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Christos Rymenidis
Christos Rymenidis

Reputation: 13

GODOT Can not access Packedscene's child from another Node using Signals or Getnode

So I want to set values, like scale, of a packedscene from the editor from another scene. I want "Candlestick" to set the scale of "Top" which is within "Body Hollow" (see below).

The problem is when I run "Body Hollow" scene everything works perfect. But, when I run "Candlestick" it just doesn't work. I have tried using $Node instead of Signals it grabs the "Body Hollow" node, but then I get a null error on calling body_hollow.scale_x (ofcourse I slighty change the code). The point is it acts as if "Top" does not exist!

I am trying to find an answer to such a simple problem and yet I can not.

Please help me find a solution. I am going crazy! Thank you in advance!

Handlestick Tree Body Hollow Tree

# Attach this to Candlestick
class_name Candlestick
extends Node2D

@export var body_hollow: BodyHollow

func _ready():
  print("Candlestick is running...")

func _process(_delta):
  if Input.is_mouse_button_pressed(MOUSE_BUTTON_LEFT):
    body_hollow.scale_x(200)

# Attach this to "Body Hollow"
class_name BodyHollow
extends Node2D

signal scale_changed(_x: float)

func scale_x(_x: float) -> void:
  scale_changed.emit(_x)

func _process(_delta):
  if Input.is_mouse_button_pressed(MOUSE_BUTTON_RIGHT):
    scale_x(200)

# Attach this to "Top"
class_name BodyHollowHandles
extends Sprite2D

# Connect this "scale_changed" signal from "Body Hollow"
func _on_body_hollow_scale_changed(_x):
  scale.x = _x
  scale.y = _x

Upvotes: 1

Views: 404

Answers (2)

M. R. M.
M. R. M.

Reputation: 653

From the images, It doesn't seem that you've added an instanced of the Body Hollow scene into your tree rather you've added the node of class BodyHollow

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What's the difference?
I'm guessing you added the BodyHollow from the 'Create New Node' menu as such

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Whereas you should have been dragging and dropping the BodyHollow.tscn scene from the file system into your tree as such:

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Upvotes: 0

Cassiano
Cassiano

Reputation: 126

It seems the issue comes from this line:

@export var body_hollow: BodyHollow

This line by itself does nothing. It will just declare an empty variable. You need to get the child node itself.

Changing this line to:

@onready var body_hollow: BodyHollow = get_node("Body Hollow")

should solve the issue.

Upvotes: 0

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