dealing with instances of a node

noob51beta

I have several hyenas in my game project, one an instance of a scene and the rest duplicates....

How do I write my code so that whatever hyena is interacted with hyena1, hyena2 etc., the variable in its own script is changed?

Below, the code I have that only works for hyena and none of the duplicates.

func _on_Area_body_entered(body):

if body.name == "hyena":
	get_node("../hyena").expire = true

Many thanks.

.... and also if any administrators are reading, I find I cannot post on the "Questions and Answers" part of the site. I am asked to confirm my email address ... something I have already done to post here?

Thanks again.

Megalomaniak

Do you mean the Engine Q&A? That is different from this forum and has it's own database. You need to confirm that account separately.

noob51beta

Hi Megalomaniak, I just tried registering on that forum and I got an "username / email already registered message." I refer to https://godotengine.org/qa/

I haven't had an email as far as I know. When I registered for this forum it took days if I recall correctly before I received an email link to click.

noob51beta

Half way there with:

if "hyena" in body.name:

noob51beta

func _on_Area_body_entered(body):

if "hyena" in body.name:
		
	get_node("../" + body.name).expire = true

..... seems to work

Megalomaniak

@noob51beta said: Hi Megalomaniak, I just tried registering on that forum and I got an "username / email already registered message." I refer to https://godotengine.org/qa/

Yeah, thats a different entity entirely, we aren't the ones in charge of it, however the message seems to indicate that an account with your email or username already exists. There is a chance that someone else registered an account with that same username already, or that you have registered in the past perhaps and forgotten.

If the latter turns out to be true then it's worth trying to recover your account there perhaps.

noob51beta

Thank you for your advice, It looks like a "spam filter" was getting hold of the emails from Q&A - I have now successfully confirmed my email address for Q&A. All the best.