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VisualScript as a Godot Engine c++ module
https://github.com/godotengine/godot-visual-script

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VisualScript as a Godot Engine c++ module

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-visual-script
• Owner: godotengine
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-08-23T19:05:34.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-12T15:50:44.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-29T03:46:04.892Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C++
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• Size: 6.46 MB
• Stars: 120
• Watchers: 22
• Forks: 22
• Open Issues: 48
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# VisualScript module for Godot

This repository contains the implementation of the "VisualScript" visual

scripting language which used to be included directly in

[Godot Engine](https://godotengine.org/) from Godot 3.0 until its removal in

Godot 4.0.

[See this blog post](https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-will-discontinue-visual-scripting)

for details on why the VisualScript implementation was removed from Godot 4.0.

This repository has two aims:

- Initially, this is a straight copy of the `modules/visual_script/` folder in

  the Godot source tree, and can still be compiled as such to restore this

  functionality in Godot 4.0.

- Ideally, if there is community interest and participation, we would like this

  module (which needs to be compiled together with the engine in a custom build)

  converted to use GDExtension via [godot-cpp](https://github.com/godotengine/godot-cpp),

  allowing it to be distributed as a compiled library that can add this

  functionality back to a stock Godot build. As an extension, this feature could

  also evolved more freely, attracting new contributors with innovative ideas,

  and thus become a better visual scripting solution than what we had in the

  Godot 3.x era.

## Compiling

For now this is still a C++ module, so it needs to be compiled together with

Godot as a custom build.

[See the Godot documentation](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/development/compiling/)

for instructions on how to compile the engine.

To add this module, it should be cloned or copied as the `modules/visual_script/`

folder in the Godot source tree.

For example:

```

git clone https://github.com/godotengine/godot

cd godot/modules

git clone https://github.com/godotengine/godot-visual-script visual_script

cd ..

scons

```

Note that a custom `visual_script` name is given for this repository's clone, so

that the final structure looks like `modules/visual_script/` and not

`modules/godot-visual-script/`.

## Contributing

If you're interested in working on porting this C++ module to GDExtension,

please join the `#scripting` (to discuss VisualScript) and `#gdextension` (to

discuss GDExtension and `godot-cpp`) on the [Godot Contributors Chat](https://chat.godotengine.org).