Enemys drop xp on death

UnknownUser

Hey, I'm trying to set up a system were when one of my enemies gets killed it drops a few bits of xp that the player can pick up. I'm having reel trouble finding any tutorials on the topic. I would take any links or help I can get.

Thanks!

TwistedTwigleg

I think dropping XP that the player can pickup should just be a matter of creating some XP pickup instances in the function that destroys the pickup. Something like this (untested, pseudo code):

func _on_enemy_death():
	var num_xp = rand_range(2, 10)
	for i in range(0, num_xp):
		var clone = XP_SCENE.instance()
		get_parent().add_child(clone)
	queue_free()

UnknownUser

So dose this code go on the XP it self?

TwistedTwigleg

@ThatTatylorH1 said: So dose this code go on the XP it self?

On the enemy, ideally, as the code was written to spawn XP on enemy death (though it’s just an example snippet). The XP scene in the example code would be the XP_SCENE.

UnknownUser

I need to finger out how to right the spawning code.

UnknownUser

NM, lol I see what you mean. thx

UnknownUser

So that almost worked. It seems to not be spawning in and the enemies current position and I only need it to create 2 xp's.

UnknownUser

Heres what I'm working with so far.

TwistedTwigleg

I’d change minotaur.get_position() with minotaur.global_position and clone.position with clone.global_position and see if that fixes the positioning issue.

For spawning two XPs, I’d recommend using a for loop to spawn the clone. It should just be a matter of taking var clone = XP_SCENE.instance() and those under it and placing them in a loop like for i in range(0, 2)

UnknownUser

I feel like were close. XP is spawning in and it is 2 of them. unfortunately is putting them an the enemy spanner and not the location of the enemy.

UnknownUser

OK, so I replaced "$"/root/global".minotaur.global_position" with "self.global_position" and now they spawn in right were they should.

now to try and figure out how to have then soot out and bounce to the floor.

Thanks for all the help!

TwistedTwigleg

Awesome, I'm glad you got it working!