Cant get global position of my player anymore

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Godot Version

<4.2.1>

Question

Im trying to make some changes to my pathfinding since it seems to cause lag spikes. After changing the Pathfinding code i suddenly wasnt able to get the player position and now i get this error : “Invalid get index ‘global_position’ " (on base: ‘Nil’)”

extends CharacterBody2D

@export var speed = 100
@onready var player = get_tree().get_first_node_in_group("player")
@onready var anim = $AnimatedSprite2D
@onready var gamemode2 = get_node("/root/Gamemode2")
var KrabHealth = 100
var in_range = false
var AttackCooldown = true

var money = preload("res://Scenes/item_money.tscn")
var HealthBrew = preload("res://Scenes/health_brew.tscn")
signal enemy_died

@export var coin_amount = 1

@onready var navigation_agent: NavigationAgent2D = $NavigationAgent2D

var movement_speed: float = 200.0
var movement_target_position = player.global_position
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@onready var player = get_tree().get_first_node_in_group("player")
...
var movement_target_position = player.global_position

What’s happening is that you are setting the player variable to the player when _ready() is called, be setting the movement_target_position to the player variable’s global position before the player variable is set to the player. Because the variable is nil by default, the engine can’t find a property named global_position on a base instance of nil. Try putting the @onready export before defining movement_target_position.

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Its means your player is no more, have you do somewhere that player.queue_free()?

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Yeah, I wonder if you even need to initialize the variable there, or if that would make more sense in a function that’s updated every frame. Wouldn’t the player position be constantly changing?

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Yes. As far as I know, you can’t link variables, so declare the variable but don’t assign it. Then, only assign it in _process() or _physics_process as the first line.

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