Managing editor features

Introduction

In certain situations, it may be desirable to limit what features can be used in the Godot editor. For example, a UI designer on a team who doesn't need to see 3D features, or an educator slowly introducing features to students. Godot has a built in system called "feature profiles" to do this.

With feature profiles, major features and nodes can be hidden from the editor. This only hides parts of the interface and does not actually remove support for these features, so scenes and scripts relying on those features will still work fine. This also means feature profiles are not an optimization technique. For information on how to optimize Godot see Performance.

Creating a profile

To manage editor features go to Editor > Manage Editor Features. This will open the Manage Editor Feature Profiles window. By default there will be no profile. Click on Create Profile and give it a name. You will then see a list of all the features in the Godot editor.

The first section allows major editor features to be removed, such as the 3D editor or scripting editor. Below the main features is every class and node in Godot, which can be disabled as well. Click on a node and all of its properties and options will be listed in the Extra Items box, these can all be individually disabled.

Sharing a profile

To share profiles between editors click on the Export button. Save the custom profile somewhere as a .profile file. To use this in another editor open that editor's Manage Editor Feature Profiles window and click import, then select the .profile file.

This process is potentially cumbersome however if a large amount of computers need custom profiles. As an alternative, you can enable self-contained mode for Godot, which allows putting all editor configuration in the same folder as the editor binary. See Self-contained mode for details.