Godot Version
4.5
Question
In my world scene, I have 2 named nodes called the EnemyGenerator and EnvironmentGenerator.
During the game, the player can pause the game and navigate to e.g., a settings screen.
When navigating back, both generators lose their name and become respectively Node2D@23 and Node2D@24. In my code however, I rely on $EnemyGenerator and $EnvironmentGenerator. Is there a way around this?
I already tried looping over the children in the tree and if they are of type EnemyGenerator or EnvironmentGenerator, casting them as these nodes and setting their names, but that didn’t do the trick.
func _ensure_generator_names() -> void:
for child in get_children():
if child is EnemyGenerator:
child.name = "EnemyGenerator"
elif child is EnvironmentGenerator:
child.name = "EnvironmentGenerator"
This is how I access them now, but the solution I mentioned where I can directly reference them would be way cleaner:
func apply_bomb_power_up():
for enemy in enemies.get_children():
(enemy as Enemy).destroy()
for environment in environments.get_children():
(environment as Environments).destroy()
var enemy_generator: EnemyGenerator = null
var environment_generator: EnvironmentGenerator = null
for child in get_children():
if child is EnemyGenerator:
enemy_generator = child as EnemyGenerator
elif child is EnvironmentGenerator:
environment_generator = child as EnvironmentGenerator
if enemy_generator:
enemy_generator.pause_timers(2.5)
else:
printerr("Warning: EnemyGenerator not found")
if environment_generator:
environment_generator.pause_timers(2.5)
else:
printerr("Warning: EnvironmentGenerator not found")