Godot keeps preloading stuff within folders having .gdignore

[Zylann]

Godot 3.1 master 464d599
Windows 10 64 bits

I added a .gdignore to a folder in my project, however Godot keeps loading all the stuff in it on editor startup:

Repro:

1. Open a project in the editor (use -v for verbose output)
2. Close the project
3. Add a .gdignore in a folder
4. Open the project again: files are still preloaded

[groud]

I'm not sure this is how .gdignore is meant to be used. If it works like .gitignore you need a single.gdignore at the root and must specify, one per line, the folders you want to be ignored.

~~Edit : I mean writing into the .gdignore file~

Edit2: I was wrong

[Zylann]

The way it was currently done is that all folders that have .gdignore in it should be ignored by the resource loader.

[eon-s]

Is that ignore file for the loader or the importer? I think it does not auto import but can load and probably import manually too.

[Zylann]

@eon-s it should be both. Initially it was needed because Godot was trying to import .obj files which were actually compilation binaries and then choke on them, but more generally it's a way to have folders being ignored regarding any resource management (though file API should still work).
In that case I think Godot tries to load that stuff because a plugin is referencing them, so perhaps it's not as bad as I thought.

[vnen]

I don't think this is a bug. If you are preloading things from somewhere, it doesn't matter where those things are. I mean, if you are trying to load a resource A and this resource depends on the resource B that is in an ignored folder, it should just load both. If the loading of B fails, this will cascade and fail A too, which is probably not what you want.

The .gdignore file is only meant for the importer. Native resources won't be affected.

[Zylann]

@vnen wasn't it for the exporter as well? I would find awkward to have to tell the editor twice in two different ways to ignore the same folder... but that would be another issue

[KoBeWi]

Can anyone still reproduce this bug in Godot 3.2.1 or any later release (e.g. 3.2.2-rc2)?

If yes, please ensure that an up-to-date Minimal Reproduction Project (MRP) is included in this report (a MRP is a zipped Godot project with the minimal elements necessary to reliably trigger the bug). You can upload ZIP files in an issue comment with a drag and drop.

btw, according to documentation, files in ignored folders can't be loaded with load and preload, so dependencies should probably fail too, for consistency.

[Zylann]

I tried an MRP, could not reproduce this.
There is something a bit suspicious in my screenshot in the first post: my plugin was enabled and was probably the one loading all that stuff.

[fire]

Closing since Zylann cannot reproduce.

[boruok]

can any else reproduce this? i've putted .gdignore in /bin/screenshots/.gdignore and godot generates .import files, also textures appears in filesystem.
EDIT: just re-opened godot, folder now ignores

[KoBeWi]

@boruok See #33314