Document reading an exported property's values early on in GDScript exports #11308
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- See tutorials/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_exports godot-docs-user-notes#143 (comment).
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| If you read an exported variable's value in :ref:`_init() <class_Object_private_method__init>`, | ||
| it will return the default value specified in the export annotation instead of the value | ||
| that was set in the inspector. This is because the inspector only sets the value after |
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The inspector never really sets any values here, so this is arguably misleading. The value is assigned by loading the file itself, unrelated to the editor
| If you read an exported variable's value in :ref:`_init() <class_Object_private_method__init>`, | ||
| it will return the default value specified in the export annotation instead of the value | ||
| that was set in the inspector. This is because the inspector only sets the value after | ||
| the object is constructed. To get the value set in the inspector, you need |
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