Texture problem ( warning : long message)

Tienux

Hello everyone ! So i am a new godot user and I have a problem with the texture.
In my game you can create a character with different options. The texture switch very well in the preview (wich is not the node of a player, just a specific node for that preview).

As you can see the texture is green in the preview, and everything fine.
The problem is when i want to apply it to the player..

(I know for line 20 21 It's just so you can see the whole line)
So to the left circle it's my Player scene where i link the creator that you can see above. The shirtSprite is a var linked to the Sprite/Shirt( for the player not the preview ). I get the node of the sprite that i get from creator (the texture). And then in the load path it's not anymore the green one but the empty, like if it was reset to the empty. (Default value).
Why all the value get reset and how i can apply the texture of the preview made before on my player skin ?
Should i apply it directly on the script of the Player Creator instead of the Player script ?

duane

It's hard to tell what's going wrong from a screenshot. The best way to post this would be a simplified version of your project in a zip file, but the new forum software doesn't allow that, so you'd have to post a link from somewhere else.

If I were you, I'd use the debugger to step through the code and make sure that you're actually getting a working object at that point, that the object does have a texture, and that the texture object still exists. When you find the point at which it ceases to exist, you can probably figure out what's going wrong.

By the way, the only difference moving your script would make is the paths you'd have to use to find something, assuming the object the script is attached to continues to exist. It should function the same anywhere.

Tienux

duane Hi, I will do that later.
For the debugger I already use it many times and step by steap to see what's my code doing.
The problem is that my texture when I am in the scene of the sprite creator is very well changed. But when I want to link the texture ( The green shirt in this case for example). The sprite with the the good texture that i want to get by a get_node(<path>).texture is NULL even if it was the good one. And i don't understand why ?

duane

Tienux

If the texture property is null, then either you're looking in the wrong place, or the texture object doesn't exist at the time you're looking for it (either before or after), or the property cannot take the data type you're trying to assign. I can't tell which without seeing the project. Make sure you look for any errors or warnings in the debugger.

cybereality

You cannot separate statements onto multiple lines like that. It's an error in GDSCript, unless you escape it.

This is an ERROR:

var num = 
9

This is OKAY:

var num = \
9

Tienux

cybereality Yeah that why I said it was only for you like you can see the whole line. I know that

Megalomaniak

cybereality This is an ERROR:
var num = 
9
This is OKAY:
var num = \
9

IIRC a special case is things encapsulated in brackets I think.

Tienux

duane Yeah but the texture is changed because the shirt couldn't be green if it wasn't changed. The texture was applied and when i want to apply the texture on the sprite I can't

cybereality

It's probably best if you only use get_node() on the top onready to get the node reference, not the texture. Then you can access the texture inside the function.

Tienux

cybereality I know but the texture become NULL even if it wasn't in the scene Creator.tscn . It's only when I switch scene after clicking on create that everything that i made in creator scene for the player become NULL for another scene

cybereality

If you are switching the whole scene of the game, then nothing will be saved. You have to save the user's choices in a Dictionary and pass it to the next scene somehow (maybe with an Autoload, or by saving to a file).

Tienux

cybereality Thank you very much you help me a lot. I made a program who save the texture and it finally work. I was about to switch on Unity lol.
Juste one last question what is the best format to save a world and a player ? (.res , .dat , .bin ) I know what does that format do but idk what is the best

cybereality

It depends how you are saving. If you use the save_var() function, then it will be binary, so you can use any extension (or none at all), it doesn't matter. You can also save the texture names as strings, in which case JSON would make the most sense.