Check, if a node (for example a Sprite) is really visible/invisible on screen

Question

Hi,

I know I can check the node parameter Node.visible, but this is useless, if one of the parent nodes becomes invisible. Then all childs are invisivle too, but the flag .visible remains true.

Thanks!

Comments

edited , now it works fine

Answer 1

Thanks. But I found an other solution. There is a method .is_visible_in_tree() for every node, that shows the current visibility!

Answer 2

func _ready() -> void:
    # connecting signal and adding nodes as extra arguments so we can check if they are visible
    var _ok = get_child(0).connect('visibility_changed', self, '_on_visibility_changed', [[get_child(0)]])
    # child node connected as [ node, node.parent, parent.parent , ....]
    _ok = get_child(0).get_child(0).connect('visibility_changed', self, '_on_visibility_changed', [[get_child(0).get_child(0), get_child(0),]])



func _on_visibility_changed(nodes : Array):
    var visibility = true
    # check nodes from child to parent and update visibility
    for node in nodes:
        # if any node is hidden it will stop and changes visibility to false
        if node == null: return
        if !node.visible:
            visibility = node.visible
            break
    print( "%s visibility = %s" % [nodes[0].name, visibility])

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