Hi everyone,

I’m working on a mod that would act as a collection of small mini-games. Each mini-game would either add or remove time to the lock and maybe do user-configured actions.

I’m unsure about the best overall structure for this:

• One idea is to have a central GameManager mod, with each mini-game implemented as its own separate mod. If I go this route, what’s the recommended way for mods to communicate with each other?
• Alternatively, is it possible to include multiple .tscn scenes within a single mod and manage them from there?

If anyone has a small example or can point me in the right direction for either approach, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

PS: I plan to release the mod as soon as possible. Right now I have a dice game working, but I'd like to add more (Wheel of fortune, puzzle, etc)

I kind of figure out how to do what I wanted (still need more testing) and that involved actually learning how Godot works (especially parenting between scenes -not sure that's the exact term). So yeah, total godot noob here :p 

When importing the mod, it kind of works but I ran into another issue... The main/root scene gui is imported correctly but all the child scenes are out of the layout and I can't find a way to fix it.

Here's a screenshot with some comments:

Here's the very basic code:

extends Node
func _ready() -> void:
    # adding label by code
    var mod_label = Label.new()
    mod_label.text = "Root Runtime label:"
    get_meta("ui_node").add_child(mod_label)
    # adding the mod to HS
    var ui_mod_container = get_meta("ui_node")
    var ui_mod_node = $VBoxContainer
    remove_child(ui_mod_node)
    ui_mod_container.add_child(ui_mod_node)

Here's how it's structured:

Is it something that I'm doing wrong or...? Any help's welcome :)

EDIT

I'm also getting this message in the console when importing the mod:

WARNING: res://CUSTOM_DATA/modsdev/RootTest.mod.tscn:3 - ext_resource, invalid UID: uid://db0oem1hjj223 - using text path instead: res://CUSTOM_DATA/modsdev/ChildTest1.tscn

A third issue I have is signaling from a child scene output this error in the console:

ERROR: In Object of type 'Control': Attempt to connect nonexistent signal 'signal_from_child' to callable 'Node::_on_child_test_1_signal_from_child'.

That same code works without issue in Godot.

And printing from a child scene also doesn't work...

What am I doing wrong?

Your ChildTest1 scene is stored in another .tscn file (ChildTest1.tscn) than RootTest.mod.tscn. This means that RootTest will try to load  res://CUSTOM_DATA/modsdev/ChildTest1.tscn (which work in Godot because the editor consider that every files of the project are inside res://) but Hotscreen can't find it with this name.

Solution 1 : if you can, all your mod should be 1 single scene. In your example, you can probably delete ChildTest1, go to the ChildTest1 scene, copy all the scene tree, and paste it under VBoxContainer in RootTest scene.

Solution 2 : you can load your other .tscn files in your script (that what my mods example add Collection and add Filter do) Like this :

var scene_for_mod = load("./CUSTOM_DATA/modsdev/ChildTest1.tscn")  # there is no res:// so Hotscreen knows its a file path
$VBoxContainer.add_child(scene_for_mod.instantiate())