Godot Essentials

Godot Essentials is a project that makes C# development easier in Godot. This project allows enabling and disabling nodes virtually. This means methods such as Process, LateUpdate and FixedUpdate, will not run when the object is not visible, and therefore inactive. It is mainly a fork of: unity-godot-compat with many deletions and modifications.

Getting Started

Add the EssentialsAutoLoad.cs to a node in your global scene (singleton).
Create a new TestScript.cs
Write a simple "Hello Godot".

using Bigmonte.Essentials;

[Extended]
public class TestScript : Node
{
    private void Start()
    {
        GD.Print("Hello Godot");
    }

    private void OnEnable()
    {
   
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {

    }

}

Common methods

Some of the most commonly used methods of Unity are implemented. Such as:

void Awake () {}
void Start () {}
void Process () {} Previously called Update, but renamed to Process to avoid conflict with an Engine function called "Update".
void LateUpdate () {}
void OnEnable () {} requires the use of SetActive method
void OnDisable () {} requires the use of method node.SetActive (bool) or node.Destroy()

Coroutines

Example:

[Extended]
public class Ultra : Node
{
    private void Start()
    {
        this.StartCoroutine(MyCoroutine());
    }

    private IEnumerator MyCoroutine()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
        GD.Print("1" );
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
        GD.Print("2" );
    }

}

Notes

It is discouraged to change the Visible variable of Spatial or CanvasItem type nodes. Use for example node.SetActive(false); or this.SetActive(false);
It is discouraged to Use Free or QueueFree, use for example this.Destroy(); or node.Destroy(); for destroying objects.

Prerequisites

Godot 3+

Contributing

Feel free to point issues and help the development of this asset.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

Most of the intention of providing Unity portability was removed in this fork.
This extension relies on one singleton to work.
It may contain experimental/unsafe code