Panel container scene intance layout

Moguai

Hello all, I have a game scene and when the user push "enter" I want to show a panel container with information about the environemnt. The panel container and it's childs are stored as a scene, called baseOverlay, it' layout is set to "Top-Wide" As I want to reuse the overlay for all other scenes as well I don't want to add the scene for every other scenes . So, I load it from code dynamically:

I instantiate the scene in Player scene which is also a child of the scene

const BaseOverlay = preload("res://Scenes/BaseOverlay.tscn")

func push_button(interactables, prey): var overlay = BaseOverlay.instance() get_parent().add_child(overlay) overlay.init(interactables, prey)

Scene shows up but is centered in the middle of the parent scene (Pos 0,0) and ignores the layout setting completely.

My question: How can I use the layout settings "Top-Wide" at runtime. I've tried to set preset "Top-wide" in ready function of the BaseOverlay itself, but it does nothing.

func _ready(): set_anchors_and_margins_preset(10)

Any ideas how I can add a container scene dynamically and set it to top left position of the current screen (and not a fixe position in parent scene)

Thanks a lot Regards

cybereality

A container takes it's bounds and sizing rules from the parent. You probably want a Control node I think for the parent container, and set it's size to the full size of the window.

Moguai

The root node of the scene is a control node ( a panel container). So you mean I need an additional control node in the parent scene and add the panelcontainer to that at runtime? Does the PanelContainer not automatically adapt the size if added to another scene?

Moguai

Small update: I've added a control node to the parent scene and set it's layout ot Top Wide. Then I add the overlay scene as child to that control node. Same result. It is just placed at 0,0.

Moguai

For who stumble over that: I had to use a CanvasLayer to add the instance of the panel container always at top left corner. So either you can use a canvaslayer and add the panel to that or add the canvaslayer as parent and add an instance of a canvaslayer with panel container as child