godot-ui-theming — Claude Code skill: Godot UI themes

What godot-ui-theming does

The skill lays out how UI theming works in Godot: Theme resources, StyleBoxFlat and StyleBoxTexture, per-node overrides and theme inheritance. It ships GDScript helpers — global_theme_manager.gd for dynamic switching and fallbacks, theme_swapper.gd for dark and light mode, ui_scale_manager.gd for DPI and resolution scaling, rtl_theme_mirroring.gd for right-to-left layouts.

A long section lists what to avoid. Calling StyleBoxFlat.new() in _ready() across many nodes creates one object per node instead of a shared resource. Hardcoded colors in a StyleBox drift from the palette; the skill points to theme.get_color() instead. To tint a single Control at runtime, duplicate the StyleBox first, otherwise the edit hits the shared theme resource. Touching theme resources inside _draw() or _process() forces layout recalculations, so that is off the table too.

A decision table maps goals to tools: app-wide look goes in project settings, a single differing Control uses add_theme_*_override, and button or panel subtypes use theme_type_variation. For something like a DangerButton, the advice is a Type Variation based on Button rather than a forked scene. All of this assumes a Godot project — the scripts and patterns do not carry over to another engine.