Signal between Roots

[ThiZisThi]

Godot Version

Godot 4.2.2 Stable

Question

I made two “Roots”, one for the player and another for a pathway, and I want the pathway one to emit a signal to the player whenever the player steps on a pathway, but thing is that it just doesn’t let me connect the signal from the pathway to the player both through the signal list and by script.

[gertkeno]

You could connect them together in your “main”/“world” scene where both player and pathway are instantiated.

Though if you need dynamic connections you need to get the pathway dynamically too. I do not know how you intend to set these up or what they do, but groups are pretty good way to find objects.

Add your pathways to a group for example “Pathway” then the player can use get_nodes_in_group("Pathway") to connect to each one

extends CharacterBody2D

func _ready() -> void:
    var pathways: Array[Node] = get_tree().get_nodes_in_group("Pathway")
    for pathway in pathways:
        pathway.player_entered.connect(_on_player_entered_pathway)

func _on_player_entered_pathway() -> void:
    print("entered a pathway")

[ThiZisThi]

It worked just fine!!

Found a few errors on my end but at least now I can link the signals that way, the rest is up to testing it out, Ty!!