Lesson 0 of BGE Python

Intro

We'll look at how else you can code with Range Engine/UPBGE.

Setup

Ways to setup to code in python and GLSL

• Using built-in text editor.
• Using an external text editor or an IDE.

Using built-in text editor

Open up the engine, create a new panel by dragging or switch the editor type by clicking on the editor type and clicking Text Editor or just press Shift + F11. Create a new text file by clicking on the "+" icon or hover your mouse on the text editor and press Ctrl + N.
That is where you starting writing your python code.

Pros

• Faster way to write code.

Cons

• Undoing your code globaly undoes the whole blender workflow, resulting in a crash.
• Autocompletes with exisiting keywords in your code, shows up only after writing some lines of code.

Using an external text editor or an IDE

Open up notepad, vscodium (vscode if don't care about privacy), sublime-text or any other text editor or an IDE, create a new .py file and save it. Open up the engine and open up the text editor, click on the folder icon and open the file which you saved using the text editor. Or you can do that with logic brick without opening your text file just by specifying your code name and module name.

Pros

• Auto-complete is available in almost every code editors.

  For vscode and vscodium, Range API autocomplete is available allowing users to write code faster.

• Undoing doesn't crash and text editor manages it in a smarter way.
• More control over keybinds and text related features.
• Better syntax highlighting.

Cons

• Opening a text file, saving it and switiing between the engine can be sligtly time consuming.