Interactive Tour: Get to Know the Godot Editor

GDTour allows you to learn interactively, step-by-step, directly inside the Godot Editor. In this first completely Free Tour, we help you break the ice with Godot by taking you on a quick guided walkthrough of the user interface and the main areas of the editor: the Viewport, the Scene dock, the Inspector dock, the Filesystem dock, and the Script editor.

What exactly is a GDTour?

GDTour is an educational plugin created by GDQuest. It turns the Godot Editor into an "interactive classroom". Instead of jumping back and forth between a tutorial and the editor, you learn directly inside Godot step-by-step.

Think of it like having an experienced Godot developer sitting next to you. The tour highlights specific parts of Godot's UI, giving you directions and allowing you to interact with the editor while learning. It even validates the steps you complete.

We designed this EdTech for our gamedev curriculum to create guided workshops with contextual links directly in the Godot editor to help you learn hands-on. On GDSchool, we use GDTours to help students learn how to create tilesets, tilemaps and more.

How to use GDTour

1. Download from the download section below
2. Import the project in Godot 4.5 or later:
   • Open the Godot Project Manager
   • Click Import at the top-left
   • Navigate to and select the downloaded ZIP file
   • Choose a folder on your computer to save the Godot project and click Import
3. Start the tour from the menu that appears after import
   • Click tour 101: The Godot Editor in the menu to select it and then click the START LEARNING button at the bottom to get started.

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faq/troubleshooting

The tour doesn't appear after importing

Make sure you're using Godot 4.5 or a later stable version of Godot (not a development or beta version). Development versions are unstable and can have issues that prevent existing Godot projects and plugins like GDTour from working. If you're still having trouble, report the issue to GDQuest and watch the run-through video included in the download section.

What's a ZIP file and why is the tour distributed this way?

A ZIP file is a compressed archive that contains multiple files and folders as a single downloadable file. It makes Godot projects easier to share and faster to download. Godot can import ZIP files directly and automatically extract all the project files to the location you choose.

When you download GDTour, you're downloading a ZIP file that contains the Godot project files needed to run the tour. After importing the file in Godot, you can start learning right away.

What exactly is a Godot project?

A Godot project is a collection of all the files, assets, code, and settings that make up a game or application made with Godot. It includes everything that Godot needs to run your game. GDTour itself is a special type of project that includes editor plugins.

How does GDTour work?

GDTour is an edtech developed by GDQuest. It runs as a Godot project with special editor plugins. When you open the project, the GDTour plugin activates and creates a virtual overlay that can locate and highlight many parts of Godot.

updates / code patches

• This tour requires Godot 4.5 or later. suggest an update
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