Proprerties of children?

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Godot Version

4.7

Question

I have a scene with a rigid body 3d that I am using in my main scene by instancing them during runtime, is there a way to accesses and change that child’s properties at a different time in game? im trying to freeze the children some time after they have been placed by the player. here is the code in a script attached to main

		if Global.rock_subtype == 1:
			child_numb = 5
			for i in range(child_numb):
				var rock_temp = preload("res://scenes/physics-objects/rock.tscn").instantiate()
				rock_temp.position = Vector3(randi_range(1, -1), randi_range(1, -1), randi_range(1, -1))
				rock_temp.scale = Vector3(randf_range(0.2, 1.3), randf_range(0.2, 1.3), randf_range(0.2, 1.3))
				add_child(rock_temp)

and here is the rock scene, i tried freezing the rocks in the script attached to the root of the rock scene but it only freezes new instances. id really love some help and direction, thanks!

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Declare rock_temp (with a better name) as a script property, outside of any function. It will then permanently contain a reference to the instantiated node after you assign it.

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thanks, this is making a lot more sense

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If you want to access any of its children, you can use get_node() with a relative path:

rock_temp.get_node("RigidBody3D")

or

rock_temp.get_node("RigidBody3D/MeshInstance3D")