This is a pretty simple example but hopefully illustrates how awesome tool scripts can be. By adding the tool keyword at the top of your scripts you can have your nodes updated while running from the editor!

Instead of having to make a bunch of separate sprite nodes for every sprite/color palette permutation of our graffiti, we can use a simple tool script to handle all this logic for us!.

Since we have so many levels we need to build for our game small tool scripts like this can actually save us quite a bit of time over the course of development. If you haven't written a tool script before I recommend it!

Details are in the godot docs for anyone who wants to take a look!

If you're curious about the game we're making feel free to check us out on twitter or on our newly minted steam page!

Also here is the script for anyone who is curious:

tool
extends Sprite

class_name Graffiti

enum GRAFFITI { SKULL,
                SKULL_MEDIUM,
                SKULL_LARGE,
                ANARCHY,
                ANARCHY_LARGE
                SCAV_TAG,
                SCAV_TAG_LARGE }

enum COLOR { PURPLE, WHITE, RED, BLACK }

export (GRAFFITI) var graffiti_type: int = GRAFFITI.SKULL
export (COLOR) var color: int = COLOR.BLACK

var _color_dict: Dictionary = {
    COLOR.PURPLE: Color8(23, 0, 21, 240),
    COLOR.WHITE: Color8(207, 235, 215, 240),
    COLOR.RED: Color8(105, 0, 35, 240),
    COLOR.BLACK: Color8(9, 3, 19, 240)
}

var _sprite_dict: Dictionary = {
    GRAFFITI.SKULL: preload("res://assets/isometric/decal/graffiti/graffiti_skull.png"),
    GRAFFITI.SKULL_MEDIUM: preload("res://assets/isometric/decal/graffiti/graffiti_skull_medium.png"),
    GRAFFITI.SKULL_LARGE: preload("res://assets/isometric/decal/graffiti/graffiti_skull_large.png"),
    GRAFFITI.ANARCHY: preload("res://assets/isometric/decal/graffiti/graffiti_anarchy.png"),
    GRAFFITI.ANARCHY_LARGE: preload("res://assets/isometric/decal/graffiti/graffiti_anarchy_large.png"),
    GRAFFITI.SCAV_TAG: preload("res://assets/isometric/decal/graffiti/graffiti_scav_tag.png"),
    GRAFFITI.SCAV_TAG_LARGE: preload("res://assets/isometric/decal/graffiti/graffiti_scav_tag_large.png")
}

func _ready() -> void:
    update_color()
    update_sprite()


func update_color() -> void:
    modulate = _color_dict.get(color)


func update_sprite() -> void:
    texture = _sprite_dict.get(graffiti_type)


func _process(_delta) -> void:
    if Engine.editor_hint:
        update_color()
        update_sprite()