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Interacting with Godot

SwiftGodot​

An imporant concept to understand: GodotVision uses the SwiftGodot library and your app has access to all of SwiftGodot's functionality via a simple import SwiftGodot in your codebase. This means you can, for example manipulate Nodes, call any functions, emit signals, change properties, and more.

Example: calling a gdscript method from Swift​

From GodotVisionCoordinator you can get the active SceneTree via its sceneTree property. From the SceneTree you can get its root Node. On a Node you can use the findChild method with a recursive: true argument to find a specific Node in your scene hierarchy.

func triggerGodotFunction(godotVision: GodotVisionCoordinator) {
    guard let rootNode = godotVision.sceneTree?.root else {
        print("No root node.")
        return
    }

    guard let playerRootNode = rootNode.findChild(pattern: "PlayerRoot", recursive: true) else {
        print("Could not find node named 'PlayerRoot')
        return
    }

    playerRootNode.call(method: "reset", arguments: 1) // TODO

}