Is there a way of calling functions through dirrent scenes?

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The Scoreboard tree scene:
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Code: extends Control
@onready var label = $CanvasLayer/Label

func Add_Points():
global.Score += 1
label.text = "Score: " + str(global.Score)

Coin tree scene:
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Script: extends Area2D

@onready var game_managar = %GameManagar
@onready var animation_player = $AnimationPlayer
@onready var score_board = $“.”

func _on_body_entered(body):
game_managar.add_point()
score_board.Add_Points()
animation_player.play(“Pickup”)

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i see you link game manager node here, i guess your coin is instantiated and add_child from editor in a main scene?
your main script should know where the score_board scene node is, and when coin is collected, you just send signal telling a coin is collected to Main Script, so the Main Script can tell score_board to update the label points

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What do you mean with instantiated?

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Game manager is just a node in the main scene with a label that displays the coin number

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but I also wanna show the coin number on a UI that is made in another scene

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Scoreboard is probably best used through an Autoload, otherwise if your coins are placed manually they would each need to be connected or given a reference to the scoreboard. If they are made dynamically/spawned in that is less of an issue.

Oh an the unique identifier only works for nodes within the scene of said script, so %GameManagar will not give you a game manager since it does not exist in coin. Probably autoload that as well

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do you have a main script here? it doesnt look like the game manager is the main script now, the Main Script should hold all the essential node in a variable or two, then use the variable to tell the node to do something when receiving signals to do something

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the variable score is a global one

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No I don’t have one

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It’s just a node that holds a label that display how many coins are being collected

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so your main scene is now the game manager? and you created score_board inside game_manager?

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hold up I can show the main scene

here
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yes, the main scene is slacking right now, it’s responsible to transfer information to one or another, not just a main scene for a name

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so global is an autoloaded script? Try using Scoreboard instead, it can have the same variables, score is more relevant to the scoreboard anyways.

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scoreboard is the UI that should display how many coins have beem collected. How can I autoload that and have variables in it?

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extends Area2D

@onready var game_managar = %GameManagar
@onready var animation_player = $AnimationPlayer
@onready var score_board = $"../../ScoreBoard"

func _on_body_entered(body):
game_managar.add_point()
score_board.Add_Points()
animation_player.play(“Pickup”)

then just this will do

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Autoloaded .tscn files will also allow access to it’s scripted variables and functions. Assuming the script is on the root node, which it is for your scoreboard.

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Worked great! Thanks. When I created the variable I just dropped it into the script using ctrl cause I thought it would do it auto

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Thanks for the help!

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When naming variabels do you go through the diffrent trees?