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Now if I know what this was beyond a brand of Chocolate or an intentionally boring play, I'd be set.

Nice.

Yeah I don't like the idea of so many extra files.

I see. I'd guess .uids won't show in the Godot file manager, and will be handled implicitly like .imports. And yeah, there's an extra step of having to move them when moving scripts externally, but we couldn't do it reliably at all before. The tradeoff seems worth it, but I get the inconvenience

Better than an IED, tho

Git mostly manages to track moves without the uid files. Perhaps there could be some helper screen to ask in case the move is ambiguous or incorporates some change. Stuff could be running in the background on a project open to verify the refs. Whatever else :)

I think currently you might need to manually re-save all scenes. But I agree we should provide a conversion tool that does it for you. I've actually long wanted to just have a "Re-save all scenes and resources" option for doing such clean version upgrades when we change small details.

GO GOdot!

After spending a whole day trying to fix broken discrepancies while supposed to be doing a game jam the letters UID are the last thing I want to see

Will this allow for cyclic reference chains in code/editor? Eg can we use this to export a resource UID var called foo, and then in editor point resource A's foo at resource B, and B's foo back at resource A? Having to map things centrally via strings thus far has felt pretty fragile/awkward 😅

(2/2) I solved the problem by deleting the UID files and the ".godot" folder on both machines. There is a UID cache file in the ".godot" folder, it should be enough to delete that file instead of the whole ".godot" folder.

I really do not like the idea of hundreds of extra files everywhere when I look through my projects. I would rather metadata be stored in a metadata directory or single metadata file so when I'm browsing my files I don't have to look at all that extra cruft.

I wonder if the uid changes could also fix uids just randomly changing during a project. They consistently create minor merge conflicts, it's pretty annoying.

As someone who changes file structure more often than their underwear, I'm really excited for this! Great work guys

love the simplicity

Yes.

It could, but if you rename it to `apple_counter.gd`, it would still have a `uid://banana_counter_xyz123` that might confused you. But otherwise yeah, that could be done I suppose. UIDs would become pretty lengthy which might also not be super popular, I don't know.

You could generate names like `uid://afraid_suricata` or `uid://tormented_panda` :P

Make an asset settings window where all assets can be assigned aliases. Seeing/writing res:// in the code is annoying, and uid:// is even more annoying.

The issue there is you keep an extra reference to resources you might not be needing to have loaded in anymore. If I could reference using an alias I think that would be neat. "uid://my_alias" would be good, they'd still need to be unique

Another possibility could be to simply allow the user to right click the asset file and have a simple dialog where they could assign an alias.

My reflexive first pass at this design would be to have a full list of assets and their associated UIDs that the user could scroll thru and assign aliases. This could be in project settings or in a new “main” tab at the center top of the ui, perhaps next to asset lib.

Wonder Woman and now this? What a lady!

Code was always a hard subject for me 😅

Very good! Glad to use it, refactoring is such a pain right now