I am having issues with adding children to a node I instantiated in script

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Question

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Please explain what issues you are having

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Basically what is happening is that I am creating an instance of a mob and I want to add a child to this instance. Godot is throwing me an error saying I can’t instantiate on a null value.

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Please show your code to help rest this, there’s not enough details here

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<func _on_shoot_timer_timeout():
var b = Bullet.instantiate()
owner.add_child(b)
b.transform = $AnimatedSprite2D/Muzzle.global_transform
var direction = (player_position - position).normalized()
var direction_to_mouse = direction
b.set_direction(direction_to_mouse)>

On the line owner.add_child(b) it is giving me the null error
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Have you assigned owner anywhere?

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I was able to fix it using the

get_parent().add_child() function

Thanks for the Help

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owner is special here, it’s not the same as the parent, make sure it’s assigned if you’re going to use it, see here