Delete a PackedScene and create a new one

[sven]

Godot Version

4.2

Question

I would like to delete a PackedScene in my game with queue_free and wait a bit with await and then call a new PackedScene and probably best do all of this from the Main_Scene. And I would like to do this more often for my challenge in the game and I have no idea how I could implement it.

[bananaholograma]

You can start with the custom scene switcher example from the documentation Singletons (Autoload) — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

[zdrmlpzdrmlp]

make a scene changing code that remove_child, queue_free it, then load, instantiate PackedScene and add_child the scene you wanted to show in your game
this will need you to have a Core or Main Script that control the scene changing and will never be removed/queue_freed once the game started

here is pretty rough idea how it’s being setup:

Gapless Scene Change

i would rather make something like a switch scene function that a core/main controller has, so it doesnt need to call change_scene_to_file() to remove whole scene. with this you can add loading etc while switching scene to another without delay something like this: core.gd func switch_scene(scene_path: String,level=-1): var current_scenes = scene_node_container.get_children() var scene_count: int = current_scenes.size() if (scene_count > 0): loading_panel.visible = true await g…

[sven]

Thanks for the quick responses.