Best way to share a custom class between GDNative and GDScript?

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Best way to share a custom class between GDNative and GDScript?

ator-dev

I'm using C++ in my godot project to handle a fundamental component of the game (the pathfinding), and while I haven't had problems with it for a while I realised recently something was missing from my understanding of it.

Only a few days ago I learnt how to make custom classes in GDScript, and am now starting to integrate them into the project because of how useful they are (declaring a PathNode type for my pathfinding frontend, for example). I'm now wondering if there's a way to declare a class/struct in C++ and then have it globally available in my GDS scripts? That would make the communication between the pathfinding frontend and backend much easier and more efficient.

Thanks in advance, Dominic

sry295

your custom C++ class has to derive from Object or Reference to make it accessible via GDscript. see the following link for more info https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/workflow/best_practices/node_alternatives.html https://godotengine.org/qa/38876/how-to-return-reference-back-to-gdscript-from-custom-module