Some Character2D Nodes Lose Pathing When top_level = true

[Snayff]

Godot Version

v4.2.2.stable.official [15073afe3]

Question

3 Actors are spawned for each Unit, they then path to the Actors of the other Unit. Due to the Unit’s transformations being applied to the Actors I set actor.top_level = true. After making this change, only 1 set of Actors are pathing, the others now dont move.

Pre-Change:

Post-Change:

The spawn code for the Actor, and the only thing to change:

var actor: Actor = actor_scene.instantiate()
add_child(actor)
actor.top_level = true
actor.global_position = spawn_pos

Any idea what’s happening?

[athousandships]

Why are you setting it as top_level?

[Snayff]

Thanks for coming back to me. I’m trying to prevent the movement of the Unit impacting the child Actors.

[athousandships]

That would be the opposite, top_level makes a node ignroe its parents

[Snayff]

Yes, so to avoid Units movement affecting Actor I am setting Actor.top_level = true. Sorry if I’ve misunderstood something.

[athousandships]

I’d suggest not moving Unit if it has actors under it, or just not have that hierarchy