Godot Version v4.6.1.stable.official [14d19694e] Question I have made a class called enemy and to this I have added a function: func hit(damage): health -= damage print("enemy was hit, health is ",health) Inside another scene, e.g. projectile, I have the following: if ‘hit’ in collider…

[image] Jack_Carlyle: Inside another scene, e.g. projectile, I have the following: if ‘hit’ in collider: collider.hit(10) If you defined a class using class_name you can and should determine the collider’s type with keyword is if collider is Enemy: collider.hit(10) [image] Jack_Ca…

I’m going to guess that you’re shadowing the health variable of your parent class. Do you have warnings about shadowing variables? If that’s not the case then the best thing to do here is use the debugger. Set a breakpoint in your hit function and step through the code and check how health is getti…

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Apologies, I have now tried to format the code correctly but it still doesn’t have the colour-coding. I can’t seen an option in the post editor to do this, am I being stupid?

No warnings at all, can’t see anything about shadowing variables. The parent class doesn’t even have a health (I just use “var health” by itself). Yes, OK, will try the debugger, thank you.

There should be a little drop down menu that lets you select gdscript.

Please see the post I gave you, it explains to you how to format code properly. Even the default template, which you likely deleted, gave you an example on how to do that with syntax highlight.

On func hit damage and health are variables that are born on the start of the function and deleted on the end of it. When you call hit(damage, collider.health), it implicitly does: func hit(damage, health): var fake_health = health var fake_damage = damage fake_health -= fake damage print(…

OK, I think I understand why what I am trying to do won’t work, thank you. My next question then is, is it possible to do this so that different enemies can have different max health? You mentioned having this in the class script enemy.gd: @export var health := 100 But then I’m not sure how to ch…

@export variables can be changed in the editor, so if you give the enemy script @export var health: int = 100 you will see a “Health” property appear for the node in the inspector. This exported value can change from instance to instance without editing the code.

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Hey, please try and format your code properly so others are able to read it easier!