PackedScene instances not responding to signals?

SnapCracklins

Hello again. I have a Packed Scene enemy object, had it working on signals but then after saving it and duplicating it, it is not responding to the player object. (It should change animation, register global score variable then free itself). My object is mouse-controlled and should float over the object.

This is the enemy object with comments: (Note: the hasPoints signal is "observed" by a score/label object that update with each hit.)

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and the player object:

All help appreciated.

GlyphTheWolf

Hi,

What do you exactly mean by:

@SnapCracklins said: I have a Packed Scene enemy object, had it working on signals but then after saving it and duplicating it, it is not responding to the player object. You mean that you copy scene in editor? Or you instance it in editor? Or instance it from code like:
var enemyScene = preload(<some scene path>)
var newEnemy = enemyScene.instance()

SnapCracklins

@GlyphTheWolf sorry if my terminology is off. My PackedScene is an enemy object that had signals triggering its functions before I saved it. Once i began spawning/copying the enemy scene, it is no longer responding to signals. Does that make sense?

Also - I have tried both methods you offer. Seems whenever the new enemy is instanced, all the signals no longer work despite the scene begin preloaded from global.

GlyphTheWolf

So you do something like: 1. Prepared scene for your enemy and connected signal in editor 2. Saved scene 3. Add scene to another scene (by "add scene instance" from editor or PackedScene.instance()) 4. Signals doesn't work?

SnapCracklins

@GlyphTheWolf said: So you do something like: 1. Prepared scene for your enemy and connected signal in editor 2. Saved scene 3. Add scene to another scene (by "add scene instance" from editor or PackedScene.instance()) 4. Signals doesn't work?

Exactly. I am trying to connect these nodes but I am worried I've already screwed up the order. Also have a Spawner object that instances the Scene, those spawned scenes don't work earlier. The nodes I need to connect are outside the tree.

GlyphTheWolf

Hammer seems to be part of player scene, not enemy scene.

If you want to keep your enemy separately you need probably connect to hammer signal on ready like:

export(NodePath) var playerHammer

func _ready():
    var playerHammerNode = get_node(playerHammer)
    playerHammerNode.connect("hammerTime", self, "_on_Hammer_hammerTime")

But then you need to set playerHammer for each enemy scene you will instance in editor (and from code also).