Im trying to give the tree a random texture but i get "Invalid assignment of property or key 'Texture' with value of type 'String' on a base object of type 'Sprite2D'."

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Godot Version

4.5

Question

So, im trying to give the tree one of three random options for a texture, but the problem is that whenever my code gets to the part where i want to assign the texture to the newly created node it says “Invalid assignment of property or key ‘Texture’ with value of type ‘String’ on a base object of type ‘Sprite2D’.”, which is confusing to me because how else am i supposed to put the texture in the code?clicking and dragging the png into the code is how i got that so i assumed itd work

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extends Node2D

var Treever = 0
#components of timer(from tutorial. thanks youtube!)
var Cd = true
var countdown_complete = false
var Timeleft = 0.0

func NewNode(node_2d: Node2D) -> Node2D:
			var new_node2d: Node2D = node_2d.duplicate()
			#make a copy of the node you give it with random size
			new_node2d.scale = Vector2(randf_range(7.0,13.0), randf_range(7.0,13.0))
			new_node2d.position = Vector2(randf_range(0,1150), randf_range(0,650))
			#Trying to get the Sprite2D of the new copy
			var node2child : Sprite2D = node_2d.get_child(0)
			#Trying to make sure the value of node2child is the Sprite2D of the new node ( it prints sprite2d for me)
			print(node2child)
			#random number to choose the version of the tree art to use 
			Treever = randi_range(1,3)
			#i was printing Treever to try and find out where things were going wrong earlier.
			print(Treever)
			#Things usually break right here, it says "
			 #Invalid assignment of property or key 'Texture' with value of type 
			 #'String' on a base object of type 'Sprite2D'."
			if Treever == 1:
				node2child.Texture = "res://Png/TreeVerOne.png"
			if Treever == 2:
				node2child.Texture = "res://Png/TreeVerTwo.png"
			if Treever == 3:
				node2child.Texture = "res://Png/TreeVerThree.png"
			add_child(new_node2d)
			return new_node2d
		
func _ready() -> void:
		pass
		
func _process(_delta: float) -> void:
	if Cd == false :
		NewNode($Tree)
		Cd = true
	elif Cd == true:
		if Timeleft <= 0.0 :
			Cd = false 
			Timeleft = 3.0
			print("Ding!")
		else:
			Timeleft -= _delta
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You need a texture, but you’re giving it a string.
You need to load said texture first, try:

node2child.Texture = ResourceLoader.load("res://Png/TreeVerOne.png")
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when i tried that this is the message it gave me ““Invalid assignment of property or key ‘Texture’ with value of type ‘CompressedTexture2D’ on a base object of type ‘Sprite2D’.””, the only thing changed from the post was putting each one of the texture strings in a “ResourceLoader.load(“String here”)”

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The property is texture not Texture, does it work if you fix that?

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Working now. Thank you

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Thank you as well, your advice helped, i was just doing two things wrong lol