How to access external data from other trees from inside another tree

maskedKirby64

So I have an Enemy that needs to access the player's position, but when I use get_node() it only allows me to select the children of Enemy, Is there a way to get the position from inside the Enemy tree?

pkowal1982

You can access parent node with get_node("..") or get_parent() You can access parent of parent with get_node("../..") or get_parent().get_parent() And so on...

cybereality

There is only ever one tree. While you can group scenes together (with their own trees) while the game is running it is a single tree. There are many ways to access other nodes, but this may be the easiest.

var player = get_tree().get_root().find_node("Player", true, false)

You probably want to save the player on _ready() because searching the tree every frame can be slow.

maskedKirby64

Thank you! Also when accessing the player position would I type player.transform.position or player.position?

cybereality

If it's 2D, then you should be able to use player.position, but it will depend what kind of Node it is.

maskedKirby64

thanks