New to Godot, I have some quick questions on the editor (lemmy.world)

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Hello, as the title says, I am very new to Godot. I just finished following the 2D Game Tutorial, and I have a question on this part: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-demo-projects/blob/bf4d1038d623c355f3b49e613a2c9b686eebb312/2d/dodge_the_creeps/main.gd#L44

Basically, I had the idea to play around and try to give the mob a curved path, so I tried mob. in Godot's script editor looking for the completion engine to find me things similar to .linear_velocity only to find nothing, and also that linear_velocity didn't even show up as an autocomplete suggestion. No errors or warnings, and the code runs fine.

Question 1: Why does linear_velocity not get suggested? How can I change that, so I can have the editor help me learn the language and APIs?

Question 2: Unrelated to the above. I like Vim motions. Any suggestions on either:

Installing a Godot plugin to get Vim bindings?
Setting up Godot to use Neovim as my external editor?
Just using Neovim externally to edit my GD scripts?

Just looking for thoughts on what people use and like.

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[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As a very late follow up to this, I was able to combine the tutorial you provided plus this https://github.com/niscolas/nvim-godot/blob/bab4677b1bed9c2d90424dc810e2922e1aff119a/nvim_config/lua/package_manager_config.lua#L377 to get LSP and DAP working perfectly within my setup.

I can launch the game from nvim or from Godot, set breakpoints, use the repl. It all works!

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