Godot: Copy and paste nodes between projects/engine instances

[marcosbitetti]

I installed last 2.1.2-stable and some projects no more run (crash without any debug)!
I start to remount the project tree in a clear project, but it is very slow.
Is possible to make nodes work on clipboard?

[Zylann]

Sounds like you have two issues:

• There is a crash that has to be fixed, I suggest you open another issue with an example project
• Godot should be able to recognize data copied in the clipboard from another instance of itself

[bojidar-bg]

We might copy nodes and resources in a semi-.tscn data format, and then detect it on paste (to allow for pasting to a chat and then the other party copying it, etc. etc.)

[vitalfadeev]

Cool.
I want copy nodes between projects too.
Easy way.

[ivanskodje]

I would love to have this feature.

[Zylann]

Note: don't forget it must be undoable ;)

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[Zylann]

Copy/paste across instances of Godot would be handy.
It's also not possible to copy/paste nodes within the same instance across scenes, or even in the same scene.

[KoBeWi]

The PR that implemented it was rejected, because copying nodes outside current project is a "corner-case" and apparently can be done with a plugin. Also it makes node copy-paste feature much more complicated to do correctly.

So should this issue be closed as "WONTFIX"?

[akien-mga]

Yes, I think the feature asked here is not worth implementing.

Implementing copy/paste of node branches in a given instance is definitely a good thing, but across instances is a very rare use case I think. For this use case, it's simpler to save the node branch as a scene and then copy the scene file IMO.

If there are frequent use cases in favor of a cross-instance node duplication, we could reconsider, I'm not saying this is a hard no. But in this case I'd implement this as a custom "Copy scene/branch outside project" tool and not a copy/paste shared clipboard.