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lettucing
i’m trying to mak a game, you can place down stuff
i made it so you can save stuff by basically making a copy of the main scene
issue is, i want all the objects inside to update and use a newer version of the code when loaded (basically update the savefile to the newer game version changes in the script)
to do this i tried to:
-make a new main scene (main also changes so i have to do this)
-make new children based on the old scene and copy the old children’s properties
-change to the new modified main scene
but the problem is the game doesn’t wait for the scene to refresh/change before continuing with the code, making all the new children get added to the old instance and, therefore, getting deleted
To be honest I am not 100% certain I fully understand what you are trying to do here but I think the yield and resume functions will be able to do what you want. Yield basically pauses a function while something happens and resume allows the function to continue. You can see the godot docs here
and this is a good resource to help understand yield.
i copy the whole scene and its children, the children have scripts
so when i load the save in a version where said children are modified they’ll still use old code
so i want to change the scene to a fresh main scene and make new children with the old children’s data
i need to wait for the change_scene function to fully load the new Main instance before adding the new children
yielding did work, thanks
what i did:
yield(get_tree().current_scene, "tree_exited") #this is so that we wait for the old scene to unload
yield(tree, "idle_frame") # wait for an idle frame so that it completes
