My AnimationPlayer can't find the animations if multiple instances of a scene are added to the tree

[Gurk]

Godot Version

4.4

Question

I’m making a little animation where I want to move an play some sounds when an instantiated scene is added to the tree. The first node plays with no problem, but the second one does not. I receive some debug messages that say that the animation player can not find the path to the nodes to animate.

Looking into that I noticed that if two of this nodes happen to appear in the tree at the same time, the second one will have its name changed from “Control” to “Control@88”, for example, and this breaks the animation.

Is there a way to make the AnimationPlayer consider the nodes it have to play without taking the parents node name into account? I tried calling clear_caches() in the _ready() but it did nothing, if that was what i was supposed to use…

Here, more details:
The Scene

The animations inside the AnimationPlayer have an absolute path

The first node when added, keeps the scene name and plays Ok

If a second one appear before the previous one leaves, the name changes and the animation breaks.

The cache warnings.

[Gurk]

The joys of writing for help after hours of meddling with the issue and finding the answer 5 minutes later.

I noticed in the inspector that the AnimationPlayer had a strange value as a Root Node:

I don’t know how that …/… appeared there, but I changed it by setting the parent node as the Root Node.

This broke the animations, but to fix them I only have to fix the path of each track by removing the name of the parent node:

Now it works with no problem even with many scenes added.

Still, don’t know how that …/… value appeared there.

Sorry for the post.