Sort of closes godotengine/godot-proposals#1126.

This is pretty much another implementation of godotengine/godot#16483 (it's been suggested to implement this sort of class outside of Godot core), with a larger set of features:

• edit polygon-based shapes just like you edit Polygon2D (inheriting Godot's AbstractPolygon2DEditor)

• the shape can be automatically set from parent node (CollisionShape2D, CollisionPolygon2D, basically any node which have either shape, polygon, or points properties defined), so there's no need to set this via code to match those shapes:

  

• optionally use Godot's default color for collision shapes debugging and respect the Visible Collision Shapes debug option, if you need to display the shapes of custom-made physics/collision nodes (for instance, not using CollisionShape2D but setting the collision shapes via code), which also helps Collision shapes created through CollisionObject2D APIs are not visible godotengine/godot#36499.

Limitations

1. ConcavePolygonShape2D is not easy to edit because it uses segments over points. Create intermediate segments in ConcavePolygonShape2D. godotengine/godot#32979 is there to fix this inconsistency, but that's only 4.0 fix. So, please use ConvexPolygonShape2D for polygon editing (triangle, pentagons etc), though it's not limited to convex shapes, concave polygons can also be edited through this class. It may be possible to fix this locally in 3.2, but not high priority. added.

2. There's no textures support, and probably won't be because this class heavily relies on per-shape drawing implemented in Godot. Use Polygon2D node for that. But you may be able to apply textures via shaders anyways.

Example project

visual_shapes.zip (will be merged to Goost examples once this is merged).

You'll have to checkout the visual-shape-2d branch and compile the module to test this.

Feedback

Suggestions welcome, including the name of the class.