Orphan a child through code in Godot 4?

[catdogdonkey]

Godot Version

4.2.2

Question

Hey! In my game, there is a spike that kills and deletes the player node. But since the camera is a child, I need to orphan the camera before the player dies so the player can see their death. It seems like a simple question, but I’ve looked at the documentation, looked at tutorials, and asked ChatGPT, but I found nothing. I’ve debugged the code and the code does work, but I just need the line. If I could get help, that would be great, and thanks in advance!

[gertkeno]

I would avoid actually deleting the player, hide their sprite, set_physics_process(false), etc.

[substain]

I would use @gertkeno s solution as well in most cases. But in case you actually want to reuse the camera, I’d consider these steps:

1. choose a new parent node, new_parent for the camera (e.g. the level, a different player,…)
2. call camera.reparent(new_parent, true). Having the second argument set to true means that the camera keeps it current position
3. if you want to switch to a different camera camera2 you can call camera2.make_current()

This does not really orphan the camera (it is still part of the scene tree), but if you make a different camera the current one, the previous camera is not in use anymore.

[Moreus]

Instead camera in player node you can have RemoteTransform with camera in Remote Path(not child of player), now you can kill player and camera will be untouched

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[catdogdonkey]

Thank you all for your answers! I hope you all have an amazing day!