Accessing Nodes from Array Created via get_children

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Godot Version

4.2.1stable

Question

Can’t for the life of me figure this one out. I’ve made an array called grid.

var grid:Array

No Issues. Then I use get_children to populate that array from the node running this whole script.

grid.fill(null)
for i in self.get_children():
    grid[#calculated_index] = i

I can print(grid) and it will give me Node references, but not the names corresponding to the hierarchy. It also won’t let me affect the nodes from the grid e.g.

grid[0].position.y += 5

Does nothing. I could easily do this in unity, but I’m trying to switch to Godot. Liking a lot of it, but this is so frustrating. Any help is appreciated.

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just use i to access the children

oh yeah, grid.append(i) first
either you fill the grid array with zeros first so then to access it like grid[#calculated_index] = i
or append like that

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I am filling null before. I edited the original post to show. I can’t really append though because I need it at a specific index. I’ve tried insert and this current = method. Same results.

The problem persists though that using
grid[0].position or .anything
still produces no results

4

then it’s possibly be you get children where the children havent yet added as child for this node

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what node type is the children btw?

6

All the children are Node3D.

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to get the node name, try:

for the_node in grid:
    print(the_node.name)
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I can do that, but if I do something like
node.name = 'garbage'
then print again. The node shows garbage as the name but it hasnt changed the name of the node in the hierarchy.
Seems like a reference issue. How can I get the children of a node into an array that I can use to later access those nodes and affect them?

9

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it was from “asd” name

get_children() already be giving you all the reference to all the children it has

10

at when you try to set the position value? at _ready()?

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_process(delta)