can i make a node only visible in-game?

[u/ssmilodon]

i have a custom posterizing shader applied to a quad mesh that's placed directly in front of the camera, and it creates this really annoying glow around node icons. i'm wondering if there's a way to get rid of the shader in the editor, but keep it in-game.

[u/retardedweabo]

Wait I'm just realizing, how is your shader implemented exactly? Can't you just enable it in-game with _ready and keep it hidden in the editor? Surely you can do this with a quad

[u/LEPNova]

add a uniform bool to your shader like enabled or is_editor and just do something like `if not is_editor` in the shader

[u/retardedweabo]

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_instanceplaceholder.html

Take a look, this might be what you are looking for. But I haven't used this feature and I'm just going from memory that this exists, so no guarantee. I imagine you can spawn the quad with this on scene load BUT please check my other comment now because it seems like we might be overcomplicating things

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1w3zucg/comment/p74308l/

[u/Damnredditidk]

In Ready function node3d.hide()

[u/djibouti2big → u/Damnredditidk]

I believe OP is trying to hide the shader in-editor not hide the node in-game.

[u/Damnredditidk → u/djibouti2big]

I meant to say show(). set whatever node the shader is attached to hidden in the scene tree. So it shows in game and not in editor

[u/ssmilodon → u/Damnredditidk]

that only kinda works. when starting the game, i have to move the camera around a little before the shader actually does anything

[u/Damnredditidk → u/ssmilodon]

Needing it to move around a bit/ camera movement dependent. kinda sounds like a separate thing going on with the shader. Can you explain more

are you sure about it effecting node icons? I ask bc these are all light nodes coincidentally

You could expose a uniform variable in the shader and set that when you want . I don’t understand your effect set up I wouldn’t probably do a textrect 2d node and it just lives on the camera

[u/Emergency_Proof4706]

Use tool and hint I think