How to make lights and sprites disapear at day time in day/night cycle

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Godot Version

v4.4.1

Question

Hey guys trying to make my day_night.tscn effect my main scene.
specifically I want the timer I use for the daynight cycle to turn off point lights and hide certain sprites during the day. Any ideas?

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You can connect to the timer’s timeout signal and hide the lights and sprites when it is emitted. If you aren’t familiar with signals, I’d read this guide.

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I guess ill just have to keep researching these signals. Im not sure how i link them to other scenes. I see how to link it to whats active in my scene but not via other scenes.

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If an instantiated scene is in the SceneTree, you can connect to one of its node’s signals with code. See the connect method.

Example:

func _ready():
    var timer = $InstantiatedScene/Timer
    timer.timeout.connect(_on_timer_timeout)

func _on_timer_timeout():
    print("Timeout")
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Thank you! That makes sence. I guess i just needed to see it in raw form for it to click!

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