Greetings to all! I have this problem: when I enter the Area2D node as a character, this node does not respond in any way, as if it does not see the character

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First of All your character and Area2D must have collision shape. And the area2d emites the signal and you need to connect to that signal.

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they both have a collision shape

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More information on that may be helpful

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Without your code its difficult to tell where the issue is…

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I am also having this problem! I was even following the tutorial of one “DevWorm” on YouTube since I could not troubleshoot the issue in my custom files and thought maybe I was having a fundamental misunderstanding of the physics engine

Even after following the tutorial beat for beat up to video 3 of the playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3cGrGHvkwn2NOT1LSwf5d2XZmlc5Bjsn&si=rz54lL0NDMVy0imh I was unable to get ANY collision detection

I checked the collision layers, that nothing was disabled, everything I could find documentation on that might have an affect…

using v4.2.1 btw

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Without access to your project, it will be impossible to help you with that! There’s simply too many things that could be wrong. If you upload a (if possible: minimal) example project somewhere, you can link to it here and others might take a look.

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I am happy to share a ZIP, but where would I upload it? I’m afraid I’m not used to sharing such files and do not know the resources most recommended

EDIT: this seems to be a crude solution. Here is a link to a zip file with all the assets of the project. its my following along a tutorial in which I come across the issue in question: no collision

https://file.io/jDmheKkpLFiz

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func _on_area_2d_pickable_area_body_entered(body):
	if body.has_method("player"): #if thing has the "player" script on it

This function does not check if body has the “player” script, it checks if the script attached to the body contains a function called player! And since your player script doesn’t, the area will ignore it when it is entering.

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I see. Then I am going to have to re-watch the tutorial and try to figure out what disconnect happened during this segment. Is this an error on their part or on mine? (probably mine – i don’t learn well via video) Thank you for the feedback!

EDIT: doubled back. I was not mistaken about tutorial, but I did find a work around by adding a “custom” call variable to look for instead. now getting reactivity in the tutorial project as expected