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Godot Engine Game Development Projects

You're reading from   Godot Engine Game Development Projects Build five cross-platform 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831505
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Using Godot's documentation

Learning Godot's API can seem overwhelming at first. How can you learn all the different nodes, and the properties and methods each one contains? Fortunately, Godot's built-in documentation is there to help you. Develop the habit of using it often: it will help you find things when you're learning, but it's also a great way to quickly look up a method or property for reference once you know your way around.

When you are in the Script tab of the editor, you'll see the following buttons in the upper-right corner:

The Online Docs button will open the documentation website in your browser. If you have a multimonitor setup, it can be very useful to keep the API reference open on one side for quick reference while you're working in Godot.

The other two buttons allow you to view the documentation directly in the Godot editor...

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