Stop Viewport Container from resizing and repositioning children other than the viewport

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Stop Viewport Container from resizing and repositioning children other than the viewport

Lake

Let's suppose I have reason to draw GUI to a Viewport, and then display it using Viewport Container. Now, I'd actually like to be able to control the position and size of these GUI elements myself. Viewport Container, being a container type, wants to control this itself. How do I get around this limitation?

TwistedTwigleg

Not sure if it would work right off, but you could use a TextureRect node instead of a Viewport container. You just need to get the ViewportTexture from the Viewport node and set it to the texture property of the TextureRect. Something like this:

$TextureRect.texture = $Viewport.get_texture()

I'm not 100% sure it would work around the limitation, but that would be what I would try to work around the container issue.

Lake

Thanks, it looks like that's working! I suppose because it's just a texture, I could also use it on a sprite.

TwistedTwigleg

@Lake said: Thanks, it looks like that's working! I suppose because it's just a texture, I could also use it on a sprite.

Awesome, I'm glad its working :smile: Yeah, it should work just fine on a Sprite as well, or any other node that uses a texture.