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Joe0239
Hey guys, I have a gun node as the root node (it is a kinematics node) and a child node which is a bullet (also a kinematics node) is attatched to the gun node.
Now when I press space to shoot, then the bullet should come out. So how should I go about doing this.
Should I make the bullet invisible (by toggling the visibility as off)?
Should I program this space shooting script on the gun or on the bullet?
I don’t think You want to have bullet as a child of gun. Child always copy transform of a parent, and that would make your bullet change trajectory when You move a gun. Good practice is to instance() a new bullet from a script in a gun. If bullet has no additional behaviors, You can also set its speed and direction from a gun script. However if You want bullet to behave differently based on events happening after the moment of shooting - You should also script the bullet in a way it handles his own trajectory.
Ok so currently the bullet has movement which works fine.
So in the gun script I use instance() and how do I exactly get the bullet to spawn where the gun is?
Joe0239 | 2022-02-11 12:29
by manually setting its position to position of a gun, like :
bullet.global_position = gun.global_position
or
bullet.global_transform = gun.global_transform
in order to instance() a bullet You need to load/preload it first, and than instance() the result, like
var bullet = preload("res://bullet.tscn")
var bulletinst = bullet.instance()
Inces | 2022-02-11 14:39
Hey mate, but why do I need this:
var bulletinst = bullet.instance() when in your example I never end up using the bulletinst variable?
Joe0239 | 2022-02-13 00:21
var bullet = preload("res://bullet.tscn")
first You you change the path to resource ( like take a blueprint of a scene)
var bulletinst = bullet.instance()
next You create individual object using this blieprint.
bulletinst.global_postition = gun.global_position
finally You set any variable to this individual object
Generally You always have to call a blueprint once, and than instance() this blueprint as many times as many bullets You want
I would create a bullets:Node in level hierarchy and add every new bullet there. Then you can access any or every bullet, because they kinda are in a folder
onready var bullet = preload("path to bullet.tscn")
gun creates an instance of bullet
newbullet = bullet.instance()
maybe sets bullet’s varibles
newbullet.speed = 10
and since then bullet is on it’s own
The bullet node won’t be a child to the gun node, right?
