Godot Dash

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Overview ​

A screenshot of Godot Dash's editor in its default state. The edit panel is focused.

Godot Dash's editor is inspired by Blender and Godot's editor. It aims to have many QoL improvements compared to the editor of unmodded Geometry Dash.

The editor is divided in four areas:

  1. Viewport
  2. Bottom panel
  3. Inspector
  4. Menu bar

A graphic overlayed on the editor showing the different areas

Viewport ​

The viewport is where you edit the level by placing, removing and selecting objects.

  • Pan the viewport around by holding middle click[1]
  • Zoom in/out by scrolling up/down[2] or by pressing +/-

Render Modes ​

A screenshot of the render modes selector.

There are three render modes:

  • Object
  • Material
  • Rendered

You can change the default render mode in the settings.

Object ​

A screenshot of the object render mode.

Object disables enter effects, color channels, shaders, and makes the background and ground gray.

Material ​

A screenshot of the material render mode.

Material disables enter effects and shaders.

Rendered ​

A screenshot of the rendered render mode.

Rendered shows everything.

Bottom Panel ​

The selected tab on the bottom panel changes what happens when you click in the viewport. It can be resized by dragging its edge.

It has three tabs:

Place ​

A screenshot of the place tab.From left to right: blocks, slopes, hazards, interactables, triggers

The place tab lets you to place or remove objects in the viewport. You select objects by clicking on them in the palette, which is broken up into multiple categories.

Edit ​

A screenshot of the edit tab.

The edit tab lets you select objects, either one by one or with a selection box. Pressing Shift while selecting objects will add them to the current selection, while pressing Alt will remove them from the selection.

This tab contains a panel to apply transformations to the objects in the selection. These transformations are:

  • Movement, with the DPad-like buttons to move objects 1, 5 or 10 tiles (integer steps), or ½, ¼ or ⅛ tiles (fractional steps)
  • Rotation, with the buttons on the sides
  • Horizontal and vertical flip, with the buttons on the right side
  • Rotate, with the button in the middle of the buttons on the right
  • Scale, with the fourth button on the right
  • Move, with the button in the bottom-right corner

Selection Filters (not yet implemented) ​

The selection filters tab lets you set filters that narrow down what you can select in the viewport.

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Inspector ​

A screenshot of the inspector.The inspector with a single block selected

The inspector contains some panels that let you edit various properties of the selected objects, and an input to change the name of the selected object[3].

Some panels are only visible for certain types of objects. The panels are:

  1. Groups
  2. Transform
  3. Interactable
  4. Attributes
  5. Colors

Similarly to the bottom panel, you can resize the inspector by dragging its edge.

The menu bar regroups actions that aren't done often or options that don't fit into the bottom panel or the inspector. The level settings can be reached from 3.

  1. The cursor will wrap around the screen, unlike in Geometry Dash. ↩︎

  2. This behaviour is currently hardcoded but might become customizable in the future (e.g. ctrl + scroll to zoom). ↩︎

  3. This only works if there's only one object selected. Otherwise, it will be uneditable and display the selected object count. ↩︎