I made a 'restart_level' method. It only works once. Why?

fiddlemouth

The relevant part of my hierarchy looks like this:

This is in the script attached to all level nodes in my project, level.gd:

and this is the load_level method being called inside game.gd:

And this works, but only once. If I try to restart the level again, I get this error:

SIsilicon28

It looks to me that the reason why it's not working is because the level's name is different when you restart it. This normally happens when you instance a node from packed scenes. You can look at it for yourself when testing a scene by looking in the remote scene tree. The new node's name will have some numbers at its end. . So when you attempt to load the scene a second time, the path to the level won't give the level, since it's derived from the node's name. You might need a different way of storing the level's name. Maybe give it a custom default variable in the level's script that it can use instead of the node name.

var level_name = lv_template

func restart_level():
	get_parent().get_parent().load_level(load("res://Levels/" + level_name + ".tscn"))

Megalomaniak

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