Display Text Label

LuanSantos95

Hi everyone. I want to show an text that is initially hidden at the scene, but only when the player interacts with a specific item. Someone can help me? There are any approaches but I don't know which is better.

The text "HELLO!" at the screen must be initially hidden and when I interact with the chest, it must be shown.

The scroll node is a child node from the Player and is a Sprite type. The text is a child Label node.

DaveTheCoder

My approach is to use the Label's show()/hide() methods or visible property.

LuanSantos95

@DaveTheCoder said: My approach is to use the Label's show()/hide() methods or visible property.

Where the script is attached? Because I'm confused about how the chest interaction wil modify the label state, since the Label node is a child node from Player

DaveTheCoder

It depends on the scene tree structure. Can you post that, and indicate which node knows about the interaction, and where the Label is located?

LuanSantos95

@DaveTheCoder said: It depends on the scene tree structure. Can you post that, and indicate which node knows about the interaction, and where the Label is located?

DaveTheCoder

Does Chest's script detect the interaction, and the Hello Label is Player/Scroll/Label?

One method would be to add a reference to the Label in Chest's script: var HelloLabel: Label and set that variable in a script attached to Level-1-0, which is a common ancestor of Chest and Label: $Chest.HelloLabel = $Player/Scroll/Label Then Chest's script can call HelloLabel.hide() and HelloLabel.show().

You could also do it with a signal that takes a bool show/hide parameter. The signal could be connected in Level-1-0's script. The signal would be emitted by Chest's script. The signal handler could be anywhere. One choice would be in a script attached to Label.

LuanSantos95

@DaveTheCoder said: Does Chest's script detect the interaction, and the Hello Label is Player/Scroll/Label?

One method would be to add a reference to the Label in Chest's script: var HelloLabel: Label and set that variable in a script attached to Level-1-0, which is a common ancestor of Chest and Label: $Chest.HelloLabel = $Player/Scroll/Label Then Chest's script can call HelloLabel.hide() and HelloLabel.show().

You could also do it with a signal that takes a bool show/hide parameter. The signal could be connected in Level-1-0's script. The signal would be emitted by Chest's script. The signal handler could be anywhere. One choice would be in a script attached to Label.

Yep, there is a signal with a variable name is_player_inside when the player enters the chest Area2D.

I get it. I will try it here. One question: This is the first level of my game. If I user other objects and create another levels, each level must have a script? And each object must activate for each level? If I use more than one chest, would it cause trouble?

Edit: I tried here and it worked! Thank you very much :D I have only a doubt about the question I made