New to godot, need to figure out how to make inventory slots to actualy show

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Godot Version

Godot v4.2.1.stable

Question

trying to link my players inventory from its main file to show up on a panel in my inventory hud, cant figure out what to write to make it understand single or each item in the inventory var

Inventroy panel slot 1 script

extends Node
const Explorer = preload("res://assets/characters/explorer/Explorer.gd")
var ItemClass = preload("res://assets/inventory/Item.tscn")
var Item = null
var player : Explorer = null
# Called when the node enters the scene tree for the first time.
func _ready():
	pass
func set_player(player:Explorer):
	self.player = player
	player.inventory_changed.connect(show_inventory)
	player.inventory.connect()
func show_inventory(Item):
	if global.player.inventory:

the inventroy in the
res://assets/characters/explorer/Explorer.gd script

signal inventory_changed()

var inventory = {
	"empty_hands" : 1,
	"gun" : 0,
	"sword" : 0,
	"medkit" : 0
}

and also to know which one specficly is selected at the time in the /Explorer.gd script.


var weapons_list = ["gun", "sword","medkit"]
var active_weapon = "empty_hands"
var changing_weapon = false
var weapon_change_timer = Timer.new()
func on_weapon_changed():
	changing_weapon = false

maybe global.player.inventory has to be in there somwhere, or the slot node path itself

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My buddy Braydee over at Gamedev Artisan recently released a tutorial on inventories that you might find helpful.

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ive tried looking into it and other sources, and from what i understand i should use maybe smthing like this but not for text, i dont know how to use that to send an item tho. this is a script from a hud that dosent show th eitmens and just their values from the inventory code that i showed before

func show_inventory():
	get_node(("MarginContainer/HBoxContainer/InventoryLabel")).text = str(player.inventory)
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im thinking maybe using signals but i need help.
im guessing it could be like this

# Parent
global.inventory.connect(item,count)

# Child
global.inventory.emit()

probably taking the simple approach and selecting just the

{"gun" : 0}

etc separately per inventory panel, and the other panel changing it to
“sword” : 0, and “medkit” : 0 accordingly. but I don’t know how to write the actual lines, just the concept of them.

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or maybe

	(item:count)
		if "gun" < 0,
			Item = ItemClass.instantiate()
			add_child(Item)

im new to godot and trying to work on a project with a friend. they only knew how to link text-based and i don’t know how to translate that into something more item like,

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yet to find a solution on the internet, mostly scouting for 20 minutes a day. still no progress. any help is appreciated. i feel like I’m on the right path just not enough knowledge to actually make sense of it