Updating view when levels where changed?

[sommerper]

Hi!

After having made some changes in a level in ldtk I have to close the scene in Godot an open it again to see the changes.

Is there a way to make that happen automatically?

I'm using Godot 4.4 beta 1

Thanks!

[sourencho]

Have you tried reloading the scene?

[ Reload Saved Scene] , you can open Editor Settings - Shortcuts and search it then assign [ alt + R ] to it

[sommerper]

Yes. But that doesn’t happen automatically. Ldtk supports executing a script when a level is saved. Maybe it’s possible to trigger godot into reloading the assets somehow. I believe the unity plunging for ldtk does something similar.

[heygleeson]

This should be the default behaviour. Godot should automatically detect file changes and trigger a reimport.

What versions of Godot/godot-ldtk-importer are you using?

[sommerper]

Hmm... maybe it's a Godot issue then

I'm using ldtk 2.0.1
and now Godot 4.4.beta3

As you can see here I have changed the tileset and the level layout in ldtk and saved it. When returning to Godot it does say that it imports the level. But no change has happened.

Pressing Alt R doesn't do anything but closing the level and opening it again shows the updated level. Although not the correct tileset.

Maybe it has something to do with the way Godot keeps track of files with the new UID system?

[heygleeson]

Ah, okay! I have been warned out there being issues with the Godot 4.4 beta! I will try to find some time to look into this.

[heygleeson]

After some experimenting in 4.4, it seems like this is related to Godot's cache of imported scenes (the LDTK World scene is saved in /.godot/, Level scenes get saved in the project folder when using "Pack Levels".)

The only consistent solution I could find is to not have any scenes open that have the LDTK World scene as a parent/child node. Having just the LDTK Scene open will automatically refresh/reload on reimport without issues.

So for now - keybind to "Reload Saved Scene" to force a refresh.

Definitely a weird issue - it could be that the importer's approach to creating Level Scenes is missing detail to say that it technically belongs to an imported resource.

If anyone has more insight on this, please share.

[sourencho]

Thanks for looking into this!
What do you mean by keybind?

[heygleeson]

Your suggestion, actually!

[Reload Saved Scene] , you can open Editor Settings - Shortcuts and search it then assign [ alt + R ] to it