Set non exported values

[eldegende]

How to set/modify non-exported values, such as position or scale of an object in console?
I've tried setting values like current.player.position.x = 0, but it returns Expected '=' error

[Ark2000]

unfortunately you can not directly modify a non-object's property by a single expression, but you can achieve this by a wrapper function like this:

func set_anything(variable, property:String, val):
	if typeof(variable) == TYPE_VECTOR2:
		if property == "x":
			variable.x = val
		elif property == "y":
			variable.y = val
	return variable

now, you can change a vector2's property by

# a is a sprite2d
current.a.set("position", current.set_anything(current.a.position, "x", 100))

this is indeed inconvenient, need more work on command parser in the future work.

[eldegende]

Ok, thanks!

[pewcworrell]

I made a change to improve this. I replaced the checks for

d.usage == PROPERTY_USAGE_SCRIPT_VARIABLE | PROPERTY_USAGE_EDITOR | PROPERTY_USAGE_STORAGE

with

(d.usage == PROPERTY_USAGE_SCRIPT_VARIABLE | PROPERTY_USAGE_EDITOR | PROPERTY_USAGE_STORAGE) or (d.usage == PROPERTY_USAGE_SCRIPT_VARIABLE | PROPERTY_USAGE_NO_INSTANCE_STATE)

in exporter_2.gd and gdexprenv.gd. Then each property that I want to edit in game, but not in editor, I add the following export to:

@export_custom(PROPERTY_HINT_NONE, "", PROPERTY_USAGE_SCRIPT_VARIABLE | PROPERTY_USAGE_NO_INSTANCE_STATE)

Works like a charm.

[pewcworrell]

I may end up adjusting the flags if I find it's saving to a scene file, but I don't think it will since I have no way to change it from default and the default isn't changed. I also contemplated making use of a deprecated flag like PROPERTY_USAGE_DEFERRED_SET_RESOURCE, or making a custom hint_string, but this works fine. I searched the engine source and this is the only place I could find any usage of PROPERTY_USAGE_DEFERRED_SET_RESOURCE