How do I pass a PackedScene into a another node (it currently returns null)

Mango82

I am trying to pass a PackedScene from one Node (itself) to my GameController.gd where I want to then pass to my ItemList. My issue is that my PackedScene variables always returns null

I have created my collectable as so: - 2D Node (called ExtraJump) --- Area2D ------CollisionShape2D ------Sprite

I have a script attached to ExtraJump which looks like:

extends Node2D
onready var collectables_controller = get_tree().get_root().get_child(0).get_node("CollectablesController")
class_name Collectable

export var CollectableItem: PackedScene
export var collectable_name: String
export(Texture) var icon

func _on_Area2D_body_entered(body):
	if body.name == "Player":
		print(CollectableItem)
		collectables_controller.collect_item(CollectableItem)

I have dragged my ExtraJump.tscn file into the CollectableItem space in the inspector, but it prints out null and does not pass anything to my colelctables_controller.

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks

Erich_L

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_packedscene.html Did you try .instance() on that scene variable? That might return what I think you want.