Godot Engine useful tips

Editor

Below are several useful shortcuts to navigate in the editor:

• [Mouse wheel] Can be used to zoom in or out in the scene.
• [Middle mouse button] When pressed and mouse is dragged, allows to rotate around the current target.
• [Shift]+[Middle mouse button] When pressed and mouse is dragged, pan the camera up, down, left or right.
• [Right mouse button] When pressed and mouse is dragged, rotate the camera in place.
• [Shift]+[F] To toggle between the free navigation mode and the normal mode. In the free navigation mode, you can navigate in the scene with the [W][A][S][D] keys and the mouse.

How to remove the read-only limitation on imported assets

When a model or a scene is imported from a glTF asset, it is added as a read-only asset in the scene. To allow this asset to be modified from within Godot, right-click it in the scene hierarchy and select the Make Local option.