NodePath returning wrong node

[supernovafiles]

Godot Version

4.6.2

Question

Hi everyone!

I have this behavior with NodePath that I would like to understand. I have this TacticsPlanner scene that has several child actions:

Each action has a @export var action_connections: Array[Dictionary]and each entry has a Dictionarycontaining an emitter, receiver, and signal name. I’m using this data to connect signals through code.

The emitter and receiver are NodePath. When I run the TacticsPlanner code and place a for loop to connect these signals, the path seems to get the wrong node.

So, in this example, the print returns the TacticsPlanner, instead of the ComboAttackAction.

CONNECTION
TacticsPlanner:<Node#296134641754>
At: res://characters/enemy/dummy/tactics/dummy_tactics_planner.gd:15:initialize()

If I remove get_node() to check what the path being returned is, I have this:

CONNECTION
.
   At: res://characters/enemy/dummy/tactics/dummy_tactics_planner.gd:15:initialize()

I was expecting the code would return the ComboAttackAction(or any other node selected). So, why is this happening?

[supernovafiles]

I see now that the NodePath reference is relative to the node where the NodePath is set. So HeavyComboActionis referencing itself, so the path is just “.”. So, if I ran the loop from TacticsActionPlanner, the script would reference itself, not the HeavyComboAction.

Any chance I can set the node from the action node instead of the planner?

[mrcdk]

Exported NodePaths are relative to the Node they are exported from. If the NodePaths are relative to the TacticsAction node then use tactic_action.get_node(connection) instead.