Hello, Ok, I feel a bit like I am missing something very easy and simple.. I am trying to learn about networking in Godot, and I found what looks like a good video on Youtube, however, In the tutorial he simply states to "Go to Godot" from the command line, he uses command line: "C:\temp\godot\bin\godot.windows.tools.exe" which I am confused about, because the godot I have came with only an executable, and I placed it on the desktop for quick reference. I typed this in but got "The system cannot find the path specified" I tried to find answers online, and found the godot docs: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/editor/command_line_tutorial.html but this talks all about what godot can do in the command prompt but does NOT mention how to get it started? which leads me to believe it has to be very simple, alas, I am confused? I tried "c:\User\MyUser\Desktop\Godot_v3.2.1-stable_win64.exe" but all that does is open godot...? This is completely confusing me, does godot add an executable on runtime that i am not aware of?

Please any help is appreciated

The tutorial is just using the terminal to launch Godot, presumably so Godot's output is displayed on the terminal. The reason the name is different is because they are using a version of Godot built form source, rather than one of the officially pre-built releases.

If you know where your Godot executable is on your computer, you can use the following command in the terminal to launch it (replace "path here" with the path to the executable")

cd "path here"
./Godot_v3.2.1-stable_win64.exe

cd is to change the directory of the terminal, basically telling the terminal to go to the path you have given it. the ./Godot... tells the terminal to launch Godot. This will launch Godot like normal, but the output from Godot will be displayed on the terminal, even after you have selected a project from the project manager.

If you do not want/need the terminal to output the log, you can just run Godot by double clicking the executable, which will launch Godot on most operating systems.

wow, boy did i COMPLETELY look to much into that! The way i understood it was that there was some super secret software to specifically run a gdscript from the command line. Thank you.

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