tutorials/best_practices/project_organization

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tutorials/best_practices/project_organization

Introduction: Since Godot has no restrictions on project structure or filesystem usage, organizing files when learning the engine can seem challenging. This tutorial suggests a workflow which shoul...

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/best_practices/project_organization.html

[RedpingDev]

Do You have best case!? I wonder about that.

[Calinou]

What do you mean by "best case"?

[RedpingDev]

Ah~ I was wondering if you had an example of actually splitting a folder into good and bad cases, like the example you posted in the code style. I've already got my question answered, but I think it would be more informative to write a document comparing the cases. good luck!

[LethargicDeveloper]

In the Project Settings menu the default Directory Naming Convention is kabab-case, yet here, the recommendation is to use snake_case for directories. Is there a reason for this? Is the project setting default outdated or wrong?

[Calinou]

The Directory Naming Convention setting is only used to define project folders when creating a project in the project manager. It's not used anywhere else in the editor, so the recommendation to use snake_case within the project still applies.

The reason this is done is that it's a common convention for Git repository names to use kebab-case, but snake_case is perfectly valid too.

[douglaslassance]

Would be nice if the content of .gdignore was not ignored.

[Calinou]

This is being tracked in godotengine/godot-proposals#2798.

[jauntyjocularjay]

It looks like adding the .gdignore file to a folder is not as easy as it seems. I use the same folder structure for my dabblings with Unity. I have placed my Unity files in their own folder with .gdignore, but Godot still tries to build the CS files contained within regardless.

[Calinou]

.cs files are not imported resources. They are also handled by the .NET toolchain anyway, which has no knowledge of .gdignore files and other Godot specifics. Therefore, it's expected that .gdignore files don't affect whether .cs files are compiled.

I believe you should be able to modify the .sln file to exclude the folder containing your Unity project. This way, it should avoid recompiling it.