Can I instance a static body

Question

onready var raycast = get_node("RayCast")

var held_item

if event.isactionpressed("interact") and iteminrange:

helditem = raycast.getcollider()
var instance = helditem.instance()
helditem.queuefree()
hand.addchild(instance)

This is my code. "Invalid call. Nonexistent function 'instance' in base 'StaticBody (Pot.gd)." is the error it gives. "iteminrange" becomes true when raycast collides with an object(I tested this with print method it works fine). I want to destroy the object I'm looking at and create an instance of it in my hand. What is the problem with this code and is there a better way of doing this. I've been using godot for a fair bit of time but this is my first time looking into 3d so I don't get most diffrences and try to do things in same way I did in 2d so I'm sure this isn't the most efficient code.

Answer 1

It looks like held_item is not a PackedScene, which is what you call "instance()" on. You don't need to instance it as it is already an instance. Try using "duplicate()" instead.

Comments

Thank you, I now can delete node I want. But it still doesn't add it as a child. Any idea on why that can be

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What is your code?

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I just started this project so other that what I posted there is just movement code

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Yeah but what is your new code with duplicate

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Thank you but I think I found a better way to handle this. Again thank you so much for help