Hello! While I’m not new at programming, I’m new to game dev in general. I’ve modelled a “room” and named it as “base_cell”. The idea is when I click any of the walls in the base cell, it creates another cell in that direction and removes the connecting walls.
've got a Node3D for every wall and they are all under the base_cell node which is instanced in my main scene. The mouse click logic is attached to every Wall node, since it makes sense that I need to know which Wall was clicked on. However, the code I’ve mustered up to create a new base_cell hasn’t worked
extends Node3D
func _instantiate_cell(name):
var root = self.get_parent()
var new_cell = root.duplicate()
for child in root.get_children():
if child.name == name:
continue
new_cell.add_child(child.duplicate())
However, I can’t put the logic for cell duplication on the root Node3D since I’d lose access to the input_event call. Is my entire Node arrangement logic wrong? Is it possible to handle this signal in a parent node? Did I paint myself into a corner by trying to reuse as much code as possible? Is there an appropriate way to handle this? Should I just load the main scene inside the wall script and do it that way?
Bingo, I was missing the “add_child” part. I rearranged things such that the base cell dealt with instantiation and that was called from within the wall_click_detect script:
wall_click_detect.gd:
func _on_static_body_3d_input_event(camera, event, position, normal, shape_idx):
if event is InputEventMouseButton:
if event.button_index == MOUSE_BUTTON_LEFT and event.pressed == true:
if can_expand:
var root = get_parent_node_3d();
root._instantiate_cell(self.name)
Then, inside the BaseCell node:
func _instantiate_cell(name):
var new_cell = Node3D.new()
print(name)
for child in self.get_children():
if child.name == name:
continue
new_cell.add_child(child.duplicate())
var sceneroot = self.get_parent()
sceneroot.add_child(new_cell)
_plop(name)
Now, the plop function will handle the cell position according to the clicked wall.