Import a scene as a MeshLibrary

[rcorre]

Godot version:

3.0.6

OS/device including version:

Linux 4.20.6-arch1-1-ARCH

Issue description:

My current meshlib/gridmap workflow looks like:

1. Edit meshlibrary in blender
2. Export using godot-blender-exporter
3. Open the .escn in godot
4. Click through the "Changes to this scene will not be saved" popup
5. Convert > MeshLibrary
6. Click OK in the dialog
7. Close the scene, as future imports seem to get messed up if it is still open

Suggestion:

Could we have an Import As: MeshLibrary option that would perform steps 3-7 automagically whenever the .escn is updated?

[slapin]

Totally confirm this but I think API for importer script would be better idea (but fancy importer GUI option would be nice too).
Your workflow prevents editing materials which might not be nice.

[Xenoamor]

Perhaps you should be able to link an output .meshlib to the scene that it was exported from. Then on that scene there'll be something like a "re-export to meshlib" button

Or more drastically a meshlib could be a root node and everything under it gets converted into it. You then use that scene as the resource for the gridmap

[aaronfranke]

Thanks for this proposal! I'm closing this as a duplicate of my proposal: godotengine/godot-proposals#7494

Currently, Godot hard-codes "scene or animation library". My proposal is about adding more types, including mesh, and MeshLibrary would be a natural extension of this, so we can consider it a part of the same proposal.