentation would be nice as well.

It's something that could be kept quite simple and only be built up slowly as ideas for it bubble up in the discussions, with no expectation that it be exhaustive.

[Phazorknight]

Yeah, having a place to add to is one of the big advantages. Links to the repo and docs are definitely one of the first things I'll add.

[Phazorknight]

I've started to work on this and it's going pretty well so far.
The more I learn about proper plug-in development for Godot, the more I think we could improve the file structures of Cogito to make it easier to install (ie. keeping more files in the add-in dir and managing the autoloads via the plugin as well)

I'll probably create a new branch for this, so people can test it out / contribute, before adding this to main, as it will contain quite a few changes.

[Phazorknight]

Pushed this to a new branch called "developing" (sry, couldn't think of anything better in the moment) https://github.com/Phazorknight/Cogito/tree/developing

I did start moving some more files into the cogito_plugin dir to adhere more to the usual addon folder strucutre. Not sure if we can transplant all of Cogito into the dir but that might make it easier for users to install Cogito (especially from the assetlib).
Would need to find a way to also include the input_map settings.

[Phazorknight]

Created a PR for this + some plugin restructuring to be more Godot standard: #311

[Phazorknight]

This has been merged into main here: 8b524cd

Will leave discussion open for a bit for any ideas of what else to add into the Cogito plugin tab.

[Phazorknight]

So I've been struggling in getting this fully to work as intended.
I've noticed that the values in the fields don't get saved. I've tried to implement a custom resource to save this, but it seems like it's not working properly.

I've pushed my work so far in commit e421719 , if someone could take a look, I'd be grateful.

[Phazorknight]

Due to some isses, this idea is shelved for the time being, so I'm closing this thread.
We've implemented general Cogito Settings as a custom resource that can be edited in the Inspector though, so there's something similar currently implemented.