So far my project looks like this:
A “main menu” scene that has a button, which swaps the scene to a level.
when you die in the level a death menu pops up.
The retry button works perfectly fine, but the go to main menu button does not work, and only prints “go to main menu”
Death menu script:
extends Control
var level = preload("res://All scenes/Level.tscn")
@export var main_menu:PackedScene
func _on_retry_pressed():
get_tree().reload_current_scene()
func _on_go_to_menu_button_pressed():
get_tree().change_scene_to_packed(main_menu)
print("go to main menu")
export and preload can create a cyclical dependency, try using change_scene_to_file with a string path instead.
@export_file("*.tscn") var main_menu_path: String
func _on_go_to_menu_button_pressed():
get_tree().change_scene_to_file(main_menu_path)
print("go to main menu")
To expand on this: If script A preloads or @exports script B, and script B preloads or @exports script A, (A ⟺ B) Godot will be unable to load one of them and as of 4.3 it silently fails. Generally changing scenes is better done by change_scene_to_file, where change_scene_to_packed is great for loading runtime created scenes.
