Inheritance and Arrays?

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Godot Version

Godot 4.4

Question

If I put an Array in a class and fill it in the class, will my subclasses inherit the full array? , just the array?

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Depends on how you fill it.

Extended classes will have the same variables as their inherited script, if default-initialized then the same defaults too.

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So lets say I fill the array with preloaded scenes?
Would all my scenes, if all the variables are previously stated in the base class, be inherited in the extended class?

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Probably, again depends on what you mean by “fill”. If you are using defaults then yes, other methods like inside the _ready function or through @export may not hold true.

# a default initialized array
var my_array: Array[PackedScene] = [ preload("res://scene1.tscn"), preload("res://scene2.tscn") ]
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okay so example would look like this

Extends Node
class_name MainClass

# pre loaded scenes
@onready var sc_1 = preload("res://scene1.tscn")
@onready var sc_2 = preload("res://scene2.tscn")

# array holding the scenes
@onready var filled_array: Array = [sc_1, sc_2,]

Now my next script would Extend MainClass will I be able to directly reference the filled_array

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replace vars with const since you use preload(), and it would be inheritable

even available without instancing script (but resources will be loaded if script mentioned anywhere)

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Thank you!