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gandalf3
I have a scene who’s root node takes some arguments at instantiation time (that is, in _init(arg1, arg2). Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to pass arguments to said node when instance()'ing the scene containing it.
If I just blindly call instance() anyway, it seems like the node is simply ignored. Is there a way to do this?
I had the same problem and solved it with a very ugly hack
There is currently no built-in way to pass arguments to a scene like that. You have to call a function of yours probably, like this:
var scene = preload("your_scene.tscn").instance()
scene.initialize(params) # init root node
add_child(scene)
There might be only one case where _init will be called, is when you do this:
var node = preload("your_script.gd").new(params)
add_child(node)
But for scenes, you have to go the other way.
Thanks, I did a preload("script.gd").new(arg1, arg2), where script.gd instantiates its child nodes in _ready(), and that indeed worked.
Is there any particular reason to use scenes instead of a script like this then? I suppose if you have custom collision shapes or some node which really wants to be set up with the editor, that might be a good reason to use a scene. Is that the only reason?
