Menu Navigation Troubles

UnknownUser

I have a simple scene called GameWorldNode with three child nodes attached to it. Each child node has a ColorRect of a different color and one button. My goal is to switch between each child to simulate menu navigation.

When GameWorldNode enters the Scene Tree, move_child(...) method runs inside GameWorlNodes' ready() method and correctly sets the the ApartmentNode to index = 2 and displays the Apartment Menu on top of all the other nodes. If I do not run the move_child(...) method inside ready() then the CombatNode menu will be correctly displayed on top.

However, during a press_button() event inside the ApartmentNode, move_child() sets the BaseLevel node to index 2 correctly,(I double checked with get_node("BaseLevel").get_index() ) BUT the BaseLevel does not draw on top of all the other nodes, even though it is indexed correctly within the scene. ApartmentNode is still visible on top.

Why does the BaseLevel node not draw on top of the other nodes after setting its index to be above the other nodes?

UnknownUser

I think I can answer my own question after doing a bit more reasearch.

My flaw here is that I was treating the nodes as 3 different graphics layer, which is wrong:

According to this discussion: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/8163

"...nodes are not layers. Among other things the tree order determines in which order nodes are processed, in which order they receive notifications, and even trivial things like which child comes first when you do a Node.get_children()" and "Nodes don't represent the same thing as layers in graphics software. It's more like drawing on one layer, the first thing you draw will be in the very back, and anything you draw after that will be on top."

So I will try to implement a different menu navigation system via this thread: https://godotengine.org/qa/43231/what-the-best-handle-menu-navigation-gdscript-scene-layout