Godot4 w/ C# in VSCode setup

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I spent some time trying to set up my dev environement to be able to run and debug a Godot game written in .Net inside VSCode.
Here are the steps I took to setup:

  1. Install Godot Engine for .Net Link
  2. Install .Net SDK Link
  3. Go into VSCode and install the following extensions
    • .NET Install Tool
    • C#
    • C# Dev Kit
    • C# Tools for Godot
  4. In the Godot Engine, click on Project -> Project Settings, then on the sidebar under Application, click on Run and set a main scene.

Godot 4 project settings showing the main scene configuration under Application > Run

  1. In the Godot Engine, click on Editor -> Editor Settings, then scroll down on the sidebar, under Dotnet click on Editor, and change the external editor to VSCode.

Godot 4 editor settings showing external editor set to VSCode under Dotnet > Editor

  1. Open your project in VSCode, you will need to add two files in order to debug and run your game from VSCode.
    Create a .vscode folder, with two files, launch.json and tasks.json

launch.json:

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{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Launch",
            "type": "coreclr",
            "request": "launch",
            "preLaunchTask": "build",
            "program": "{env:GODOT4}",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "console": "internalConsole",
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "args": [
                "--path",
                "${workspaceRoot}"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Launch (Select Scene)",
            "type": "coreclr",
            "request": "launch",
            "preLaunchTask": "build",
            "program": "{env:GODOT4}",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "console": "internalConsole",
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "args": [
                "--path",
                "${workspaceRoot}",
                "${command:godot.csharp.getLaunchScene}"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Launch Editor",
            "type": "coreclr",
            "request": "launch",
            "preLaunchTask": "build",
            "program": "{env:GODOT4}",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "console": "internalConsole",
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "args": [
                "--path",
                "${workspaceRoot}",
                "--editor"
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Attach to Process",
            "type": "coreclr",
            "request": "attach"
        }
    ]
}

and tasks.json:

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{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "build",
            "command": "dotnet",
            "type": "shell",
            "args": [
                "build",
                "/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
                "/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
            ],
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": true
            },
            "presentation": {
                "reveal": "silent"
            },
            "problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
        }
    ]
}
  1. Create a new environment variable called GODOT4, with its value being the path to your godot executable.
    In my case, on a mac, this was the correct path /Users/eliranturgeman/Downloads/Godot_mono.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot

This might be a beginning of a “dev log” kind of a series, or a one time thing, nobody knows.