A complete set of tools to code games with the Godot game engine in Visual Studio Code.

Features

The plug-in comes with a wealth of features to make your programming experience as comfortable as possible

• Syntax highlighting for the GDscript language
• Syntax highlighting for the tscn and tres scene formats
• Function definitions and documentation on hover
• Rich auto completion
• Static code validation
• Open projects and scenes in Godot from VScode
• Ctrl click on a variable or method call to jump to its definition
• Full documentation supported with API of godot engine

Available commands

The plug-ins adds a few entries to the command palette

• Update Workspace Symbols
• Run workspace as godot project
• Open workspace with godot editor
• Run current scene

Settings

If you like this plugin you can set VSCode as your default script editor with following steps:

1. Open editor settings
2. Select Text Editor / External
3. Check the Use External Editor box with mouse click
4. Fill Exec Path to the path of your Visial Studio Code
5. Fill Exec Flags with {project} --goto {file}:{line}:{col}

You can use the following settings to setup the Godot Tools:

• GodotTools.godotVersion: The godot version of your project
• GodotTools.editorPath: An absolute path pointing at the Godot Editor executable file. Required to run the project and test scenes from VScode
• GodotTools.workspaceDocumentWithMarkdown: Control the documentations of workspace symbols should be rendered as plain text or html from markdown
• GodotTools.ignoreIndentedVars: Parse variables defined after indent of not
• GodotTools.parseTextScene: Parse scene files with extention ends with tscn
• GodotTools.completeNodePath: Show node pathes of of workspace in the code completion

Issues and contributions

The Godot Tools and the go to engine modules are all hosted on GitHub. Feel free to open issues there and create pull requests anytime.

Release Notes

0.2.9

• Add configuration GodotTools.completeNodePath to switch is complete node pathes
• Enhanced syntax highlight with GDScript
• Enhanced code completion with GDScript

0.2.8

• Add godot 3.0 project support with configuration GodotTools.parseTextScene >= 3
• Add configuration GodotTools.parseTextScene to allow disable node path parsing
• Remove GodotTools.editorServerPort configuration

0.2.7

• Fix some error with syntax checking
• Add symbol support for enumerations
• Remove key bindings for F5~F8 as it might be confict with other functionalities of VSCode
  • You can bind the key bindings back by add following configurations

  {
      "command": "godot.runWorkspace",
      "key": "F5"
  },
  {
      "command": "godot.runCurrentScene",
      "key": "F6"
  },
  {
      "command": "godot.openWithEditor",
      "key": "F7"
  },
  {
      "command": "godot.updateWorkspaceSymbols",
      "key": "F8"
  }
  

  For more references please ready keybindings

Full change log

TODOS:

• Convert official BBCode documentation into Markdown and render it to HTML with documentation previewer pages
• Add mermaid support with documentation
• Undefine variable checking