How do I stop a ProgressBar from scaling with its parent?

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Godot Version

4.3 Stable

Question

How do I stop a ProgressBar from scaling with its parent

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The inheritance scale is the way that Godot works, if you want that separated you need to keep the ProgressBar outside the parent.

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Ok. So I’ve found the transform qualities within the node, and I think the parent transformations go down the tree. I could multiply it by a number so it’s equal to 1. Like:

progressbar.scale = (needed number)*parent_scale

I tried doing

progress_bar.scale = (1/parent.scale)*parent.scale

but it seemed a bit off. Maybe someone can see what I did wrong and try it themselves.

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Greetings,

Its wrong way to compensate transform, better place progress_bar(s) on their special parent and make them follow targets using
progress_bar.global_position=target.global_position

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Have you tried top_level setting?

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This solution works, but it makes the bar really jittery.
Implementation:

func _process(delta : float) -> void:
	self.global_position=target.global_position

Is there a way to make it smoother?

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do you know how to use tweeners?
you may do checks of position every 0.2/0.33/0.5 seconds
and then move progress_bar position using tween_property() this will make move really smoothly

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I tried this, and it stops all transformations, including translations.

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I was able to use top_level to stop the scaling, and then used lerp() to make i

func _process(delta : float) -> void:
	var bar_positsion : Vector2 = $"..".position + Vector2(2,-4) #this is setting the bar to the right and up of the player
	self.global_position = lerp(self.global_position,$"..".position + Vector2(6,-25),.2) #the bar is setting itself to a position in between it's current position and the player's position.
# this makes it kinda smooth, a little jittery but over-all it's fine.
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