Area2d node's signal is delayed

[fiveEVEN]

Godot Version

4.3

Question

i connected a area2d node to my script (body_entered function) , it seems like it is 2 frames late, is it a mistake from my end or it is like this in the engine and if it is like this ,how to fix this?

[pauldrewett]

There could be a one frame lag due to the way Godot and other engines go through a processing order. If that single frame is important to you, you may want to approach this in a different way.

Here is a previous post about the topic:

Why are Area2D collisions triggered 1 frame late?

Godot Version 4.2 Question I created a project following a tutorial. It’s a 2D platformer where I have a Player (CharacterBody2D) and then some coins (Area2D). The player is being moved with move_and_slide() within _physics_process(delta) function. On the coin scene, I’ve set up the _on_body_entered(body) signal like this: func _on_body_entered(body): if body.is_in_group("Player"): body.add_score(1) queue_free() It works as expected, BUT, for some reason I can actually see the player ov…

And there are others too. I hope this helps.