2D editor clear (background) color per scene ?

[DaveInDev]

Hi,
If you want to change the background color of the 2D editor, you can use "Project (menu) > Project Settings > General (tab) > Rendering > Environment > Default Clear Color".

But sometimes, it would be handy to change this background color per edited scene.

For example, when you design a Control that has a dark border, you would like to see it on a white background in the 2D editor to clearly see its limits.
But when working on a game scene, for example a character with light colors, you would like to have a black background in the 2D editor to work on it properly.

So it would be nice to be able to set a "Clear Color" per Node2D. It could be a property in the Node2D section of the inspector, close to the "editor description field", maybe called "Editor 2D Background Color" to be more understandable ?

What do you think about it ?
I do not have the godot expertise to realize if it would be hard to implement.

[AThousandShips]

A clear color per node seems a bit unnecessary, nodes don't clear anything themselves

This would probably be solved by having something similar to the WorldEnvironment but for 2D, that could allow for other similar features as in 3D controlling lighting etc.

[DaveInDev]

I read the doc, but I'm not used to godot 3D and cannot understand if this WorldEnvironment is used during game, or only in the editor3D ?
Because the feature I propose would only be used during the editing phase and won't have any effect ingame.
So wouldn't it be oversized to add a new Node to the scene, just for an "outgame" feature.

[AThousandShips]

It's used in the running game, and that's not really what the setting you're using is for either

But that is very different from what I thought this was about and I think that would be a pretty confusing feature

[Mickeon]

This can potentially be done with an addon:

• The rendering/environment/defaults/default_clear_color setting ends up being applied via RenderingServer.set_default_clear_color, anyway. So this can also be done manually with @tool scripts.
• Alternatively, there's no shame in adding a huge, locked (unable to be selected) ColorRect as the background color and attaching a script that calls queue_free as soon as the ColorRect is initialized.

[DaveInDev]

Hi, thanks for your help.

• for the first part, I do not really understand what it implies and if it can be done on the scene level? Can I add automatically an editable property to every scene, and change RenderingServer.set_default_clear_color, everytime the scene changes in the 2D editor ?
• for the second part, it's a very nice turnaround for the moment ! The only drawback : when you integrate this scene with a fake background in another scene, the background also appears in the parent scene, inducing some mess :-(