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Setting up

Setting up using IntelliJ IDEA project wizard

The easiest way to setup a new project is via IntelliJ's project wizard (you need to install our IntelliJ IDEA plugin).

In IntelliJ IDEA click New Project and select Godot Kotlin JVM. Fill up the fields and click Next when you are done.

Wizard 1

Select the directory where your project will be created and click Finish.

Wizard 2

IntelliJ IDEA should open up your project and if you wait for a bit you should see a toast notification Load Gradle Project in the lower right of the window. Click that and you are ready to go!

Wizard 3

Setting up manually

If you do not want to use our IntelliJ IDEA plugin you can follow these steps to setup a project.

Note

The following steps requires Gradle to be installed, checkout their website for installation instructions.

Firstly, you need to setup a gradle wrapper. The wrapper will ensure that anyone who wants to build your project from source will use the same gradle version.

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fsutil file createnew build.gradle.kts 0
fsutil file createnew gradle.properties 0
fsutil file createnew settings.gradle.kts 0
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touch build.gradle.kts gradle.properties settings.gradle.kts

The above command will create three files, which will be empty for now.

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gradle wrapper --gradle-version=6.8

You should have the wrapper setup after running the command above. Up next is setting up the gradle build. Open up build.gradle.kts and paste the following:

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plugins {
    kotlin("jvm") version "$kotlinVersion"
    id("com.utopia-rise.godot-kotlin-jvm") version "$godotKotlinVersion"
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

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Replace $kotlinVersion and $godotkotlinVersion to the appropriate version you want to use.

The snippet above uses our gradle plugin. Without the plugin, you will have to manually define all needed dependencies, manually register your classes, signals, properties, functions and manually create and copy the needed jar's to the appropriate locations.